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9:19 PM, Monday August 15th 2022

Right off the bat, I noticed that a lot of your boxes look very similar to each other. Many of your boxes have the same orientation from box #42 and onwards.

I saw that you wrote notes describing speed challenges that you were giving yourself. The challenge may have seemed easier for you because you weren't rotating your boxes very much after #42. Try changing the angles of your initial "Y" to get different orientations. I didn't see any mention of "speed" in the instructions, which tells me that isn't a part of the challenge/lesson. Instead, there is an advanced section for box exercises that challenge perspective (not speed).

Lastly, I also noticed that there were several areas where you would try to fix a bad line by redrawing it. This is bad, as it makes the line messier. You are better off leaving the inaccurate line alone. Remember, confidence over accuracy, every time.

I think that you will have to make some more boxes. Make sure that they all have different orientations as shown here. I think you would also benefit from using this tool advertised on the challenge's instruction page.

Next Steps:

100 Boxes

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
11:38 AM, Tuesday August 16th 2022
edited at 11:58 AM, Aug 16th 2022

Thanks for the reply and your totally right. I think i made the boxes this way because i see it as cleaner. But that does not follow the homework. Im going to do at least another 100.

edited at 11:58 AM, Aug 16th 2022
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3:37 AM, Tuesday August 16th 2022

Greeting TastyArt! Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!

First off, the lines of the boxes are consistent however there are some boxes that seem to be drawn again in an attempt to fix the boxes, ex: Box #169, #165, #188, #209, #213. One recommendation that you should take throughout your journey on Draw A Box is not to focus on the minor mistakes too much and just keep the line where it is, you could also use the ghosting method to be more cautious of where your line is gonna be.

Though your boxes have different L x W x H, one major problem is that all of your boxes after #42 stay in the same orientation, throughout your challenge, your boxes stand in the same angle and position. I recommend changing the angle of the "Y" before creating your box. For example, you can make the "Y" at a 50-degree angle so the box can have a different orientation.

Another problem is that most of your box lines do not converge, as the challenge requires the box lines to converge, whether slightly or dramatically. You can use your initial "Y" as a reference for converging. Each side of the box converges into one of the 3 lines of the "Y". For example https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png, these lines are converging into one of the Y lines so they can go into one vanishing point. This will be applied with the other 2 "Y" lines as those others will converge into the vanishing point of the other 2 "Y" lines.

I recommend doing 15 more boxes, use your beginning boxes 1-41, as references for your 15 boxes.

So the 3 things you should do while making the boxes are:

**Line Confidence

Line Convergence

"Y" Orientation**

Next Steps:

Draw 15 more boxes.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
11:42 AM, Tuesday August 16th 2022
edited at 11:58 AM, Aug 16th 2022

Thanks for the reply and your totally right. I think i made the boxes this way because i see it as cleaner (except where i kept changing or going over the lines). But that does not follow the homework. Im going to do at least another 100.

edited at 11:58 AM, Aug 16th 2022
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