250 Box Challenge
12:44 AM, Friday April 10th 2020
first time doing this challenge, i started getting more loose halfway through but i still feel like i did something wrong.
Congratulations on finishing the 250 boxes!
Just like you say, your boxes are a bit stiff. This is because you're trying to focus on accuracy over confidence.
As mentioned in lesson 1, it's more important to draw confident lines than accurate lines, and because of this, you should strive to draw confident lines always, even if they miss the end mark.
Here's a text from lesson 1 that explains what I'm saying
Also worth thinking about is the fact that there are several levels of "success" with this exercise:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit.
Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points.
Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, a line with wobble will be level 0, it doesn't correspond to any level. So a wobbly line, no matter how accurate, will always be worse than a confident line, in drawabox.
You've however applied the line extension method through all your boxes, and drawn them pretty big, which is really nice, so I'm only going to make you do a few more boxes, 5, just to make sure you understand how to make a line confidence, by sacrificing accuracy.
Next Steps:
Just like I said, I want 5 boxes more, try to make them as confident as you can, even if they accuracy gets worse. Good luck and keep up the good work!
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/kKwuUb2
thanks for the feedback, while i was doing this challenge i felt like i was forgetting something, are these any better?
Hell yes, those are much better! You still have some very slight wobble, specially on the lineweight added on the first box, but this is a lot of progress! Remember that when adding lineweight you should still draw confident ghosted lines, drawn with the shoulder. Here again, confidence > accuracy
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing 255 boxes, and good luck with lesson 2! Keep up the good work!
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