250 Boxes complete! It was challenging, frustrating, confusing at times. Must admit i still fail to visualize and rotate a box in my imagination, and my boxes are not perfect even after all those hours of drawing them. Maybe i`m missing something, or it is normal you tell me :) Really looking forward for next lessons. If you see a glaring issue with my boxes please tell me, i would really appreciate it! Best of luck with your lessons!
Congratulations on finishing the box challenge!
About what you said, that's totally normal, you're not expected to draw perfect boxes when you finish this challenge. You're expected to keep drawing boxes on warmups, and even in the cylinder challenge you're made to do 100 more boxes to get more practice, so don't worry about it.
Overall you've done a pretty good job. You end up with pretty good lines, and your convergences improve as well. I think you tried to focus a bit by the end on doing parallel lines in your boxes. Don't forget that parallel lines can't happen in 3 point perspective. Even if it's super slight, they have to converge, so don't draw parallel lines.
I've seen you correct and cross some lines. No matter how off a line is, don't repeat it, leave it as it is. Correcting it will only make the drawing less clear, and harder to read.
And lastly, you seem to still have a few problems with the inner corner, this is completely normal, most people still have trouble with them. I made this demo to show another method to approach drawing boxes. Instead of completing first the outline of the box, you draw the inner corner before, as it's shown, in the fourth step. This helped me in figuring out the inner corner issue and hopefully it helps to you too.
This order is an extension of this. Thinking about the relationships between lines will improve your convergences, so don't forget to give it a read.
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
Thank you very much for your time Elodin! I hear your critique and i appreciate it. Quick question: demo link leads to the same image as the one at the end of your text. Maybe it's broken on my end, i dunno. Could you repeat the link to the demo please? i would love to learn your method
Thank you!
Nope, I messed up, let me edit it
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The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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