250 Box Challenge
1:23 AM, Wednesday November 30th 2022
Finally completed the challenge. Took me a bit longer than I would have liked, but I'm glad I did this.
Hi Kokolo, and congratulations on making it through the challenge! I will try to give you a brief critique, pointing out where I think you did well and where things could be improved further.
Your linework throughout the challenge stays consistently precise, in the sense that your segments look very straight and give a clear sense of directionality. During the first half of the challenge, while applying correctly lineweight to the silhouette of the boxes, your lines feel however a bit scratchy with more than 2 superimposed lines, which ruins a bit the sense of confidence that your otherwise steady marks convey. However, this tendency starts to disappear further down the challenge, where lineweight is applied with only a single superimposed line, as it should be. Even if with time you managed to correct this, I will remind you here that lineweight is a tool that we use to convey the feeling of looking at something in 3d space and not a way to correct a line that looks faulty to us. One of the things we do in this course is also to try learn to accept mistakes and build or work around them instead of necessarily correcting them. In all the exercises of this course we should always fight the urge to try to correct a bad line, whatever its nature or purpose.
Your line extensions, except for a couple of early mistakes (boxes 32 and 42 for instance) extend correctly away from the viewer. Generally speaking, your convergences are quite good, with at least 3 sides for each set of sides of a box usually converging in a fairly small area (or at least looking believably convergent in the cases where the VP is outside the piece of paper). The fourth side of the set often ends up being noticeably more slanted towards one of the other 3, resulting in a more sparse area of convergence or (more so early on in the challenge than later) convergence in pairs i.e. the hidden edge converges with one of the sides but diverges with respect to the other 2. This is due to the difficulty of placing the back corner of the box when drawing it beginning from the front, and it's a very common one since mistakes with convergence on the front will inevitably pile up at the back. To some degree this can never be fixed completely, but there are some methods that could help improve the precision of your back corner, such as reversing the process and start to draw the box from the inner corner or helping yourself by placing auxiliary reference marks when you ghost in one of the directions that form the back corner intersection, so that you may fix one of the directions and find more precisely the actual position of the corner.
I don't have many other remarks to make on your homework. Viewed as a whole, I'd say that you did a nice job with this challenge and that you have shown a good grasp of the concepts and instructions of both lesson 1 and this specific challenge. Keeping in mind the areas where you could improve, I'd say you are more than ready to move on to lesson 2. Good luck and good work!
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