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250 Box Challenge

1:06 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

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By the end of all this I feel like my greatest improvement was in my line quality. Initially I struggled against the urge to "fix" my lines by drawing over them. I managed to work that out of my system for the most part by the end of all these boxes. It improved my hatch marks, line confidence, and accuracy.

The first few pages I definitely darked the outline too much. It wasn't until about box 45 that Benj helped me see that I was still darkening too much. Around that point, also on his advice, I started focusing solely on 3pp with the Y-method rather than mixing in 1pp and 2pp.

By box 250 I managed to work out a way to unfocus my eyes a bit to better judge the relationship of the lines and dots. That, combined with developing a better feel of the relationship between the lines, I wasn't surprised as often by the random line that wandered off to its own vp.

Sitting here at box 250, I am definitely far from getting them perfect but I am happy with my improvements. I have taken pictures of a few of these pages before I added the projection lines. I am wondering if I should post them.

As always, I appreciate any and all critiques.

Thank you, everybody, for helping me as I worked on all this!

Benj is a gentleman and a scholar!

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2:27 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020
edited at 2:28 PM, Feb 5th 2020

Buttering me up in the description is no guarantee that I'll show up to critique you! Wait...

Jokes aside, this submission shows a considerable degree of improvement. The first thing that jumped out at me was the number of dots you'd place to determine the direction of the lines in the beginning, vs. the end. It proves that you've become able to 'see' the VP in your head, which, especially on those non-cube boxes, is a considerably difficult thing to pull off. The back lines are still a little wonky at times, but, since their job is to make the presence of the slightest error in the silhouette lines painfully obvious, this isn't exactly an issue. I do, however, recommend placing that point in a such way that all lines are equally 'wrong', rather than placing it so that 2 convergences are 100% correct, and 1 is 100% incorrect. Outside of that, I'm pleased to see the improvements in the thickening lines and the hatching lines. It may not be immediately obvious, but that level of subtlety does a lot to aid your boxes.

Anyway, consider this challenge complete. Nicely done!

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edited at 2:28 PM, Feb 5th 2020
2:46 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

I do, however, recommend placing that point in a such way that all lines are equally 'wrong', rather than placing it so that 2 convergences are 100% correct, and 1 is 100% incorrect.

Yeah, that was one thing I came up against a lot more near the end.  For some reason it never occurred to me to try and give up a little correctness for the other two when trying to fix that third.   I will definitely keep this in mind as I go forward.

Thanks!

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