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250 Box Challenge

7:02 AM, Thursday May 21st 2020

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Hello,

I have finished the 250 boxes challenge and I am proud of it. I feel like I have improved from beginning to end. For me it was important to go till the end. I feel like I have understood something around page 17 or 18 (that is almost 200 boxes)! I may be wrong but I felt like it was more intuitive to me even though there are still some mistakes.

Well, I would really appreciate your thoughts about it.

Thank you very much for your time.

FloDx

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12:37 AM, Friday May 22nd 2020

it's easier if all the boxes are numbered individually, then we can critique a specific box. I was skimming and I noticed a couple of things, there isn't much variance to the box shape, it's good to practice different kinds of Y intersections, and I noticed not all of the boxes were extended in the right direction. There was one on page 11 I saw in particular, and then it got harder because not all of the faces were shaded that were facing the viewer. It's my understanding it's not required, but it's probably helpful. Seemed overall that you did a good job with keeping the vanishing points uniform, though.

2:41 PM, Friday May 22nd 2020

Thank you for your answer. It's right that at the beginning I made some mistakes about the extensions of the lines (not in the right direction) but I think I figured that out afterwards.

One thing that was difficult to me (and still is) was which side to shade when you see for instance 2 sides of the box and the side that is up. I wasn't able to say which face was closer to the viewer. It might look stupid but it really was a problem for me.

I don't understand, what do you mean by "different kins of Y intersections"? I did realize that my boxes all looked almost the same but with the Y method, I thought I didn't have many possibilities.

Thanks again for your critique.

4:02 PM, Friday May 22nd 2020

i'm not sure how to expain it, but when you make the initial 'Y', the angles facing the viewer should be one of those planes. The lines extend away, so the face that's on top facing the viewer will be a bit bigger because the perspective has it vanishing away in the distance- or at least that is my understanding.

What I meant by different Y intersections was changing the angle and length so you can practice with different style boxes. I'm not actually done with the challenge, so I'm not a TA or anything, just giving you my 2 cents based on what I saw when I scrolled through, but when you do boxes for warmups you can try different things.

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7:52 AM, Monday May 25th 2020

I agree with Dessert_Vixen, you have good improvement overall but some variety would help you understand the concepts a bit better! This tool gives you a random Y intersection to start with! I recommend you try around, 25 more boxes with this just to get a complete understanding of the concepts being taught here, and expand your skills!

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Like I said, 25 more boxes with randomized Y intersections to really flex those box drawing muscles! With how nice your boxes look you shouldn't have many problems with this :)

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