250 Box Challenge
9:22 PM, Wednesday October 14th 2020
My last submission I had the wrong link posted... This other link is for the boxes I missed and so I had to post in their own collection. https://imgur.com/gallery/J4CkxY3
My last submission I had the wrong link posted... This other link is for the boxes I missed and so I had to post in their own collection. https://imgur.com/gallery/J4CkxY3
Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!
Before we begin I just want to mention that in the future, when you go to scan your homework submissions, it would be better to scan your homework using the "photo" setting instead of the "drawing" setting. The drawing setting tends to up the contrast on an image and can cause you to lose some of the subtlety in your line work.
You did a good job on the challenge overall. I can see that when you first started your lines had a lot more hesitation and wobbling to them. But as you progressed through the challenge your mark making steadily became more confident and your lines look straighter as a whole. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
I can see that with some of your boxes you attempted to add extra line weight to them, as mentioned here. But it does not look like you did this with any sort of consistency. That is why I would suggest that you add this step as a regular part of your warm ups. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines.
I do see that you while your mark making is more confident overall, you still struggle a bit with keeping your lines straight as you reach the end of where you want your mark. Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting. While it is important that you use the ghosting method of each mark you make while doing Drawabox one thing you can try to help with ending your marks closer to where you want them is lifting the pen off of the page rather than stopping the motion of your arm.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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