Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did a good job overall. I can see that by the end of the challenge your mark making really improved! Your lines are consistently straighter and more confident looking. You also showed a lot of improvement with adding extra line weight to your boxes. I can see that you varied your boxes too. You have a lot of different sizes and types of foreshortening going on. Lastly, when I compare your early boxes with your final pages I can see that you do a much better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points.
While your added line weight does improve and blend more seamlessly with your previous marks by the end, there is still some room for improvement. 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 previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. You also don't need to add that extra weight to the back corner of your boxes. If you look at this example here, you can see in the accompanying image that the back corner of the box is not meant to have weight added to it for this exercise. In general if you add that extra line weight to the back corner you undo a bit of the work that weight is supposed to do.
Finally, your convergences do show a lot of overall improvement, but I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. 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.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
Thank you for the critique, it's very helpful!
I did have trouble adding line weight and getting the two lines on top of each other. The second point about the middle lines helps - I was kind of aware of this and just hoping I'd get better at it by the end but I often found one of the 4 lines ended up going off in the wrong direction.
When it comes to technical drawing, there's no one better than Scott Robertson. I regularly use this book as a reference when eyeballing my perspective just won't cut it anymore. Need to figure out exactly how to rotate an object in 3D space? How to project a shape in perspective? Look no further.
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