250 Box Challenge
6:33 PM, Friday July 28th 2023
I used a scanner which is why its so bright and sharp. I have completed the challenge...FINALLY!!
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6:56 PM, Tuesday August 15th 2023
Hello, I'm here to critique your 250 Box Challenge submission.
First, you should be proud you finished the challenge. Drawing 250 boxes is no small feat and proves your dedication to improvement.
Your lines are well-done. They are clearly ghosted and don't arc or wobble. You have no issues with over- or undershooting your lines.
It is good you added the optional line weight. It is very useful in later exercises. While these lines were at first inaccurate, they were drawn with confidence and clearly improved over time. The optional hatching had issues with frequently overshooting, but this is not an issue in later boxes.
Your box construction improves greatly throughout the challenge. It is clear at about 15 or so boxes, you began to pay close attention to the checking lines and what it said about your box's structure. While physical notes are by no means necessary, they're good to see as evidence of rigorous and active learning. The orientations and dimensions of the boxes were practice in variety. It is clear you experimented with various degrees of convergence, giving you a wide range of practice. I would recommend trying to keep this degree more consistent on all three axes of the box, or at least changing which axis is extremely dramatic. The extension heading right tends to be very dramatic.
Your back corners frequently diverge, which is to be expected. In the 200s of the challenge, the back corner's accuracy improves exponentially. If you haven't already, you may want to try this method to improve your understanding of a box's lines as one big relationship:
You do frequently have issues with taller boxes converging in pairs of VPs on a single side, such as Boxes 103, 104, 130, 131, 208, 226, and 232. Keep an eye on the back corner and also the convergence of the further edge. The further edge tends to be a little slow in converging, like in the set heading upwards in Box 153.
I remind you not to cram boxes onto one page and to experiment with varying the size of your boxes. There should be four to five boxes a page. The later pages still look like they were still completed with care, but it is easier to construct small boxes and they are probably less useful to you later on. You're going to need to go through a lot of paper to get better at drawing.
Next Steps:
Lesson 2 is next.
12:38 PM, Wednesday August 16th 2023
Hello, thank you for the critique ????.
I'm truly grateful for it and I'll keep all of what you said in mind.
Also, I forgot to say this but when I reached box 186 I started using my sketchbook which is a3 paper bcs I ran out of a4 printer paper. So bcs the sketchbook was double the size, I decided to do double the boxes. It might look smaller on photo but the boxes are all pretty much the same reasonable size. However I will try to experiment with different sizes bcs most of my boxes were the same.
Once again thank you for your input, it means a lot ????
2:23 PM, Wednesday August 16th 2023
I understand the change in box composition now. I'm glad to help you out, I wish you luck in your learning moving forward to Lesson 2.
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