250 Box Challenge
9:52 PM, Monday May 4th 2020
I forgot the 6-8 boxes per page and thought 10 was right until i saw other posts :( now it just seems too tight.
Looking at your boxes, they show a lot of care and time spent, but I think you misunderstood the general direction of this assignment. A lot of your boxes seem to be drawn in 1 point perspective, which isn't the point of this exercise. Most obvious examples of one point perspective boxes to me are boxes 2, 3, 45, 58 (and many more). There are a few boxes drawn well in 3-point perspective though, (box 36, 43, 47). I think this might just be you trying to differentiate and make a bunch of different boxes, however, all of these boxes should be drawn in 3-point perspective. The variability comes in where the vanishing points are on the boxes, rather than the type of perspective used. I think the most clear example of this is on box 58.
Impressively, the parallel lines of the box are very well done, but you're losing out on the valuable practice of ghosting lines to an implied vanishing point. Aside from a few boxes that I think suffer from some distortion issues (see https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/7/distortion), most of them are immediately recognizable. The effort this challenge requires makes me feel as though it would be inappropriate of me to direct you to try to tackle it again, as I feel it'd be better for your overall progress to try to continue on with the lessons.
My personal recommendation would be to review the lecture on perspective (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/6). Rather than grinding away at another 250 boxes, I think it'd be best to incorporate at least a few boxes (**in three point perspective**) into your warm-up exercises. If you're not warming up already, take a few exercises from the previous homework assignments and repeat them for your warm up. I'd suggest incorporating this challenge into that warm up, drawing 3-5 boxes a day to solidify the concepts this challenge is meant to reinforce.
I'll mark this challenge as complete.
Next Steps:
From here, I'd recommend going on to lesson two. Incorporating this challenge into daily warm ups.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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