250 Box Challenge
5:52 AM, Friday May 15th 2020
I love boxes. Thank you in advance!!
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12:08 AM, Tuesday May 26th 2020
Congratulations on completing the box challenge! You've definitely improved through the challenge both on your lines and convergences
I've a few things to point out so you can keep improving in your boxes:
-Your lines get a bit wobbly at times:
In these exercises, you should always prioritize confidence over accuracy.
A wobbly line will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off the confident line is.
If you take a look over the ghosted lines notes you'll see the levels of lines:
Level 1: Line is smooth and consistent without any visible wobbling, but doesn't quite pass through A or B, due to not following the right trajectory. It's a straight shot, but misses the mark a bit. Level 2: Line is straight, smooth and consistent without any wobbling and maintains the correct trajectory. It does however either fall short or overshoot one or both points. Level 3: Line is straight, smooth, consistent without any wobbling. It also starts right at one point and ends exactly at the other.
As you can see, wobbly lines aren't mentioned, which means that they would be worse than level 1.
This applies as well when adding lineweight, too, so keep it in mind.
-You've been repeating some lines. No matter how off a line is, don't repeat it, keep going as if it had been correct.
-You've also drawn few boxes per page towards the end, which is great! I recommend drawing them bigger though, don't worry about the extension lines colliding with other boxes.
-Lastly, on the inner corner placement, you've improved a lot. I made this demo to show another method to approach drawing boxes. Instead of completing first the outline of the box, you draw the inner corner before, as it's shown, in the fourth step. This helped me in figuring out the inner corner issue and hopefully it helps to you too.
This works because of this. Thinking about the relationships between lines will lead to better boxes. Drawing the boxes in that order will help you think about this when drawing the lines more, which is why it usually leads to better convergences.
Overall pretty good job! I recommend looking into the advanced exercises once you start getting the inner corners more regularly correct.
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high, if you critique some critiques, those would be less critiques I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to it so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
8:41 AM, Thursday May 28th 2020
Thank you for the critique!!!!
About the demo you mentioned though. I think you accidentally gave the wrong link. I looked through your past critiques and I think this was the link you were referring to: https://imgur.com/FGdtVwm
Really helpful though! I didn't really think about angle relationships when I was drawing my boxes.
I'll be sure to remember your advice moving forward! And I'll also consider doing lesson 1 critiques!
10:59 AM, Thursday May 28th 2020
Yep, you're right, sorry about the mistake, good luck with the rest of the lessons :D
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