250 Box Challenge
2:12 PM, Wednesday May 26th 2021
I apologize for the poor quality on boxes 1-17.
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9:16 PM, Sunday June 13th 2021
Hi Ladboiking, Im gonna go through your submission.
Overall it looks like you did a good job on this challenge, I can see that you have improved on your convergences and confidence in your boxes as you progressed through the challenge. However, there are still some points I want to draw attention to so you can keep on the right track!
First of all, it looks like you are sometimes messing up the back corner, welcome to the club. Check this construction method next time you are warming up with some boxes.
One thing that really calls my attention is the weight that there is on the corners of your boxes, while using dots to help you figure out how your boxes converge is recommended, this are things that have to remain subtle, again, they are there to help us and give us a little boost, not to the exercise for us. Now whats done is done, but moving forward try to use less of this dots, which are really useful at this stage, but you need to grow to be able to draw boxes without them, and evne if you use them to help you out (which again, its not wrong) do it subtly.
Im really confused on the line quality on this challenge, while you manage to do confident lines and also I think you have applied line weight (which is great if its the case), you overall lines look like you have been using a half-dried-out felt tip pen or a ball point pen. If its the first case, remember to change them from time to time! And if its a ball point pen, while they are better than people who directly dont use ink, there is a reason behind using felt tip pens, this is because they have less range of the amount of ink they drop. The idea is to make your lines really visible so we can check ourselves if we are doing confident strokes, while the ball point pen makes it easier for people to be really shy about it and the do like a clean up pass on top so it looks good. So yeah, try to look for a felt tip pen if you are actually using a ball point pen, and if you cant do confident strokes.
I wanna mention that its good that even though you did some pages with really small boxes, that you then went back to doing big and confident ones. Always try to draw big, this not only makes it easier for using your whole shoulder for your lines, but it also makes it easier for your brain to engage on spatial problems!
All this said, you did a pretty solid job on this challenge, so Im gonna go ahead and mark it as completed! Keep up the good work.
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