250 Box Challenge
2:55 PM, Saturday April 19th 2025
Hey, I finished the 250 Box Challenge after a little while. Interested to see what you think, thanks!
For the first 50, while the quality of your lines is generally smooth, I notice some instances of arcing, like in box 10, box 33 . I also saw a few points where it looked like a line was redrawn multiple times, like box 20 and box 34. I also noticed lines pair off and converge towards two vanishing points, such as box 15's red lines, box 28's red lines, and box 46's red lines.
For the next 50, while your lines show improvement throughout this set, I noticed some more instances of arcing, like in box 70 and box 92. I see improvement in your convergences as well, though there are a few more instances of lines pairing off, like box 60's green lines and box 82's green lines.
For the last 150, there is continued improvement in your lines, though there are a few more instances of arcing, like in box 122, box 150, box 175. That said, I noticed fewer of them towards the end of the set.
I also see further improvement in your convergences. However, there are more instances of lines pairing off, like box 108's red lines, box 157's green lines, box 186's red lines, and box 233's green 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 get a bit small on the pages, like box 55, box 86, box 95, box 117, and box 195. 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.
All said, 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.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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