Hello i am currently doing the 250 box challenge and i'm getting a little confused regarding my boxes, i have read the notes for the exercise but when i finish a box my brain keeps overlapping each face and i end up wasting time.
Could anyone help me on this?
Thank you.
Hello, I'm doing the same challenge.
The most reliable tip I can think of at the moment is to look at the Y. The Y always connects the three sides of the box facing the viewer. Once you can identify at least one edge of each side, you should be able to see them correctly and apply the lineweight.
I hope this helped and good luck with the challenge.
This is likely due to my own mistake in the "how to draw a box 2" video. In it, I did not communicate what I was pointing at properly when talking about the front and rear faces.
A box consists of 6 faces. Three of these point towards the viewer (in most cases), three point away from the viewer. You can pick any one of the three faces that point towards the viewer and fill it with hatching. Any of those three will do, no one of them is more valid than the other. The point is to differentiate them from the back faces.
well according to thr lesson the front facing is the bigger one .
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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