250 Box Challenge
12:10 AM, Thursday December 28th 2023
Finally done! Took me a couple months and what feels like longer trying to upload it.
Hi, I'll be critiquing your work today.
First of all, congrats on making it through this challenge! It's a lot of work, and persevering through it all is a great way to apply the first lesson.
Onto the critique:
There was clear improvement as you progressed. You rarely had any mistakes show up again after you addressed them.
There was a great variety in boxes. Drawing boxes can be rather unimaginative and repetitive, so it was good that you actively went against that.
Hatching the front face of your boxes demonstrates your thinking in 3D and how the box fits into the scene.
A lot of thought was put into the placement of the back corner, which is great.
The lines for many boxes overshoot just a little. It's not ever a large amount, but it is a somewhat consistent problem. Consider slowing down or rotating the page to be able to visually see the end dot.
Some of the boxes are really small. Ideally, each page has 5-6 boxes that are evenly spaced. This is not a big issue since it is fairly inconsistent, but some pages have 8 boxes of varying sizes and that makes it very difficult to visually parse.
Some lines were repeated that should not have been repeated. This was in certain boxes in the initial Y, which was directly stated to not have any added line weight. Recall that this course actively encourages continuing with your mistakes.
The line weight on the edges of the box were often not overlapping. Remember to properly ghost your lines until confident, as rushing them often leads to inaccurate/wobbly lines.
The hatching lines are rather sloppy. Ideally, each line starts and ends in on the box's edges and are straight. There are many instances where these are not the case, and it greatly detracts from the purpose of the hatching lines. Two particularly egregious examples are boxes number 137 and 244. The same advice in the previous item applies here.
This is a recommendation, but consider using different colours of pens to do the extensions. On page 38, for example, it is very difficult to tell which line extension belongs to which box.
Overall, I believe you should consider the fundamentals when adding line weight. Most boxes themselves are good, so it's just the extras that need to be addressed. I would like to see a page of boxes with that in mind, say a page you'd do for warmup, then you can move on.
Next Steps:
A page of boxes with proper hatching and line weight added (see https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/lineweight)
Sorry about some of the wonky extensions I dont have a larger straightedge at the moment.
Good work. I am marking this as complete.
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
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