Well, it took me half an year to finish it, but I'm finally done! I believe I improved a lot since I started the challenge, and I'm excited to move onto lesson 2.
Also, I was having trouble with imgur, so I uploaded the pictures to postimages, if that's okay ^^;
Hello I'll be taking a look at your 250 box challenge
-Starting with your linework you are using the ghosting method to good effect, and your lines look confident and straight, that said I have some important observations to make.
-When adding lineweight keep in mind that you only have to add one superimposed line, you have to ghost it and draw it to the best of your ability. If you overdo the lineweight you risk turning your boxes into mere graphic forms. That said you did well when choosing where to add it as you always did it on the lines that represent the silhouette of the box.
-I like to see that you are using hatching lines, try to be more tidy with them, keep in mind that you also should draw them with the same care you draw the lines for your boxes sides, you have a tendency to overshoot some of them, if you can help it try to err on the side of undershooting them.
-During your first half of your set, I can notice that you corrected some lines that were a bit off by adding new ones, try to get rid of this habit and stick to the lines that you had already drawn, as you moved through the challenged you did this less often, so keep working on this.
-You did a good job when extending those lines to their vanishing points, you didn’t have any trouble with this.
-I think you set most of your vanishing points relatively close to the boxes, as they were inside the page most of the time. Try to experiment with more shallow foreshortening in your future practices and warm ups.
-I also want to suggest that you try different orientations for your boxes, if you have trouble visualizing them or imagining them take alooka t this image which shows different orientation for your boxes, 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.
-You didn't have any trouble with diverging lines, but keep an eye out for lines diverging in pairs as shown here, the more you practice the better you will get at this and eventually your lines will converge as a set, as shown here
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.
Congratulations upon completing this challenge, while there are a few mistakes, they are minor ones, so you are ready to move on to lesson 2.
Also as a side note, for your next submissions try to use another host image service, I had to click each one of your photos separately, T-T
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
Thank you so much for your input! ^^ I think I didnt put enough thought on the orientation of the boxes before putting the points on the paper, so I'll try out imagining their orientation when I practice then in warmups.
Also sorry for the image service inconvenience q.q
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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