Hello who will fix my 250 box challenge!
It took me over a year to complete the challenge! I went slowly, but I believe I was constant.
I finished it today and I'm so happy and relieved! I feel that I can make boxes more easily, even though they are far from perfect. I have a lot of trouble with the inner lines.
Hope you can help me with a criticism or suggestion!
First off well done for completing the challenge!
In general, neat presentation of boxes
Some critiques:
Boxes 19 and 25 the extension of purple lines in the wrong direction but it seems as you went along you figured this out but reference this picture if you are stuck https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/149200bd.jpg
It seems you are struggling with the back corner. Try and think of each set of 4 edges converging to their own vanishing point. This image may help https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png
Try estimate the back corner by ghosting and pacing a small dot, assessing whether the perspective makes sense. But this improves with time and more experience with perspective.
This image conveys how I’d approached the box https://i.imgur.com/vYLKKwe_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
Next Steps:
I’m not going to give any revisions but I will say try drawing some boxes with the critiques given and incorporate even drawing one as part of your warm up.
Good luck with the rest of the course and don’t forget to seek out help and encouragement through the Discord or Reddit as you do the exercises and lessons.
Thank you for your help!
I agree with your points and I will include box design as part of my warm-up!
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.
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