250 Box Challenge
8:54 PM, Thursday September 24th 2020
thank you so much for taking the time to look through my boxes. hopefully the link works
So right from the starting, very neat line work. The lines didn't converge a lot, but that gradually improved. Also, a tip for accuracy, draw the inner corner after drawing the Y (the bottom surface of the box). Try thinking of four parallel lines instead of just two. I don't have a problem with much else, your boxes are solid, which is the aim. Hope you see boxes in your dreams!
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson two.
Alright, thanks for the feedback! I'll keep that in mind.
To add to what lemons said, by the end of the challenge (last 100 boxes or so) you end up focusing on extreme perspective a lot. Keep in mind that most of the boxes of the challenge should be done in shallow perspective as it's more common, so I would have liked to see some of those by the end of it, try to focus on them on your next warmups.
As for the convergences, extend them all the way through, don't worry about them colliding with other boxes. Doing this will make it a lot easier to localize your mistakes, example.
Boxes are pretty varied in general, so great in that regard, I recommend you to do some really big boxes though (1 box or 2 boxes per page), as you haven't done them on the challenge.
Your convergences are pretty good by the end of it, but take a look at this just in case you haven't seen it yet, it's basically about what lemon said of thinking about 4 parallel lines instead of just 2, but explained more thoroughly.
In general pretty solid job! You've improved a great deal over the challenge and the boxes end up pretty good in general so I recommend getting started on the advanced boxes exercises already, good luck on lesson 2 and keep it up!
Alot of these points i was completely unaware of. Thanks for shedding some light. I'll try to cover them as best as I can.
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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