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250 boxes challenge changed (?)

2:44 PM, Friday March 8th 2024

Hello, I have started the 250 boxes challenge a couple of months ago (only got to 90 boxes so far), and I have seen that it's page along with the videos explaining the challenge have changed- and it is nice to see that drawabox is constantly trying to improve, but it seems that how the challenge works changed a bit, am I supposed to redo it? Continue doing what I did before?

Mainly I saw that the first 50 boxes are supposed to have a vanishing point on the page which I haven't done with my 50 first boxes

(Bonus question :D - until now I pretty much used to ghosting method on two lines to determine where the vanishing point is then kind of traced the way back to each point, is this the way I was supposed to do it..? Or am I supposed to half guess based on my existing lines where the other lines are supposed to go?)

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4:28 PM, Friday March 8th 2024
edited at 4:29 PM, Mar 8th 2024

I can't help but get the impression that you may have asked this question prematurely, as your main question is answered at the top of the first page:

Just a heads up - as of February 19th 2024, the challenge has been altered. If you started the box challenge before this, don't worry about it. If you happen to see the changes while in the middle of your challenge, certainly go through them thoroughly but you need only apply their instructions as stated here going forward. If you only caught the changes after completing the challenge, that's fine too.

Either way, you can simply mention that you started before the changes when submitting your homework for feedback - so don't stress over things changing without you noticing, we assume we'll be getting a lot of submissions done the old way for quite some time.

Be sure to go through any new material thoroughly rather than skimming it, as often the answers to our questions are already accounted for.

That said, you can also choose to count those you've done thus far towards the last 150 - meaning that you've done 1 to 90 already, so you can shift to doing 91-140 with explicit vanishing points (following the instructions for "the first fifty"), then 141-190 with far VPs (following the instructions for "the next fifty"), and finally resuming what you were doing before for 191-250.

As to your other question, ghosting back towards the vanishing point is the approach I demonstrate in the videos, so it is certainly fine to do, and is the approach you should be employing.

edited at 4:29 PM, Mar 8th 2024
4:13 PM, Saturday March 9th 2024

I did look through the page of the 250 boxes challenge, I have no idea how I missed this part, I will make sure to check my questions haven't already been answered somewhere before asking next time

Thank you for still letting me know about it and answering my questions, and sorry for asking a question without properly looking through the relevant pages first

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