250 Box Challenge
5:26 AM, Tuesday January 12th 2021
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9:00 AM, Wednesday April 21st 2021
Hello! Feedback for 250 boxes.
Linework - I can see your linework getting more confident as the challenge progresses, it becomes straighter and stronger. Well done! Unfortunately, the hatching on the box faces doesn't have the same care as the edges, they are a bit curved and some of them undershoot the edges. I like to treat hatching as another place to practice ghosting and drawing accurate lines from edge to edge - why not do it in future? (And please don't draw fanciful designs for the box faces, since it's not part of the lesson and doesn't demonstrate your learning anyway. Just stick to hatching!)
Box construction - Well done, the edges converge better as you made progress. You drew a variety of different shapes and perspectives, that variety gives great practice for your construction methods. The back corner will always be pesky, but it's not a big deal.
Overall your boxes looks good, they improved over time, and it appears you've understood the fundamentals of confident linework and how to build a box with correct 3-d perspective. Congrats on reaching the end of the gauntlet. When you've recovered from this box overload you can draw a few of them now and again during warmups, to keep that spatial understanding and construction fresh in your skills.
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12:57 AM, Thursday April 22nd 2021
Thanks so much for going through them and for the helpful feedback!
I'll use the hatching as more ghosting practice in the future, that's a great idea!
I'll also keep doing boxes as a warm up, I hadn't thought of that either!
I appreciate your time and thoughts!
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