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250 Box Challenge

2:26 PM, Tuesday August 13th 2024

Boxes #'s 1-53 - Album on Imgur

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250 boxes have been completed.The link above shows the first 53. The rest of the boxes have been organized into separate links. Please see the respective descriptions.

Box 1- 53 Also in link above

https://imgur.com/a/qPSnS8O

Boxes 54-100.

https://imgur.com/a/GdHlYR0

Boxes 101 - 138

https://imgur.com/a/L0KBidr

'Boxes 139 - 200. Started 139 after receiving feedback. For the last 100 boxes or so, the notes consist of the following: day is # on far left, 24 hour time, box #, and various notes respectively.

https://imgur.com/a/v8Dhz21

Boxes 201 - 250.

https://imgur.com/a/CDfkAaz

Please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or redos. This challenge was a lot of work and a lot of fun. From the results of many experiments, I made tons of mistakes and enjoyed the learning along the way

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8:26 PM, Tuesday August 13th 2024

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

Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. 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:

  • You're doing a good job of drawing the lines constructing your boxes smoothly and confidently.

  • It's nice to see that you're taking the time to plan each of your hatching lines and space them evenly. This helps keep your boxes looking tidy rather than looking like they were rushed on to the page.

  • 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 work on:

  • 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.

While I've noted a few things you can work on in the critique above, you've completed quite the daunting challenge. Great work so far, nice to see you're experimenting a lot.

That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and move you on to lesson 2.

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

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
1:07 AM, Wednesday August 14th 2024

Thanks for taking the time to review. I appreciate the feedback and look forward to moving forward.

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