250 Box Challenge

7:35 PM, Sunday August 1st 2021

BOX-CHALL-KAWAMEKI.pdf - Google Drive

Google Docs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VLLeb-AXeELKEV3H-fUaubzcPuvb5bep/view?usp=sharing

It's been almost a year since the other host of our system started this challenge. Since then, we've burnt out, learned that we have DID, and started therapy. So much has happened since we started this challenge, and we're so proud we managed to actually finish it. I really hope we will manage to go through the other lessons and learn plenty of other interesting things. I also hope the assistant who is critiquing this challenge is having a wonderful day (I don't know if it's still only Scylla or if it's also Elo). Now it's time for me to draw funny blobs.

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8:36 AM, Wednesday August 4th 2021

It is in fact neither Scylla or Elo who will be critiquing you, but instead myself. Hello!

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 (not only in terms of this course but in the past year as well it seems!) . 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've done well:

  • Your lines are looking confidently drawn, they do get a little messy at times but largely improve as you move throughout the challenge.

  • Your line weight is intentionally added rather than being rushed in as an afterthought which helps keep things tidy.

  • It's great to see you're experimenting with line weight early on, it requires a fair bit of mileage to be comfortable using but once that comfort is built it's a very useful tool. Building up that mileage early will help you in the long run.

  • You're doing a great job experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimentation is important as it allows us to deepen our understanding of new concepts, it's a great habit to be building and I hope you'll continue to demonstrate it in the future as well.

  • Overall your lines are converging more consistently with fewer instances of distorted boxes appearing because of lines diverging from your vanishing points.

Things you can work on:

  • Your line weight is applied a bit heavily and could be a bit more tidy, remember that the goal is to keep it subtle. One extra pass over a line is often enough and if you're worried about accuracy remember that as long as you're drawing confidently your accuracy will improve with mileage.

  • While you've definitely improved, your lines sometimes converge in pairs as shown here, this is a mistake we can work on. If you take a look at this example it shows how each line in a set relates to one another and their 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.

Overall this was a solid submission and I have no doubt you'll continue to improve and grow with more mileage. I'll be marking your submission complete and moving you on to the next lesson. Keep practicing previous exercises as warm ups and good luck in lesson 2!

Next Steps:

Move on to lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
6:29 PM, Wednesday August 4th 2021

Thank you for the insightful critique. Onward to the dreaded sausages!

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