250 Box Challenge
7:49 AM, Sunday May 31st 2020
I drew 252 by mistake. Feedback would be much appreciated!
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8:22 PM, Sunday June 7th 2020
Hi, Vythical. As with what happened in Lesson 1, this one is also a very good submission.
I didn't noticed anything blatantly wrong with your boxes. Sure, some of the boxes are not converging in the best way, but this is a matter of practice.
Sometimes you seem to struggle with that inner corner. One thing that can help, but it's not a particularly easy approach, is to place all the dots for your box before drawing any line. With this method, by the time you reach the inner corner, you can find if the box's perspective has any major perspective problems and address them before having a single line on the paper. Of course, it's not easy to visualize the box with only dots, but it might be a method worth trying.
Since you have a good line quality, I'd say you could have ventured into increasing the lineweight of the outer lines of each box, although this is optional.
Good job here and good luck for the further lessons.
Next Steps:
Lesson 2.
1:51 AM, Wednesday June 10th 2020
Great feedback, thank you.
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