250 Box Challenge
8:27 AM, Thursday April 23rd 2020
I couldn't post all my boxes in 1 go in imgur so here are the rest: https://imgur.com/a/VAcsSy8
I'm sorry for the inconvenience
I couldn't post all my boxes in 1 go in imgur so here are the rest: https://imgur.com/a/VAcsSy8
I'm sorry for the inconvenience
Hey! A big congratulations on completing this challenge, and an even bigger one on the amount of improvement you’ve shown throughout the set. I really only have 2 things to point out, and both are related to your convergences. The first is that one set of lines will usually converge far quicker than the other two (you’ll notice this in boxes that have a triangular-looking front face.) This isn’t necessarily incorrect, but, as you likely noticed, it makes the construction of the rest of the box more difficult. I usually recommend keeping the 3 vanishing points equally away from the center point of the Y- for simplicity’s sake. The second is in regards to the back corner. A lot of the time, you’ll pick its position in such a way that one set of lines is correct, but the other 2 are incorrect. Instead, what I recommend doing is finding the perfect point from the perspective of all 3 sets, and having the corner be equally off of all of them. So, rather than one line being 100% correct, and the other 2 being 100% incorrect, they’re all slightly off. The box is equally wrong in either way, of course, but the latter looks a lot better at first glance. Both of these are fairly minor things, however. What you have here is more than enough to have you move on to lesson 2, so I’ll have you do just that. Congrats!
Next Steps:
Lesson 2
Thank you so much! I'll keep your advice in mind for future boxes!
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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