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250 Box Challenge

2:40 AM, Wednesday April 29th 2020

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I can see progress and feel more confident. But I have plenty of room for growth. Eyeing perspective lines is still challenging with those back lines (the through lines). I notice curves on occasion, along with a kind of whisp at the end or beginning of some lines. Also struggling when outlining exterior lines or hashing out one of the planes for spacial recognition.

Line accuracy continues to bother me. While they're straightening out, I still have trouble nailing specific points I'm aiming for. Noticing my set up probably needs some adjustment too, which may be contributing. Lighting I think is poorer than it should be and, embarrassingly, I slouch way too much. Mention lighting because I notice it's hard to keep my eyes focused while ghosting sometimes.

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4:00 PM, Friday May 1st 2020

Yo, TA qzhans here!

Before we begin, I just want to congratulate you on giving those 250 boxes a good ol’ pen and ink smackdown. It is a hefty undertaking and you’ve joined the special club of its completers.

You’ve painstakingly drawn through all your boxes and extended every single last line out to check your errors, and your boxes have been better for it. Indeed, you’ve made a marked improvement throughout the set, with a nice understanding of convergences coming along throughout.

I also like how you've used line weight to reinforce the silhouettes of your boxes and help them pop out. However, I do notice that there are some places where the line you've used to reinforce can get a little wobbly. Remember to always execute strokes with confidence, placing that above accuracy.

Also, although you've done a pretty good job with convergences, some of your middle back lines are still stubbornly not jumping in line with the rest of them. That’s okay, and is something that gets ironed out over time, but I’ll offer some advice. When you go to draw a line, think only about the lines that are supposed to be parallel to it (share a vanishing point). Lines closer to an existing line will converge slower, while the opposite is true for lines further away.

One issue I'd like to bring up is how the length of your error lines gradually began to shorten out throughout the set, to the point where it was hard to tell if there was divergence or not. Make sure to extend it out 2-3 times the original line length. Additionally, you have drawn a lot of your boxes quite small. I would say 2-6 boxes is a good number per page, as you want to do some especially big ones. This also allows you to do very flat or long boxes, which you should try.This also allows you to do very flat or long boxes, which you should try. These are mostly just structural nitpicks however.

Overall, there seems to be a good understanding of convergences coming along. Most of the problems I have are just small things, so I feel quite good about passing you onto Lesson 2!

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8:45 PM, Saturday May 2nd 2020

Thanks so much for this. Glad to know there's some visible progress I'm sure I can be hyper critical of myself on. Those back lines were definitely a recurring issue over time, and I was wondering about the amount of boxes per page as I kept moving along. Felt helpful to vary things up from the routine 5 per page rhythm to smaller boxes to squeeze more in. Hadn't thought about doing some pages with larger but few boxes to exercise in the other direction. At least not after the first sheet. Really appreciate the critique. Thanks again!

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