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250 Box Challenge

12:26 PM, Wednesday June 3rd 2020

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Post with 2 votes and 13 views. Shared by basiltheogre. 250 Box Challenge

As always, my work is done in Procreate with 2 brushes only: a monoweight pen for all regular lines with no smoothing or pressure curve, and a super thin liner with ruler assist on for checking constuction afterwards. I work in Procreate due to financial and mobility limitations.

As this will never be "officially" graded, i did have a little fun with a couple pages, to break the monotony.

Thanks for critiquing. Enjoy.

p.s. Final page used perspective assist. (i.e. a ruler nailed to the vanishing points).

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1:28 PM, Wednesday June 3rd 2020

My main issue I have is that you sometimes tend to keep your lines too parallel to each other, not in the idea of 3D space, but actually physically parallel on your paper. That way there's no convergence at all, and this is especially evident in your last page. I feel that you should aim for at least some degree of convergence, even if it involves shallow foreshortening, which is something you should be aiming for the most. That way you get to practice estimating your convergences without drawing the actual vanishing points.

Another issue I have is that you sometimes leave out your extending lines when checking your convergences. For instance in boxes 184 to 194, you haven't included them. I feel that the more you use those lines, the more you can learn from your mistakes since this means you can have a look back at every single box you drew earlier on and point out your patterns. Also, make sure to extend your lines in all directions and not just one like you have been doing every now and then. You'll learn more this way.

Try to keep your lines straight and smooth, if possible that is. I understand that you have mobility limitations, so just do the best you can if your ability is affected by it.

I recommend using different colored pens for your extension lines so that it becomes easier for you and us to distinguish your convergence lines from one another. I'm not sure if Procreate has that option though, so you can only do with what you've got.

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Feel free to move onto lesson 2. I would recommend practicing drawing some more boxes for the next few days if you can so that you can further improve your skills. Otherwise, good job for completing the challenge!

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1:51 PM, Wednesday June 3rd 2020

Thanks for the critique.

The last page is absolutely not parallel. Ive double checked. :)

In those places where i didnt draw every single convergence, i simply decided i didnt need to because it was obviously VERY wrong, or so close that it didnt matter. I drew the major side to show the mistakes, no need to beat the dead horse.

Im not sure what you mean by different colors. some pages each box was a different color, other pages each side was a different color. Whenever i had boxes close together, i used different colors....

Im also not sure what you mean about lots of parallel pages. every single page had some degree of forshortening, from slight to extreme.

Again, thanks for the critique. I know that i do get a little lazy with keeping my lines straight and confident, especially if Im getting tired on a particular day. I also sometimes get a little too fast and loose with the hatching. I will defs keep practising a LOT. :)

One thing i learned was that sometimes, the accuracy of convergence was less important than the overall direction of the entire page (if for example one is drawing a cohesive scene). It seems that as long as the boxes make sense, and they all 'tend' towards similar VPs, then minor mistakes fade away.

I did learn a LOT doing these. Fun fun.

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