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10:47 PM, Friday September 30th 2022

Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

The numbers are fine, no worries.

Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

  • Good work drawing your construction lines confidently, this keeps your lines smooth and prevents wobbling.

  • When hatching you're taking the time to space each line evenly which shows that care and thought is being put into each line. This helps your boxes appear solid and tidy rather than rushed.

  • Seeing as how line weight is not a requirement of the challenge it's nice to see that you're applying it. It's a useful tool but one that most people need some mileage with before they feel comfortable applying it. Getting an early start like this will help you see better results sooner.

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, and rates of foreshortening. 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.

Things you can work on:

  • You tend to draw fairly small, I'd like you to draw larger in the future. Drawing large will help you become more comfortable working from the shoulder and allow you to see any mistakes you've made more clearly.

  • I'd like you to experiment with proportions more, most of your boxes are fairly similar in terms of shape. Try mixing in some longer/wider/thinner boxes to see your lines behave in different scenarios.

  • At times you're placing your vanishing point between the viewer and your boxes (boxes 204 and 222 are examples of this). This leads to you extending your lines in the wrong direction and your boxes becoming distorted because your lines are actually diverging from where the vanishing point would actually be. Here's a guide I wrote that will hopefully help you place your vanishing points and line extensions more consistently. If you need some more examples you can find them here and a simplified guide below.

  • There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

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.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

I'd like you to draw 20 more boxes please. Draw larger and focus on extending your lines consistently in the correct direction as well as experimenting with proportions more.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.

Next Steps:

20 more boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
3:28 PM, Tuesday October 11th 2022

Thank you very much for your rewiev Tofu, it helped me a lot to understanding boxes.

I hope I did well making these 20 new boxes. I tried experimenting with the form of the boxes and tried to let the lines converge as a set, but i still find that really hard. I kind of feel like i don't really understand how to let my lines converge at the same vp. Is there something I'm missing about letting the lines converge?

Here is the revision

[https://imgur.com/a/7NDXydI]

8:40 PM, Wednesday October 12th 2022

No problem.

These new boxes are looking solidly put together, great work. All of your lines are extended correctly, you drew larger and experimented more.

When it comes to having your lines converge as a set it's largely down to being aware of the fact that you want them to converge as a set and then building up more mileage with practice. One thing you can keep in mind however is that your vanishing points will be in line with the Y you create at the start (my guide went over this so look there if you need help seeing what I mean). This means that as long as your set converges with these lines you're likely going to be at least in the right area and avoid instances like box 3 in your revisions where your blue/purple lines converge in pairs.

With all that said, I'll be marking your submission complete.

Keep practicing boxes and previous exercises as warm ups and best of luck in lesson 2.

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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