250 Box Challenge
8:07 AM, Thursday June 17th 2021
https://imgur.com/a/mEDTzyM for 125-212, https://imgur.com/gallery/r9Z0nw1 for 213-240, and https://imgur.com/gallery/ykK9vcf for 241-250. I would like to know where i could improve on
https://imgur.com/a/mEDTzyM for 125-212, https://imgur.com/gallery/r9Z0nw1 for 213-240, and https://imgur.com/gallery/ykK9vcf for 241-250. I would like to know where i could improve on
Hello loadsofskeptic, congratulations on completing the 250 box challenge!
I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. You drew your boxes with a good variety of orientations and foreshortening. You also start to do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points, great work!
You're generally doing a good job of adding line weight to the silhouette of your boxes using confident super imposed lines. But I recommend that you try adding your extra line weight in no more than 1-2 pases.
Extra line weight should never be used to correct or hide mistakes. You can read more about this here. https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/lineweigt
I sometimes see you repeating lines. No matter how off a line is, a student should never repeat it, they should keep the line as it if were correct and move on.
You've done a good job of hatching one of the front faces of your boxes throughout the challenge, just remember to use the ghosting method for these lines as well as the ones used to construct your boxes. It looks like you were doing this for the last few pages though, your hatching definitely got neater and straighter as you progressed, well done.
You appear to have crossed out a few boxes you made and replaced them. For future reference, while working through Drawabox we do not cross out or attempt to cover up our mistakes. Mistakes happen. It is important to recognize when a mistake is made and why. Then, we move onto the next step. You should not start over or redo work unless someone has told you to in your critique.
You've done a good job of using the line extension technique to check your convergences, and I can see you analysing what they show you and using that to improve as you progress through the challenge, super work! There was the occasional hiccup with the odd set of lines being extended the wrong way in the first third of the challenge, but I'm happy too see all your later boxes have been extended correctly.
SO
Congratulations again! Please add this exercise to your pool of warm ups and good luck in lesson 2.
Next Steps:
Please move on to lesson 2
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