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2:10 PM, Sunday November 17th 2024
Hello! So i'll be reviewing your 250 Boxes challenge! First of all congrats, this is one of the biggest stepping stone in the course and the next lessons will be a smoother ride compared to this!
I'll first be going over general points and then will add some thoughts on each section:
First of all good job on always extending your lines in the right direction!
For many boxes though you forgot to extend the back corners side. We aren't focusing on the back corner for now but make sure to always extend it as it can give a good indication for the success of the rest of your box.
Secondly I haven't seen any of your extended lines diverge from the other sets of lines, (other than for the back corner which is normal) but sometimes the line you drew is diverging, but as you draw your extension through the dots (or your intended line) it ends up not diverging. That means that you understand how to do your boxes, but that on some you end up failing to draw the line, that could be for different reason, you got distracted or stopped focusing for a few seconds which happens and is completely fine, or you did your boxes in autofocus or while listening or watching videos which doesn't help stay focused or maybe you didn't do warm ups before, if you didn't I encourage you do in the future but as this isn't a thing I've seen a lot just keep an eye on it for a bit and that'll do.
Some lines seem to be parallel for the 50-100 boxes like n°81 the 2 leftmost sides are parallel and not converging, that's fine just keep practicing those shallow forshortening boxes, it's something I struggled a lot with too, to find a balance between a faraway vanishing point and lines that are not parallel, for many of those shallow boxes 50-100 you end up having not so shallow foreshortening very often, so I encourage during your warmups you try to strive for those very shallow foreshortening and little by little you'll manage fine!
Good you practiced hatching lines keep doing it!
For your next boxes warmups you can try to tackle line weight for your boxes as seen here https://mark-gerarts.github.io/draw-a-card/# (on this tool I shared with you last lesson, you can see the line weight explained when the boxes exercice is shown)
Your lines are confident, only sometimes you seem unsatisfied with the result and draw over it again, you should not do that. If you are unsatisfied with a line, take a breath, slow down your work speed and make sure your next lines are good, that line you missed is not a problem and it will only push you to succeed more in the future.
You varied your orientations (and shapes!) of boxes a lot so good job on that!
I hope that you've seen the average inner corner of your boxes as gotten better through your 250 boxes showing that you have improved ! I'd like to link you that post, I find the answer of Umcomfortable was what I was missing to get that back corner better on the boxes I failed all the time, https://drawabox.com/community/submission/X4JQK70H it's maybe not the clearest answer ever but I recommend you put it on a note or post it and go read it again before you do your warmup boxes next time!
I've also seen that diagram recommended a lot https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0 even though it helped me less it can still be useful!
Overall great job! Good luck moving onto to Lesson 2
I recommend you write the following on a little post it for your next few warmups you can practice boxes again (if you're too tired of seeing them that's completely understandable and you can take a break and then do those warmups in a few weeks)
Just based on a few observation of the sections 1-50 / 50-100
Do a few boxes with a big foreshortening making sure to have them look solid.
And then a few pages (1-5 AT MOST i'm not asking for 20uh) with shallower foreshortening trying to achieve that range between parallel lines and a very far awar vanishing point!
And once again don't hesitate to message me on any thread when yo'ure finished with lesson 2 if you wish me to review it obviously
Good luck and have fun drawing! (and don't forget the 50 percent rule!)
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 2 and don't forget to add your new exercices to the warmups!
12:46 AM, Monday November 18th 2024
Thank you so much for reviewing my work! You're as professional as always. Honestly I haven't noticed that my extensions are not aligning with the edges themselves, maybe because I did them through edges and not the points... I'll make sure to pay more attention to that next time. It was pretty annoying seeing my back lines being so inaccurate, but I know that's because of my other 9 edges being non-perfect... And yeah, it's quite hard to make shallow boxes not too dramatic or parallel/diverging, so closer to end most of them were pretty dramatic. I like the visual guide to the foreshortening you recommended, I'll save it for the future warm-ups. Thanks again for taking your time and doing this review, I appreciate it so much. I'll make sure to message you after I complete lesson 2, can't wait to start it!
3:00 PM, Monday November 18th 2024
You're welcome! Glad it could help
Good luck with the next lesson ! It can be a bit tough at times but I'm sure you'll enjoy it!
11:55 AM, Friday February 21st 2025
Hello, it's me again! Are you still doing reviews? I've been taking several breaks from Drawabox and drawing in general, but now I want to continue. I think I've finished lesson 2 at the end of January or so, but forgot to submit it for critique, and since then I've just dont like a couple of 50% and other drawing lesson aside from Drawabox. I hope you can critique my work, so I can continue forward. Actually I thought the beginning of Lesson 3 is still Lesson 2, so I've done like the first 2 homework pages, but I'll do my 50% for now I think and will cotinue after the review.
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