250 Box Challenge
10:02 PM, Monday November 29th 2021
I'm uploading my 250 box challenge , hopefully it can get some feedback from the community.
Hello Solonegociosserios,
I hope you are well,
You did a great job throughout the challenge. Good job extending your colored lines away from the viewer. Your lines are really straight, but you sometimes overshoot them. That's fine as we work in levels, but it is something to look out for in the future.
Sometimes your lines converge in pairs, https://imgur.com/KSHwTwo this is what you do sometimes, we don't want that because we want all our 4 lines to meet in the same point, a vanishing point, as shown here https://imgur.com/8PqQLE0. That says to me that you perhaps lost your initial vanishing point. This diagram should also help you understand the angles of lines converging to the vanishing point. The inner lines have a smaller degree unless our box is long and it also depends on the position of our vanishing point. I want you to remember that our lines should always converge in one point, vanishing point, but they never meet in pairs.
Also when you add hatching remember to keep it even and ghost it as it is line too. Don't make it messy, as when we add hatching to the face, it will become our point of interest for that box, so we want to make that point pleasant to the eye.
Your lineweight is a little messy and I know you could do better as your linework is quite good as you can make straight lines if you commit to them. So for lineweight remember to also ghost for that process. What we want to do is add another line on top of our initial one and what we should get is an effect of our line becoming darker(as we give more ink to the line) and slightly wider(as ink spills slightly to the sides). Making our line wider isn't our goal, it is to make it stronger/darker. This diagram conveys what I am trying to say.
Don't repeat your lines, even if you made a bad line, leave it and treat it as if it was the correct one. We don't want to correct our lines as it starts bad habits and teaches us that we don't have to commit to our lines. Leave your bad line there to be seen. Next time you try to make a line, don't repeat the same mistake you did the previous time. This also includes lines made for lineweight.
I will now mark this lesson as complete as you hadn't made any major mistakes in the challenge. Keep in mind what I wrote here for your future warmup.
If you have any question feel free to ask me here,
Have fun during your journey,
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2
Thank you for the critique Rivgar!
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