250 Box Challenge
3:40 AM, Wednesday June 30th 2021
Finally the challenge is completed
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7:37 AM, Thursday July 1st 2021
It seems like you haven't extended the lines for most of the boxes which is an integral part of the excersise.
What I can say about the pages which actually have had the lines extended, is that a lot of them are already pretty good.
A bit of advice that worked for me was to try and visualize how the face of the box you are making a line for would end up looking, and trying to think about whether opposite faces of the box would look consistent (their proportions stay more or less the same).
Next Steps:
Go back and extend all of the lines for all the boxes and afterwards go back and analyze causes for mistakes.
After the analysis do a couple pages of boxes with your previous mistakes in mind making sure to extend lines towards vanishing points and having them converge as correctly as possible.
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