First of all, congratulations on finishing the 250 box challenge! It's really hard to do it, and you pushed through, while being patient and applying the line extension method to every box, and drawing big on the page, just drawing a few boxes per page as instructed, good job! I think your improvement over the challenge is clear too, both on your lines and in your convergences.
Only thing I can point out on your boxes is that, even though it has improved, you still have trouble with the inner corner, which is entirely normal. Most students still have trouble with it after the box challenge.
To improve it, a think that particularly helped me, is to change the order I drew boxes in, as done in this picture.
This works, because it helps you think about the relationship of lines between boxes. When 2 lines are very close together, they will have almost the same convergence, as you can see in this example.
A diagram that explains it more in depth is this one, give it a read from time to time until you understand it. It's hard, but it is worth and it will help to get your boxes to the next level.
Once you get the inner corner nailed down consistently, I recommend looking into the advanced exercises of the box challenge, so you can keep challenging yourself and improving.
Overall pretty good job!
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.
Thank you so much for your feedback and the links, I think they will help me a lot.
Here we're getting into the subjective - Gerald Brom is one of my favourite artists (and a pretty fantastic novelist!). That said, if I recommended art books just for the beautiful images contained therein, my list of recommendations would be miles long.
The reason this book is close to my heart is because of its introduction, where Brom goes explains in detail just how he went from being an army brat to one of the most highly respected dark fantasy artists in the world today. I believe that one's work is flavoured by their life's experiences, and discovering the roots from which other artists hail can help give one perspective on their own beginnings, and perhaps their eventual destination as well.
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