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250 Box Challenge

12:11 PM, Tuesday June 1st 2021

250 Box challenge - Google Drive

250 Box challenge - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BZ7OyN4qq2ORYez0cKVJ3DCzH7gRAToJ

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Hi!

I would like to comment on a few things:

I have had a hard time avoiding distorting my boxes.

I feel like my boxes are very distorted. I think it's because I start with a random "y" and usually do it very close together on their axes.

I feel like the weight of the line is too much at times, I am aware of this and I am including 5 minutes of overlapping lines in all my warm-ups.

I have patience, I suppose it will be a matter of spending more time and many many terrible lines, but,

Do you think I'm on the right track?

and last question

Is it recommended that I include some boxes to do in my warm-ups?

To finish

Excuse my level of English, it is not my native language and thank you very much for your time, greetings!

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9:56 PM, Thursday June 3rd 2021

Hey there, your English is great so don't worry about that. I'll be handling your 250 box challenge critique.

In your submission you're doing some things really well but there are some notable mistakes as well.

Your line work is really tidy and confident, no complaints here. It's great to see you're experimenting with line weight as well as applying your hatching confidently and patiently all of which are great habits to be building.

The key issues with your submission however are you're not utilizing vanishing points correctly and you extend your lines in the wrong direction quite frequently. Take a look at this example, it shows how each line in a set relates to one another. Our lines should always converge away from the viewer, you often mix this up and have your lines diverging which is what results in your boxes becoming distorted. When it comes to vanishing points you can see that each line converges consistently towards it, the inner pair will be fairly similar while the outer pair can vary quite a bit depending how close/far the vanishing point is from the box. The further the vanishing point the more parallel our lines become but they should always be converging at least slightly due to perspective.

Overall you're showing good progress just a misunderstanding of some of the important concepts that this exercise were meant to help you become more comfortable with. For that reason I'll be asking you to draw some more boxes.

It was a bit tricky deciding how many I should have you draw because your line work is so well done and you're clearly putting in proper time and not rushing. I don't want to risk you burning out but I need to make sure you grow more comfortable with these concepts moving forward.

I'd like you to draw 25 more boxes and submit them when replying to this critique, I'll go over them and move you on to the next lesson once you've shown you're ready.

I feel like this will give you enough boxes to experiment with, try moving the vanishing point closer and further away and think about how your lines will behave in response. Remember that they should always converge towards these set vanishing points. You'll find your boxes end up distorting a lot less once you start to accomplish this consistently.

I know you can do this, remember to take your time.

I look forward to seeing your work.

Next Steps:

Please draw 25 more boxes.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
7:06 PM, Monday June 7th 2021

First of all: Thank you very much for your correction.

You asked me to do 25 boxes and I have done 75 and a few more. I am not proud of this.

I know that it is not good to grind the exercise, but my lines did not stop diverging and I have observed that mostly it is usually on the internal lines. I was a bit desperate. I feel like I understand the theory, but when making my boxes I can't prevent some lines from diverging, so I feel frustrated and have become a bit obsessed with this.

Since you asked me to make 25 boxes, I can understand that you do not want to correct 50 more boxes and for this reason I have generated two links. The first link is my last 25 boxes and the second link is the other 50.

I await your comment and the next steps to follow. Thanks for your time, greetings!

The last 25 Boxes

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--o3uKeumjdWLzJKFd5L4DdF-mJbnv8H

Other 50

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1--ppvifvzl9d1xGahgkVvbj0uKjiyKJz

1:06 AM, Tuesday June 8th 2021

So part of the reason your lines are diverging is that you're extending your vanishing points and correction lines in the wrong direction still.

I put this image together for you quickly. It points to a few of the boxes that are incorrect (25 page 1 as an example means it's from the 25 boxes first page in the link). I also wrote up a quick explanation and created an example of how you can use your initial Y to determine which way your box is orientated and know which way to extend your lines. Remember that they should always extend away from the viewer.

Definitely don't grind, do address your mistakes and do draw boxes and previous exercises in your warm ups but grinding for perfection will just lead to burn out which can take up even more time than if you paced yourself well to begin with.

We don't expect perfection and neither should you, you're learning. We just want to see your best attempts, I'm going to be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson because your boxes overall have improved you just need to address your line extensions.

Don't beat yourself up for your mistakes too much, good luck in lesson 2 and I look forward to seeing your future work.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
11:06 AM, Tuesday June 8th 2021

Hola Tofu!

I appreciate your help, and the effort in showing me the examples.

Me voy a tomar unos días libres, y revisaré atentamente los errores para solucionarlos, paso a paso y con mucha calma y paciencia en mis futuros calentamientos.

un tierno saludo!

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