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250 Box Challenge

5:57 AM, Saturday May 22nd 2021

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Here is my 250 Box Challenge. I was planning on this only taking a month, but life happened and now it's almost June. I believe I did a pretty decent job, I think my line confidence has gotten better, and while it's not perfect, I'm glad to be able to look back at my first page and say that I've improved, if only just a bit. Some things I noticed that I did poorly on:

-a lot of my backsides are not lined up to the frontsides, and sometimes it's just by one line, usually the rightmost one.

-Sometimes I don't ghost a line and it shows. I can say that 95%+ of my lines are ghosted, but occasionally it'll slip my mind and sometimes it looks fine, others not so much.

-I have trouble doing more narrow/flat or small boxes. Some of them don't look terrible, but as a whole I could do better on them.

-I will have trouble on the placement and sizing of my boxes, usually resulting in poorly arranged/sized boxes relative to other boxes.

That's all I could find by looking through all of my pages before uploading them, so I'm sure there's more. Apologies for any spelling/grammar mistakes, It's late and I'm pretty tired.

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1:20 AM, Tuesday May 25th 2021

Hi there, I'll be handling your 250 Box Challenge critique.

You've definitely improved over the course of the challenge, but there are some noteworthy things I have to point out as well.

Your line work started off quite messy at the beginning and has definitely cleaned up which is great to see, there are still some line confidence issues in places which results in wobbling however. You tend to draw quite small, I'd like you to draw larger in the future as it not only helps you see any mistakes you make more clearly but will also help you become more comfortable drawing with your shoulder which will help you produce cleaner lines.

The larger issue at hand is you're not taking the time to think about how your sets of lines relate to a vanishing point. You're currently attempting to keep your lines parallel to one another and this is not correct, unless our box is orientated perfectly that it's facing us head on our lines will always converge towards a vanishing point. The further the vanishing point is the closer to parallel the lines will become but they will always converge slightly, and as the vanishing point moves closer to the box the rate at which they converge becomes more drastic. I'd like you to take a look at this example it shows how each line relates to one another, some people make the mistake of converging in pairs but this is also incorrect each line in the set plays a role and if one is off it throws the others off as well.

I'd also like to quickly point to a few specific boxes, 211, 212, 214 and 235 are some easy examples to point out. With these 3 boxes you've kind of aligned them backwards in your head and possibly lost track of their position in space, your correction lines are headed towards the viewer instead of away, this is incorrect because it causes your lines to diverge rather than converge. This has also lead to you losing track of which plane is facing the viewer, in reality these boxes are aligned in the same way that 219, 220, and 225 are.

While you have made some improvements through this challenge I won't be moving you on just yet, there are still some key issues occurring that we need to address in order for you to continue developing your understanding of the 3D space you're attempting to create.

I'm going to ask you to draw 50 more boxes, draw larger, take your time and attempt a variety of different rates of foreshortening. Have some boxes with vanishing points far away, and some where the vanishing point is closer, experiment and see how your sets of lines behave and how it alters your boxes structure over all.

This challenge can definitely be a mentally tiring one especially if people attempt to complete it too quickly, remember to take some time and draw for yourself as well with the 50% rule mentioned in lesson 0.

Don't get discouraged, I know you're capable of doing this and look forward to seeing your work in the future.

Next Steps:

50 more boxes.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:14 AM, Wednesday July 21st 2021

https://imgur.com/a/nNapFUM

Here are my additional 50 boxes.

The 50% rule helped me a lot when it came to motivation and burnout.

I'm glad I took my time instead of rushing through these as I think I did a lot better this time around, although on some pages I got the boxes a little too close together.

11:18 PM, Wednesday July 21st 2021

These are a big improvement, your boxes are looking much less distorted.

Your line work could still be a bit more confident and tidy at times but this is a big step in the right direction so I'll be marking your submission complete.

Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2, congratulations on completing the challenge.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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