250 Box Challenge
9:54 PM, Sunday September 5th 2021
Reupload, because the first time I managed to potato-ify the images.
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5:14 AM, Thursday September 9th 2021
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.
Things you did well:
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Your lines are looking smoothly and confidently drawn.
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When hatching you're putting in the time to keep your lines evenly spaced rather than just rushed out on to the page.
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You're experimenting with proportions, orientations and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is an important part of the learning process and helps us develop a better understanding of the concepts we're practicing. I hope you continue to build this habit in the future as well.
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Overall your convergences are beginning to look more consistent.
Things you can work on:
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While not a requirement of the challenge I do think that you should begin practicing implementing line weight in your warm ups. It takes a bit of mileage before most people find themselves comfortable applying it and it's a very helpful tool that we'll be making use of in the upcoming lesson material. The sooner you begin practicing the sooner you'll see positive results.
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There's still room for you to experiment with rates of foreshortening more, you tend to keep your vanishing points far away and try to make your lines as parallel as you can.
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There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.
The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.
Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.
Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
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