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7:44 PM, Tuesday March 21st 2023
Hi again! All right, the rest look fabulous, and your plan sounds solid. Good luck with lesson 2!
Also, if you haven't tried it, the drawabox discord channel has a critique exchange, where you do 5 critiques and then your submission is added to a spreadsheet that gets critiqued faster. (Sometimes lessons are critiques fast, and sometimes posts languish for a year without a critique.)
Next Steps:
Good luck with lesson 2!
9:20 PM, Wednesday March 22nd 2023
Thanks so much!!
I knew the discord channel existed but I hadn't joined before (I get nervous talking to people compared to text-based posts), but the critique exchange system sounds great and I will definitely check it out. Thank you for letting me know!
3:43 AM, Thursday March 23rd 2023
As far as I know, the discord is all just used as text threads (otherwise there would be a thousand people talking all at once). The one you want is "critique exchange." Also, you can post stuff in each lesson thread as you go and ask questions. (They have a thread for lesson 1, 2, etc, plus the different challenges.)
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3:44 AM, Thursday March 23rd 2023
I thought I marked it as complete after seeing the rest of your boxes, but am doing it again just in case!
Next Steps:
Lesson 2, check out the discord
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6:22 PM, Monday March 20th 2023
Hi Penguin!
I'm afraid something went wrong with your imgur upload, only the first 100 boxes are visible. If you are able to fix that, I'll be sure to give everything a proper review.
2:26 PM, Tuesday March 21st 2023
Hi Taelia!
Thank you for pointing that out! I think I closed the imgur page before the uploading completed... I've created a new imgur post which should have all 250 boxes here: https://imgur.com/a/3fhLHF2
Thank you again!
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8:05 PM, Monday March 20th 2023
Nice work! I can only speak to the first 95 boxes, though. I'm assuming you probably completed this challenge, and imgur glitched, because I don't see the other 155.
My first thought on opening this was "pretty linework" for both lines and hatching. Looks like you have a decent grasp on convergence. These are good.
My second is that a lot of the boxes are fairly similar, with roughly the same starting "y" angles and line lengths. You can avoid this by using the y-generator tool. Getting a variety, and not just cubes, gives you a better experience. Long tube shaped boxes (something you might ship a sword in), flat, wide boxes (something that might fit a book), etc are good to try as well. Likewise, it's good to do some convergences that would end off page--most of yours have VP's that end at similar distances from the boxes.
Next Steps:
Please post the other 155 boxes. (You've probably done them, but I can't see them yet.)
If you haven't done them, then when you do them, add variety to your y-angles, y line lengths, and amount of convergence.
2:32 PM, Tuesday March 21st 2023
Hello,
Thank you for the critique, as well as letting me know about the missing boxes! I made a new imgur post that should have all 250 boxes here: https://imgur.com/a/3fhLHF2
I agree with how a lot of my boxes fall under a similar shape (closer to cubes rather than the wide/long ones), with a similar Y shape/VP distances. I tried to create different Y shapes with varied angles/lengths, but I found that a larger variation than what I expected was often necessary, and that they still ended up looking fairly like cubes even when I thought I'd made 1 length longer. Moving forward, I'll keep in mind that I tend to draw lines that I'm more comfortable with, and in order to avoid that I'll spend more time on the planning stage so that the shapes I end up drawing are closer to what I imagined.
Again, thank you so much!
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