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250 Box Challenge

9:56 AM, Sunday November 29th 2020

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Hi, I just finished the 250 box challenge two days ago. I realized I should have submitted maybe 50 by 50 on discord instead of submitting the entire thing once done, but now it's too late so :/ Anyway, I feel like I've improved at estimating convergence and that I learned a few things about vanishing points and horizon line.

Some of thoses boxes are pretty rough/unclean and I apologize for that, I had to change pen multiple time because it was drying out and I couldn't find another feltip pen, so some of the boxes are a bit scratchy.

I hope that despite that I did ok and that I can move on to the next lesson. What do you guys think ?

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1:48 AM, Tuesday January 5th 2021
edited at 1:51 AM, Jan 5th 2021

Hello! Feedback for 250 Boxes.

Linework - Crisp, clean and straight from start to finish. It looks like you have developed great confidence in your linework, well done! You may or may not have done this (bit hard to tell from photos), but you can add additional lineweight to the silhouette (outer edges) of the box to give it a bit more sense of volume, and this is also good practice for ghosting/drawing superimposed lines. If there's anything to nitpick, the hatching looks a bit more wobbly than the box construction. It's not a big deal, but I encourage you to use hatching as another method of practicing drawing ghosted lines with confidence.

Overall great work. This strong linework will serve you well moving forward into the next lessons.

Box construction - Well done. You drew a variety of different shapes and perspectives, that variety gives great practice for your construction methods. All the edges are also converging well (the back corner will always be pesky, but it's not a big deal).

I don't have a lot to say because the boxes looks great, and it appears you've understood the fundamentals of confident linework and how to build a box with correct 3-d perspective. Congrats on reaching the end of the gauntlet. When you've recovered from this box overload you can draw a few of them now and again during warmups, to keep that spatial understanding and construction fresh in your skills.

Next Steps:

You're ready for Lesson 2.

And why not join in giving community feedback to Lesson 1 and 250 Boxes, since it helps you improve your understanding of the techniques you've learnt. Elodin has made guides for giving feedback here: https://pastebin.com/u/elodab

This community member feels the lesson should be marked as complete. In order for the student to receive their completion badge, this critique will need 2 agreements from other members of the community.
edited at 1:51 AM, Jan 5th 2021
4:29 PM, Tuesday January 5th 2021

Thanks for the critic ! I've done drawabox multiple times in the past, that's why my lines look clean I guess, all these times I worked in a vacuum so I wanted to do it properly for once.

Thank you for the tips as well, I tried ghosting a few off these hatching lines but sometimes I mess up which is something that's bound to happen I guess. I'll try to keep in the habit to do at list a box or two to warm-up.

As you asked, I will give 5 critics for lesson 1 I just didn't had the time to do it yet.

Thanks again

3:28 AM, Wednesday January 6th 2021

You're welcome. The Discord server has plenty of people who can give feedback in the lesson channels, plus it's nice to be doing the exercises with other people too. Hope you can join in.

Thanks for helping out with the 5 critiques too, it takes a bit of time at first to write a crit but they become less difficult after you do a few of them. Thank you!

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