I took a hiatus from this challenge and got back to it recently to finish it as I want to move on to the next lesson. I see that some parts of this challenged have changed. My assignment was done based off the original challenges instructions, to just note here.
Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.
Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.
Things you did well:
Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.
You're doing a good job of experimenting with orientations. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.
Things you can work on:
It's not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying hatching in your future work. It's a useful tool to learn and the only way to improve is to practice.
I'd like you to experiment with proportions and rates of foreshortening more. Once you get into the new year you keep most of your boxes fairly similar, mix in some longer/thinner/wider boxes more frequently to see how your lines behave in different scenarios. As for rates of foreshortening, you show you can move your vanishing points earlier in the challenge so I'm less worried about you not knowing how to do so, but more so that you're not giving yourself enough practice.
There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.
The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.
While I've noted a few things you can work on in the critique above, you've completed quite the daunting challenge. While your boxes are by no means bad (they're looking pretty solid so far) you did limit some of the benefit you could have gotten from the challenge by not experimenting as much as you could have. While we definitely acknowledge that the challenge isn't the most fun thing in the world (if burnout was what caused the hiatus), experimentation and giving yourself different things to practice (hatching as an example) does help alleviate some of that tedium, be sure to follow the 50% rule from lesson 0 and balance your course work with drawing for yourself as well to lessen the chance of burnout.
That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.
If you haven't already I would recommend reading/watching through the updated box challenge. It may help reinforce/clarify any concepts introduced in the challenge which will only help you going forward.
Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.
Next Steps:
Move on to lesson 2.
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