Hi,
What can I say, very long. Didn't have time to do the 50% rule, now i'm going to draw for fun before lesson 2 (if I pass this one ;) ).
I think i got better. Something happened after the 150 i think. My line are not perfect but I'm improving. I think the problem is aiming when the vanishing point is far. At the end i started putting my VPs and after the "Y" and then drawing the cube, I hope it's not bad.
Again thank you for everything.
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.
Things you did well:
Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn when you aren't redrawing them.
You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, and proportions. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.
Things you can work on:
Try not to redraw when you make a mistake, part of why we work with ink is so that we're forced to work with our mistakes. Redrawing doesn't erase them and instead just creates a mess.
When hatching you want to have both ends of the lines touching an edge of the form they're being drawn on rather than being left floating. Usually when left floating like this it's caused by people hesitating while worrying about accuracy. Remember to take your time to space each line with the ghosting method, and then draw them confidently just like any other line, accuracy will improve with more mileage.
Line weight isn't a requirement of the challenge but I do recommend practicing it in your future attempts. It's an incredibly useful tool but one that people often require a fair bit of mileage before they feel comfortable applying it. The sooner you start to build up that mileage the sooner you'll see better results.
I'd like you to experiment with rates of foreshortening more. Around half way through the challenge you stop pushing your vanishing points further away and keep them quite close. This makes your lines converge dramatically. Be sure to get more experience working with further vanishing points and lines that are closer to parallel as well. You've shown you're capable of doing so earlier in the challenge however so I'm not worried about you not understanding how to do so.
There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.
The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.
Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.
Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
Hey thank you for your critic and remarks.
I agree with with everything you said. The redraw part is usually because I don't ghost enough, sometimes I'm too confident, I need to keep working on that.
For the hatching part, it's actually my bad. I didn't think it is something important and I didn't them with my wrist quickly. I will do them properly when training and practicing the boxes.
For the line weight, I didn't practice that part. I think I was way to focused on the converging and drawing the line. I guess with 100 more boxes i would be able to make progress there. I'll keep that in mind for sure.
I agree that I did stop pushing the vanishing point at a certain point but that's because I wasn't able to draw on my white desk. With my white desk I used to put the vanishing points literally on it, but with a black desk it was harder. I will do it when I get back to my office.
For the last part, I think I need to practice more. 250 boxes is a lot, but for someone like me I think I need more, at least 350.
Thank you again for your review and for your time.
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