250 Box Challenge

9:37 AM, Saturday May 15th 2021

250 Box Challenge - Google Drive

250 Box Challenge - Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1paL7GXSvGkxm26HaqCB11TSAdE2J39pI?usp=sharing

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I thought 250 boxes was way too many for most of the challenge. I thought, 'Why not break it up into 125 across two challenges?', because I really wanted to be making more progress with the lessons.

But then at around 200, I made a bit of a breakthrough in how I understand three point perspective, and now I'm a reluctant convert.

Do my boxes come out perfect now? No they do not. I understand how to do it better though, and I'm pleased with that progress.

I think I still need to work on ghosting my lines to catch early convergences before they're on paper, and there's some box variants I didn't cover very much, now that I'm looking at them all.

Thanks for looking at my work!

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3:26 PM, Sunday May 16th 2021

Congratulations for completing the 250 Box Challenge!

I can see you made some good improvement with the quality of your mark making. Your lines steadily become straighter and more confident looking as you progressed through the challenge. You drew your boxes at a pretty good size and with a variety of orientations and foreshortening. You also start to do a better job of getting your sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards their shared vanishing points!

Before we begin I just want to mention that in the future, when you go to scan your homework submissions, it would be better to scan your homework using the "photo" setting instead of the "drawing" setting. The drawing setting tends to up the contrast on an image and can cause you to lose some of the subtlety in your line work.

I would recommend that you try adding extra line weight to your boxes as a permanent step for your future warm ups.

When you go to add weight to a line it is important that you treat the added weight the same way you would a brand new line. That means employing the ghosting method here as well. You should be taking your time to plan and ghost through your mark so that when you go to execute your extra line weight, it is done confidently and so that it blends seamlessly with your original mark. This will allow you to create more subtle and clean looking weight to your lines that reinforces the illusion of solidity in your boxes/forms. Extra line weight should be applied to the silhouette of your boxes, as shown here. I recommend that you try adding your extra line weight in no more than 1-2 pases so that you can easily identify mistakes in your work. This diagram should help also you better understand how to properly apply your extra line weight. Something to keep in mind as well, when you are working through Drawabox you should be employing the ghosting method for every mark you make. This includes the hatching that we sometimes use for our boxes.

Finally while your converges do improve overall I think this diagram will help you as well. 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!

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7:27 PM, Tuesday May 18th 2021

Thank you for the critique, and for your video on planning out the ghosted points. It was very helpful to me when I was struggling with the back corners.

Sadly that is the photo mode for my scanner! I've got a better one arriving tomorrow, but couldn't bear to wait to finally submit my work.

I was quite pleased with my efforts to apply a thicker line weight where necessary as I drew the boxes, but I see that didn't come through very well, and it might also be poor practice. I definitely wasn't planning my hatched lines too carefully!

I will try and take your points on board as I continue with my boxes in the lessons and my warmups.

Thank you again.

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