250 Box Challenge
11:05 AM, Wednesday February 16th 2022
Hello everyone!
This took me a while (a year and a half, actually). I had several long breaks in between and made it through the challenge in phases in which I completed between 50 and 100 boxes. The last were 55 boxes in two weeks or so.
The long breaks were probably not exactly optimal and I feel I could have improved more if I had worked consistently on the challenge.
I can clearly see systematic mistakes in my boxes, but preventing them proved to be quite tricky. Extrapolating invisible lines was hard for me and I am not sure whether I should have been more thorough in my pinpointing or if I rather should have trained my intuition by guesstimating.
What I basically tried was actually identifying the vanishing points (after the first marks were done ofc) and finding the intersections of two lines pointing towards their respective VP. But for some reason I was sometimes off by a shocking degree! Maybe finding the VP on my drawing surface instead of "seeing it in 3D" was the problem?
Maybe you guys have some input on how to approach the planning of the lines. I hope I am done with the challenge, but I would like to experiment a bit more with the boxes (maybe as a warm-up) if I knew what exactly I can optimize and focus on.
Many thanks in advance!