250 Box Challenge
5:59 PM, Saturday January 9th 2021
Please critique as I would like to move on officially.
I would appreciate any comments. Thanks!
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7:04 PM, Monday January 11th 2021
How are you doing, SpellFire? I'm here to check your submission and give you feedback and some tips so you can improve even more. =)
Starting with your extended lines. This is a really important step that helps you understand the vanishing points, perspective and the relationship between lines/angles but you struggled a lot with this. You usually extended at least one set of lines to the wrong side. I assume that you used the Y method to build your boxes like it was explained on the website. This method is "beginner-friendly" because it also tells you in which direction to extend your lines! You should extend them from the center of your Y. This image should help you understand what I'm saying better. I'll use some of your boxes and show you the correct way to extend the lines.
Since you didn't extended your lines correctly, it's won't be as easy to me (or you) to check if the lines were converging or not. I can see some divergence on every box. That's due multiple factors such as not extending the lines correctly. I won't go in detail why since it's not worth at the moment. Also, you should draw boxes with that converge to one one and it seems that you were always aiming to draw boxes with the lines being parallel.
Moving on to hatching, when you are hatching your box, you should pick one VISIBLE side of your box and you there are many instances where you picked an inner side of the box. You drew boxes with 3 visible sides so as long as you hatch one of these three sides, it's perfectly fine. The hatching itself actually looks good. They're parallel lines and your lines aren't too wobbly. Remember to keep focusing on confidence over accuracy when doing lines/ellipses.
Line-weight is another problem. You forgot to do another line over the silhouette and the visible sides of the boxes like it was explained on the website. Remember to treat that as a ghosting exercise. You should reread the line-weight section on the website. Also, remember to be subtle when doing that! I don't want the lines to be too thick.
Another detail that I'd like to point out is the size of the boxes, your boxes are too small. Like really small. You should do 3-5 boxes per page but they should be bigger. You can check my submission to have a better idea on how big they should be (of course, look a the later pages).
Finally, the orientation of the boxes, almost all boxes were draw from the exact same angle. You should try different angles too! There is a "Y randomizer" on the website that gives suggestions for your boxes. You should try to use it too.
As you can see, there are many little mistakes that kept snowballing and as a result, I can't mark your submission as complete... :(
What I can do however is give some revisions to do! ;) You did many mistakes so I'll be asking you to do more boxes (probably a lot of boxes) and we'll work together to fix all of these problems. I don't want to overwhelm you with many boxes so I'll ask you to do 10 boxes for now and we'll fix each mistake one by one.
First, we'll work on the extension of your lines. I want you to do 10 boxes and make sure that you extended them in the correct direction. After you sent me those 10 boxes I'll ask you to do more boxes and I'll tell you to be careful about another mistake. But for now, I just want 10 new boxes extended correctly (and hatch a visible side of the box).
You can always send me a message on Discord to ask me questions about the Challenge.
JoaoSiilva#9754
Next Steps:
Do 10 new boxes being careful to extend the lines in the correct direction
2:01 AM, Wednesday January 13th 2021
Here are my first request revisions. Wow what amazing feedback, I truly appreciate you taking your time out to help me.
6:45 AM, Wednesday January 13th 2021
These are already looking much better. Just don't forget that the angles between of initial Y should all be bigger than 90 degrees. Otherwise there will be distortion (like your box #6). There are two boxes with an angle slightly smaller than 90 degrees.
Also, good job on drawing those boxes bigger! :)
For the next boxes I'll ask you to try more different angles. Try to use the Y randomizer that I had mentioned on my critique. And try to make the lines converge just a bit more. Your lines are either almost parallel or actually diverging a little.
Keep up the good job!
Next Steps:
More 15 boxes, this time having different angles and make them converge a bit more.
1:48 AM, Sunday January 17th 2021
I had to re-read the line-weight section as you suggested and your own critique, but I really believe I am beginning to understand some of the mistakes you have helped me clearly see so that I can improve. I tried very hard on the last few to focus on improving...
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