250 Box Challenge
10:06 AM, Tuesday June 29th 2021
I'm starting to get an idea of it, but I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing.
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5:36 AM, Friday July 2nd 2021
Great job completing the 250 box challenge! I would suggest that you try drawing the boxes at a larger size, this will give you more control of your line placement. Furthermore, I would recommend playing around with the initial "Y" shape that forms the corner. As long as none of the 3 angles in the "Y" are less than 90, it should be possible to turn it into a box. By doing so you can rotate the box. Finally I would suggest messing around with foreshortening by bringing the vanishing point closer to the box; this is also easier to do if you draw the boxes bigger. Good luck on lesson 2!
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11:03 AM, Saturday July 3rd 2021
Thanks for the reply!
I was focusing on shallow foreshortening for the most part because I felt that to be the hardest to draw, as I kept ending up with lines that either were parallel or converged too quickly. Though, that might have been because I drew the boxes too small. I initially didn't draw them big because I was worried that drawing them too big wouldn't give me enough room for extending the lines, but I ended up drawing most of them too small instead.
I do think I am starting to develop a sense of perspective, so I'll move on but I'll also incorporate a few boxes here and there into my warm ups so I can continue to work on them as well.
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