I am so happy I have finally finished this challenge. It was tough and I cant look at boxes anymore;) I will be happy to move on to the next part. It took me a while, in the beginning I did 6 to 12 boxes a day. Then I had a break, and in the last few days I did 18-24 boxes a day just to get it done. I mean I still tried my best.
Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!
When I compare your early boxes to your final pages I can see that you made some good improvements to the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily became straighter and more confident looking as you progressed. You made good progress with how you apply extra line weight to your boxes. Your boxes are drawn at a good size and I can see that you took your time and put a lot of effort into this challenge. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
I recommend that you continue to try applying extra line weight to your boxes going forward. 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. Extra line weight should never be used to correct or hide mistakes. You can also read more about this here.
Finally while your converges do improve overall 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 your critique. The weight lines are still difficult for me and I practise ghosting and weight lines as my warm up. I guess it will take me some more time before master them. But I'm not giving up:) As you can imagine I am very happy to move forward. 250 challenge was a tough task but Im glas I managed to finish it. Im excited to move on to lesson 2:) Thank you:)
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).
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