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250 Box Challenge

8:16 AM, Thursday May 21st 2020

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In the beginning I feel like I sort of had it okay, but then quickly slip into unrealistic boxes where all the lines are parallel. I only noticed it after watching a video of someone (sorry forgot who) doing the challenge and then realized my mistake. The Proko video where he goes over drawing boxes is really good too because he explains really simply why a box like that cannot be real. I had been doing them mindlessly just trying to finish and not paying attention to the boxes at all. After that I made a conscious effort to try to see where the lines were gonna go before hand. By the end I feel I got pretty comfortable free-handing the boxes even though one or more of the lines behind the box might be off. I also felt really comfortable laying down each line confidently. I also spent time looking at each box and trying to see where I messed up, so you can see some of my "correction lines" on some of the pages.

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3:25 PM, Thursday May 21st 2020

Like you said I can notice as well a lot of improvement from the boxes, even if like you said you at some point started drawing them just parallel. All in all pretty good job!

About what you said on inner corners, it's something most students struggle with, and 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 thing 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.

Good job overall!

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-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!

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2:09 AM, Friday May 22nd 2020

Thank you so much for your review. I wish I had seen your demos earlier they make things a lot clearer. Thanks again!

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