Hi MartinCardalles, I've checked your submission.
Good job on completing the challenge, I can see a lot of improvement, your boxes get bigger, more confident, and you start hitting more convergences. Though, there are some things I want to draw attention so you can keep on the right path.
First off, I'm seeing that in a lot of cases you are arching your lines, I also saw that this is something you struggle with on your last lesson- As you may know it can be because you are using more of your elbow rather than your shoulder, or it can be just a natural tendency of yours. However, at this stage of the course, I always tell people with this issue that it's probably more related with not fully using your shoulder, try warming up with really long ghosted lines, where you will probably fail a lot, but you will be forced to use your shoulder!
In a lot of your boxes you are going back and repeating lines in order to correct them, fight this urge since you will not only make everything more messy in more complex constructions, but you will also need to start learning to stick to your mistakes and to understand that everything you can do to assure a good line is before the actual mark, on the ghosting stage.
I agree that you started small, but you did a great job on making your boxes bigger as you went on with the challenge. There are two big reasons why you want to draw big; First, you give yourself more space to use your whole shoulder and get more confident marks, and second, by drawing bigger, it's easier for your brain to engage on spatial reasoning problems like the ones you will be presented on this course (specially on lesson 3 +).
I'm gonna go straight to it, a lot of pages you did have the same boxes on them, I mean in inclination and rotation. Now, you probably learned a lot from this challenge, and I'm not taking you aways the merit of finishing this challenge- What I want you to remember is to not be afraid of experimenting things in this exercises (obviously between the bounds set by the instructions), there is a lot to learn from this course and you should be doing it by making mistakes, don't be afraid of them since they are the ones that will make other critiquers give you feedback on them so you can grow. So, as you move forward, try to catch yourself every time you are playing it safe and fight this urge, this is the place to make mistakes and if you can, have fun while doing them.
I'm noticing that you haven't really applied line weight on any of your boxes during the challenge, this is a common mistake, though le me clarify something. Line weight it's not an aesthetic choice from the course, hopefully as you move forward you will learn that is a tool we use to clarify how our forms relate with each other and (in this case) how they sit on 3d space- By highlighting the silhouette of your boxes, you are showing the viewer how those boxes are facing them in 3d space, this is also done with the hatching lines, which you need to take more time while doing them. I know how boring it sounds, but remember that the more careful practice you do, the easier and faster it will come out in the future, just remember that you need to practice first.
It seems like you are having trouble with the back corner, welcome to the club. Check this construction method next time you are warming up with some boxes.
One last thing, whenever you are guessing how one line is extending into the vanishing point, you should be taking into account all the other lines of the set of parallels into account, in this way you are checking how this line you are about to add relates to the other lines and you can guess more accurately! Here is a diagram of what I mean, I know how confusing it sounds and it's okay if you don't get it at first glance, just try to revisit the diagram from time to time and it will eventually click!
You did a good job on this challenge, so I'm gonna go ahead and mark it as completed! Keep up the good work.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move on to lesson 2.
Thank you for the Great and complete feedback! if you excuse me, I have just one question about the line weight, how should I make them?
I read again the text part of the lesson and saw videos of other people making this challenge, Until this day I guessed we would have to make them as a second line above the silhouette of the box, and If that's the case I don't know if I'm suppose to draw them fast or slow. (if it's fast, it will not superimpose the other line, and if it's slow it will become wobbly)
Should I use another fineliner to make them darker at first try? I'm still stuggling to understand the procedure.
Hi! Line weight should always be applied a a super imposed line (as you said), this implies that you need to ghost it and draw it confidently over worrying it it's accurate! And also, it's as you guessed, it's another line on top of a line that you want to clarify something. Here is a diagram that explains the basics!
Hope this was useful and good luck!
Noted, Thanks again!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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