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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.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
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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