250 Box Challenge
4:03 AM, Friday March 13th 2020
Hello! Please review my 250 box challenge. Thank you.
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3:56 PM, Sunday March 15th 2020
Hey there Natalia! So, unfortunately, I'm only seeing one page in the imgur album! Please resubmit the whole challenge in this thread and I'll be able to give you some feed back!
Next Steps:
Please link in the entire challenge so we can go over it. Thank you!
8:40 PM, Sunday March 15th 2020
6:56 PM, Tuesday March 17th 2020
Alright, awesome! Thank you so much!
Okay, so right from the get-go, I gotta commend you on some really excellent mark-making. Your linework is clean and readable from beginning to end of the challenge. The biggest thing I recommend from here would be to continue working with the ghosting technique to increase your accuracy. At the moment, you're pretty consistently overshooting your end points which in turn weakens the illusion of 3D form. All the same though, your application of lineweight and overall mark-making is pretty stellar.
As for your convergences, these also improve quite a lot over the course of the set. From what I can see here, you seemed to struggle a bit getting all the lines converging towards the same point at first, but towards the end, each set becomes very consistent, with few stray or diverging lines. I will note that you may have crammed too many boxes onto the page at a time, but you were able to keep it fairly neat. That said, I definitely recommend giving the boxes some breathing room, so that you can figure out where you're making mistakes a little easier.
All that said, this is great work overall!
For your convergences please take a look at these notes - we link them at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They go over the angle of each line as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship could improve your convergences. Also, considering each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner could do the same.
Next Steps:
Really nice work here. Continue to focus on the ghosting technique to avoid over or undershooting your end points. I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to Lesson 2. Good luck!
10:17 PM, Wednesday March 18th 2020
Thanks so much for the feedback!
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