250 Box Challenge
11:36 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
Finished the 250 Box Challenge. I feel like most of the boxes I drew were extremely similar and I still struggle to get the back corner to align correctly.
Hello, I have noticed the amount of uncommented responses in this lesson. I myself have just submitted the 250 box challenge and I thought I would respond to as many of these as possible to the best of my ability.
Most of your boxes' perspective lines are going in the right direction even if the back ones are more difficult to align. And keep in mind you drew 250 boxes some boxes are going to repeat, if they didn't they would start looking distorted. Although I would have loved to see more boxes with a long width and short height.
Here are some things you could works on:
You lines seem to very very wobbly and unstable. Make sure you are ghosting each edge of a box and make a confindent motion.
The hatching you did was either wobbly or poorly done without much effort. This is very easily fixable just think about it the next time you do such an exercise.
In general I think you did do good. As you said you struggeld to get the back corner aligned correctly but I could definitely see improvements on this aspect near the end. You will be great at boxes in no time if you keep practising!
Next Steps:
You have already started lesson two so I'm not sure how far you are. Boxes are fine so you don't need to do any extra work from this.
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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