250 Box Challenge
12:31 PM, Thursday March 16th 2023
Much progress over the 250 boxes, I am glad I did this :)
Thank you for reviewing!
You made it through the monster challenge! Great work!
Yes, there's a lot of improvement. Your line quality improved fairly quickly, as did your hatching. You also did a large variety of boxes. You clearly have developed a sense of how the convergences need to go.
As a minor thing, I notice that in your ultra long boxes (in the 220's), the long lines have a bit of a bend. Way to jump outside your comfort zone! Adding line weight looked especially difficult. For warm ups, you may want to do some long frayed lines, or lines that go "point to point" over a comparable distance so you can make long, straight, confident lines.
You'll also want to do ellipses and curved lines for warmups if you haven't recently, cause that becomes important in the next several lessons.
Overall, great improvement and you are well on the path! Onward!
Next Steps:
On to lesson 2!
For warmups, work on long, straight, confident lines. Also warm up with curved lines and ellipses if you haven't recently, since they'll be important for the next few lessons!
This recommendation is really just for those of you who've reached lesson 6 and onwards.
I haven't found the actual brand you buy to matter much, so you may want to shop around. This one is a "master" template, which will give you a broad range of ellipse degrees and sizes (this one ranges between 0.25 inches and 1.5 inches), and is a good place to start. You may end up finding that this range limits the kinds of ellipses you draw, forcing you to work within those bounds, but it may still be worth it as full sets of ellipse guides can run you quite a bit more, simply due to the sizes and degrees that need to be covered.
No matter which brand of ellipse guide you decide to pick up, make sure they have little markings for the minor axes.
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