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11:26 PM, Tuesday October 6th 2020
Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge!
You did a really good job on the challenge overall and I can see that you made a lot of improvement with your mark making skills. When I compare your early boxes with your final sets I can see that you gain a lot more control and confidence with your mark making. Your extra line weight becomes more subtle and blends more seamlessly with the original mark. You also do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!
While your convergences do improve overall I think this diagram will help you further develop that skill as you continue through Drawabox. So, when you are looking at your sets of lines you want to be focusing only on the lines that share a vanishing point. This does not include lines that share a corner or a plane, only lines that converge towards the same vanishing point. Now when you think of those lines, including those that have not been drawn, you can think about the angles from which they leave the vanishing point. Usually the middle lines have a small angle between them, and this angle will become negligible by the time they reach the box. This can serve as a useful hint.
Congrats again and good luck with lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2!
10:48 PM, Thursday October 8th 2020
Thank you
Color and Light by James Gurney
Some of you may remember James Gurney's breathtaking work in the Dinotopia series. This is easily my favourite book on the topic of colour and light, and comes highly recommended by any artist worth their salt. While it speaks from the perspective of a traditional painter, the information in this book is invaluable for work in any medium.