250 Box Challenge
12:09 PM, Tuesday October 6th 2020
Here are my boxes!
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11:52 PM, Tuesday October 6th 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did a good job on the challenge overall and I can see you made a lot of good progress with your mark making. You have a good variety of sizes and foreshortening to your boxes. I can see that you made some good progress with adding extra line weight to your boxes. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
While you have made some good progress with your extra line weight, I think there is still some room for improvement here. When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute it the mark blends seamlessly with your previous mark. This will allow you to build and create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines. This is something that you will improve with consistent practice, so make sure that you include this step in your regular warm ups.
You will also want to avoid drawing your boxes too small during your warms ups. While it is good to practice with a variety of sizes and rotations, in general you want to lean more towards drawing your boxes larger as a rule. Drawing bigger helps engage your brain's spatial reasoning skills, whereas drawing smaller impedes them.
Finally while your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
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