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250 Box Challenge

11:01 AM, Wednesday November 20th 2024

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Finally done with the 250 boxes challenge. It was challenging, but also really fun.

By the way, I forgot to submit the 231-235 boxes so I added an additional link for it in the 226-230 image!

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4:26 PM, Sunday November 24th 2024

Hello! Congrats on completing the 250 Box Challenge! This is nothing to scoff at so give yourself an extra pat on the back for going through this daunting challenge. Looking at the first and last pages, the improvement is clearly visible :)

Things you did well:

  • Firstly, your boxes look great. Lines look clean and confident, and hatching is consistent. Good job!

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations, proportions 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 improve on:

  • Looking again at the last 50 boxes I noticed sometimes your lines converge in pairs. 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 also noticed that sometimes the inner corner is off. If it gives you trouble in the future you can also try out this method of drawing boxes.

Next Steps:

You can move to Lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck!

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5:45 AM, Monday November 25th 2024
edited at 5:46 AM, Nov 25th 2024

Thank you for your critique!

The method you gave me is really interesting. I kinda didn't get it at first but I'll try to apply it and see the result. It might help me with the issue of paired convergence that you pointed out as well as the inner corner being off. Anyway, I'll surely add this to my warm-up routine. My gratitude upon you!

edited at 5:46 AM, Nov 25th 2024
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