Hi.
The whole challange took me few months, but it was totally worth it! When I was drawing these I couldn't feel any improvement, but when I compare first pages to the last ones I'm pretty happy with my progress. The most difficult part for me was far-back corner. Usually I draw it last, so when I messed up other lines, it was impossible to make all 3 edges connected to it converge correctly.
That's really wonderful you were able to see improvement and progress! I can see it too as I go through your submission. The back corner is often a spot of trouble for people. Often, that result is a culmination of mistakes made while constructing the box previously, but continued practice and some further notes I'll link you will help you tame those lines
On to your lines: These are looking pretty decent. You have a tendency to go back over mistakes with an additional line, so try to fight that instinct. This tends to draw the eye rather than cover up the mistakes. While you does improve on this towards the end of the challenge, it's worth pointing out so you can keep an eye on it.
As for your convergences, these also improve significantly. At the start, they're decent, but towards the end, you're clearly becoming more consistent, with each set of correction lines showing less stray marks. This is great to see and means you're quickly moving in the right direction. I think you could benefit from experimenting with foreshortening - try out some dramatic foreshortening during warm-ups. At the moment, you're mainly focused on very shallow foreshortening, so I think trying something more dramatic would help you out.
Anyway, here are the notes. We link these at the end of every challenge as a matter of course. They're some extra notes that may help you improve further, or confirm conclusions you came to during the course of the challenge. What they go over is the angle of each line as they approach the box and how keeping an eye on this relationship could improve your convergences. Also, considering each line in relation to the lines with which it shares a vanishing point rather than the lines with which it shares a plane or a corner could do the same.
Next Steps:
I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to Lesson 2. Practice further with more dramatic foreshortening so you can have that in your tool-box and keep in mind those notes to tame that back corner. Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback! I find shallow boxes more difficult, because of VPs being more far away(usually of the page), so I decided to focus my practice to them. I'll make sure to play more with foreshorting as you suggested. Cheers!
Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
Still, I'd recommend buying these in person if you can, at a proper art supply store. They'll generally let you buy them individually, and also test them out beforehand to weed out any duds.
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