250 Box Challenge

9:04 AM, Monday August 16th 2021

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Hello!!

I am posting my 250 Box Challenge for the official critique now as I had had it reviewed by a community member before pledging. Therefore, there are 50 additional boxes included at the end. I am looking forward to seeing where I can improve on this one.

Really appreciate you guys looking at my work and Drawabox as a whole! Thank you!

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3:27 AM, Thursday August 19th 2021
edited at 3:49 AM, Aug 19th 2021

Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

  • Your lines are looking smoothly and confidently drawn, good work.

  • You're keeping your hatching lines evenly spaced and tidy rather than rushing them on to the page.

  • While not a requirement you're trying to implement line weight which is great. It often takes a fair bit of mileage to become comfortable using it so getting an early start working with it is a good idea.

  • It's nice to see that you're experimenting with orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is an important habit to form because it helps us develop a better understanding of new concepts.

  • Overall your convergences have become more consistent with fewer distorted boxes being created from diverging lines.

Things you can work on:

  • There's room for you to experiment with proportions more, currently your boxes become fairly similar towards near the end of the challenge and in your additional 50 boxes.

  • There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

Overall while you did make some mistakes your boxes are looking pretty solid so far with noticeable improvement and with more mileage you'll continue this trend and become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
edited at 3:49 AM, Aug 19th 2021
7:53 AM, Thursday August 19th 2021

Thank you very much for your critique! I'll try to keep those points in mind!

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