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250 Box Challenge

4:44 PM, Friday December 4th 2020

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I have changed my pen with half of the challenge completed. I think I'm doing something wrong because this new pen doesn't drop ink fast enough and there are times that i get weak lines that look like dotted lines. Maybe my last pen didn't die but I just broke the tip and that's why it started to drop ink like it was dying. That's the reason why I left the attempt of trying to add thickness to the box contour because when I tried i just made a mess and it was hiding other errors.

In the last 50 boxes, I tried to improve my boxes looking at others reviews and scylla tips (the video that she uses the back corner mark to align the other corners better. I think that improved my last boxes a bit.

Besides the back corner problem (which is the accumulation of other errors in the drawing), I didn't find a constant mistake that I do over and over. I did a variaty of mistakes (missed lines, bad estimations, etc.) but there were all different and most of the time opposites. For example, sometimes I did overestimate the convergence of a line but also I did the opposite, underestimating the convergence (so at the end the lines were parallel or divergent). That's why I couldn't fix any of these problems with solutions like "I should mark a bit more convergence because I always end underestimating it".

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12:25 PM, Thursday December 10th 2020

Hello,

First off fantastic job, while having all sets of line perfectly converge is the ideal we strive for it is still a dream and we should accept to be satisfied with 'good enough'. Now that doesn't mean to give up, but accept that we are not perfect. Having 3 out of 4 lines early in our drawing journey 'pretty much converge' is good enough.

While I do not know mechanically how the pens function, based on what you said and how some of my pens behave after a while (although mine are probably the cheapest and only ones I could find close by), it looks like somehow your first pen was either really forgiving, possibly not exactly 'felt tip pen', or the strongest out of the batch that can take punishment. It sounds like you accidentally broke the second one by using the same force as on the fading first one, but based on how the boxes look it does not look broken at all.

In conclusion, you should have considered to try to do the contour anyway.

It feels like you fell into a similar pattern as I did, many your boxes tend to be the same proportions and you mostly rotate them, there are a few 'slim' boxes. It is better than mine, since I discovered that I got stuck in 4 or so rotations for the vast majority.

Your hashing is pretty consistent, you moved one from your first attempts pretty quickly, great job.

I hope you made the discovery on your own why 1 or 2 of your boxes got very distorted. It was because of the very dramatic convergence. And it seems like you more consistently chose a less dramatic convergence as you got towards the end.

Good job overall. I would appreciate if you could also drop a critique on my own attempt.

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Really good improvement. Consider playing with vastly different proportions an bigger boxes as warm up in future. Maybe also consider a few side by side boxes with very different dramatic/shallow convergence.

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5:24 PM, Thursday December 10th 2020

Thank you for your feedback!

I have already critique your work too. I hope it helps.

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