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250 Box Challenge

7:30 PM, Sunday August 16th 2020

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Six boxes per page, totaling 42 pages, which adds up to 252 boxes.

I made sure to check each page with my ruler to ensure the lines were converging properly and checking my previous pages for common errors. I'm not the first to admit this was a challenging process, and it took me a while to complete this assignment. I believe I am starting to get the idea of 3D space with these boxes and seeing where my biggest mistakes are at. I will definitely need to do more practice in rotating the boxes.

I figure adding a box drawing here and there during my daily warm up drawings will help me to continue to practice drawing these boxes freehand and get that back corner to be correct.

Otherwise, any feedback or advice is always appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

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2:41 PM, Wednesday December 23rd 2020

Hi NothingUnique45,

I've checked your submission,

There is a couple things I want to comment on your work, though it's pretty clear that you took advantage of this challenge and this is visible in how your boxes get better as you progress through the challenge.

First of all, I see that you are missing the back corner the most of the other ones, welcome to the club. Try out this construction method whenever you decide to warm up with some boxes.

Something that caught my eye was the amount of dots you used to help your construction, though you really lowered their use moving forward, it struck me a little. Remember that this kind of tools are used to give you some help, not to guess, though as I've already said, it seems like you've already realized this on your own.

Another thing that I see is that you didn't used line weight in a consistent way, sometimes you would apply with very thick lines, and sometimes you wouldn't apply it at all. Remember that line weight it's a subtle tool that we have to communicate things to the viewer, in this case, which lines form the visible contours of the box!

One last thing, next time take more time when hatching your lines on the visible faces of your boxes, they really lower the quality of your already confident-goodlooking boxes!

I'm gonna mark this challenge as completed! Keep it up.

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Move on to lesson 2.

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1:26 AM, Friday December 25th 2020

Hello Weijak,

Thank you for the feedback. I will definitely incorporate the construction method you have linked whenever I do my warm ups when drawing freehand boxes. Hopefully one day, I will master the back corner. lol.

I will definitely keep in mind the other points you have listed in your helpful critique. : )

Thank you again for your time and advice,

NothingUnique45

7:09 PM, Friday December 25th 2020

I'm glad you found it useful!

Keep it up.

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