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12:00 PM, Wednesday June 25th 2025
For the first 50, your lines are very clean overall, with only a few traces of arcing like box 15 and box 46. Your convergences show decent accuracy, as well, though I noticed some lines pair off and converge towards two vanishing points, like box 5's blue lines, box 24's purple lines, and box 42's pink lines.
For the next 50, your lines show improvent. There are still some instances of arcing, like box 65 and box 87, but most are less dramatic than before. Your convergences also show improvement, though there are more instances of lines pairing off, like box 58's blue lines, box 80's pink lines, and box 92's blue lines.
For the last 150, your lines remain clean throughout the rest of the set. While some instances of arcing are present, like box 128 and box 152, most remain minimal. Your convergences also show further improvement, though there are still instances of lines pairing off, like box 109's purple lines, box 178's pink lines, and box 237's blue lines. In these boxes, the inner lines (green and orange in this diagram) diverge instead of converging at the vanishing point. Keeping in mind the angles of neighboring lines can help when planning the box's construction.
As an aside, some of your boxes were a little small in the beginning. While the size did trend larger over the course of the challenge, a few boxes here and there were still bit small, like box 73, box 144, and box 194. Drawing larger boxes is more effective for practice, as it'll help you engage your whole arm from the shoulder, and will engage more of the part of your brain that processes spatial reasoning.
Overall, you did very well. I'm going to mark this challenge as complete.
Next Steps:
Continue on to Lesson 2, and add rotated boxes with line extensions in the style of the last 150 to your warm-up exercise pool.
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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.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
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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