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!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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