50-100 boxes
https://imgur.com/gallery/Qo5ql62 101-150 box https://imgur.com/gallery/aFfql54 151-200 box https://imgur.com/gallery/8bQFboK 201-250 box https://imgur.com/gallery/bKIpgok
Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!
From what I can see your line work is fairly well done and your boxes are coming along well. I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
I noticed that you drew many of your boxes quite small. Part of the reason for the 5-6 boxes per page rule is so that students have enough room to draw their boxes larger while having room to check their convergences. Drawing bigger also helps engage your brain's spatial reasoning skills, whereas drawing smaller impedes them. This, along with varying your foreshortening and orientations of your boxes will help you get the most out of the exercise. Drawing smaller can also make it more difficult for you to draw confidently from the shoulder, which can lead to hesitation in your mark making.
Just remember that the confidence of the stroke is far and away your top priority. Once your pen touches the page, any opportunity to avoid mistakes has passed, so all you can really do is push through. Hesitation serves no purpose. Mistakes happen, but a smooth, confident mark is still useful even if it's a little off. Accuracy is something that you will improve on as you continue working through Drawabox and practice ghosting.
I would also recommend that you also try adding extra line weight to your boxes as an added step. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your original mark. This will allow you to create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines that reinforces the illusion of solidity in your boxes/forms. I recommend that you try adding your extra line weight in no more than 1-2 pases.
Extra line weight should never be used to correct or hide mistakes. You can also read more about this here. Something to keep in mind as well, when you are working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes.
I did notice that you were checking your convergences incorrectly for some of your boxes. Checking your convergences is an important step so you should always take your time and make sure you are extending your sets of lines correctly. Your sets of lines should extend away from the viewer and towards their vanishing points. You can refer to the diagrams in this link if you are ever confused or uncertain.
I see that throughout many of your boxes, you appear to have purposely tried to keep your sets of lines parallel on the 2D page, drawing them all to an "infinite" vanishing point. As explained in this section, because these boxes are oriented with us looking at the corner of the box, we should be drawing it in 3 point perspective - meaning with 3 concrete vanishing points, each set of lines converging towards a real point in space, even if that point is far off and the convergence is gradual.
Finally while your converges do improve overall, with the boxes you didn't keep parallel, I think this diagram will help you as well. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Before moving onto lesson 2 I am going to have you draw 50 additional boxes. I will be looking to see you drawing your boxes at a larger size and checking to make sure all of your sets of lines are converging towards their shared vanishing points as I described above. Make sure you visit every link I have left for you and reread the challenge instructions in their entirety before beginning your revisions.
Next Steps:
50 additional boxes as described in the critique.
here is the 50 boxes sir also i use a longer paper than last time.
https://imgur.com/gallery/2ETJBFm https://imgur.com/gallery/hfgo02C
This is a good improvement! Your sets of lines are doing a good job of converging consistently towards their shared vanishing points and your mark making is looking smoother and more confident overall.
Just remember that when you go to add extra line weight, the internal lines should always be thinner than the lines that make up the silhouette (external lines). This includes the corner that faces the viewer.
So if you added one extra pass of line weight to the corner that faces the viewer, you would want at least two passes on the silhouette of the box.
I am going to mark this lesson as complete and you can now move onto lesson 2.
Good luck!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
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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