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1:22 PM, Monday May 11th 2020
Hey there shatha, big congrats on finishing 250 boxes. This is no small feat and should always be met with praise as well as critique.
You have made some good progress throughout this challenge. Your sense of space and form have improved greatly and you are doing pretty well tracking your vanishing points. On the other hand a lot of your boxes are very small which makes that easier. Your hatching is also a bit haphazard and rushed which takes away from the overall solidity of the forms, so keep that in mind.
In terms of convergences, like I said with small boxes it is easier to keep everything consistent, but we don't normally draw such small boxes. We even make a point to instruct students to keep their boxes scaled to 5-6 per page. This is because larger boxes have their own set of challenges and it's more difficult to track the convergences. Take this infographic for instance. As it shows, as the vanishing points get further away, the angles between these lines changes. Additionally as your lines get longer it becomes trickier to track the subtle changes in angles necessary for good perspective.
So before I can mark your challenge as complete I need 30 more boxes at the appropriate scale listed in the instructions. I will give you further critique based on these, but there is only so much I can explain when all of your boxes are small and you aren't running into the problems I need you to be.
Next Steps:
Keep up the good work in varying your orientations and scales, just draw them larger this time, please.
3:40 PM, Friday May 29th 2020
8:32 PM, Sunday May 31st 2020
These boxes are looking much better. Your sense of space has continued to improve and you are handling converging lines well for the most part. You still have some skewing going on, so going back to the infographic I posted on your last critique, let's talk about parallel lines in perspective a little bit. The key take away is you must look at all of these lines in tandem and as anything about them changes (a line or the vanishing point) everything changes and adapts. This means you must be thinking about and looking at all your parallel lines simultaneously and take into account the interior angles as your draw. For example, students often draw boxes one plane at a time. They do the first plane making sure all of the lines are converging well then they move on to the next plane drawing that one with no regard to the lines they previously put down. This results in two points of convergence isntead of the one vanishing point. It definitely is tricky at first to "step back" and view all of the lines in tandem, but with mindful practice it does get more intuitive and everything falls into place.
I will now be marking your challenge as complete and you are free to move on to lesson 2. Keep up the good work and remember to keep practicing boxes in your warmups.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
1:29 AM, Monday June 1st 2020
Thank you very much
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