250 Box Challenge
4:54 PM, Saturday June 12th 2021
this took me 2 months and i learned alot from this thanks for the critique :)
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8:59 PM, Tuesday June 15th 2021
Hello ImNate, congratulations on tackling the 250 box challenge! Time for some feedback.
Linework-
I can see you applying the ghosting method to draw your lines all the way through the challenge, and you've made huge progress in terms of both confidence and accuracy with your lines over the course of the challenge. Scrolling through your pages, the improvement is honestly quite remarkable, well done!
I can see you taking the time to add line weight round the silhouette of your boxes using a single super imposed stroke and your execution of this also improves as you go through the challenge.
I'm pleased to see that you decided to hatch a front face of your boxes starting from #67 and on the whole you've done a pretty good job with it. Just remember to draw your hatching lines with the same care as your construction lines, using the ghosting method.
Box Construction-
Line Extentions You've done a great job of extending your lines to check your work, and more importantly I see you actually analysing what they show you and using that to improve your work, excellent.
Convergences As a result your convergences go from good to great as you progressed through the challenge. It's very impressive!
Foreshortening You've shown a good variety of foreshortening on your boxes, I see you doing a fair bit of experimenting and exploring while trapped in box-purgatory, it looks like you really made the most of this challenge. I would suggest that when you practice these in the future (as you'll be adding this exercise to your pool of warmups, oh boy, what a treat!) you focus more on boxes with shallow foreshortening, as being able to draw them well will come in handy in the later lessons on the course.
Box Orientations Again, it looks like you did plenty of experimenting here, I see a lot of variation with the proportions of the boxes you drew, and the angles you drew them from, good work.
Conlcusion-
Overall, your challenge tells a story of growth and improvement. While you did make the odd mistake, that is inevitable with Drawabox, and it looks to me like you learnt a great deal. As you already learnt from each mistake and applied your new knowlege on the next page I really don't have much more to say, except congratulations! Please move on to lesson 2, and good luck on your journey.
Next Steps:
Feel free to move on to lesson 2.
11:31 AM, Wednesday June 16th 2021
Thankyoufor the critique dio, and i did slack off alot on the hatching lines thanks for pointing that out. Thanks for being awesome :)
6:45 PM, Wednesday June 16th 2021
Happy to help :-)
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