250 Box Challenge
9:48 PM, Monday January 17th 2022
Hi guys finally done with the 250 boxes challenge,i'd love some critique to move on to lesson 2
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11:20 PM, Monday January 17th 2022
Hi, I think there are a few things you can focus on improving:
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Avoiding overlap between your boxes -- many of your boxes overlap both in form as well as in the correction lines. This makes it difficult to determine what's going on
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Drawing boxes with more convergence, rather than from isometric perspective -- the purpose of this exercise is to gain familiarity with boxes of different sizes in different orientations. I fear that many of your boxes are too similar to the second diagram linked above, showing no foreshortening (and thus having all VPs at infinity)
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Extending your convergence lines further in some cases -- some of your convergence lines are very short, making it difficult to see whether they are converging or diverging in the long run, and thus not helping much in the way of correction!
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Make sure to spend time ghosting your hatching -- a lot of the hatchwork at the beginning seems to be rushed, resulting in uneven, unclear strokes; the lesson's guidelines expect evenly-spaced lines with clear endpoints and a neat contour (however, you seem to have improved on this by the end!)
Something that can be helpful might be to do 50 more boxes, but with more deliberation and with more variance in the perspective shown. I'm just one person to whom you may want to listen, so I recommend waiting for at least one other person to comment before making a decision on what to do next. Either way, good luck!
2:47 PM, Tuesday January 18th 2022
Hi,thank you for your critique,i was so focused drawing boxes i didn't the notice the fact i was putting the vanishing points to infinity,and yeah regarding the convergence lines and the hatching i was probably tired and i rushed them,definetely should have gone slower
Thanks again for the time you took to look at them and good luck to you too!
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