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250 Box Challenge

1:53 AM, Thursday March 13th 2025

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1:17 AM, Sunday March 16th 2025

Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Not only does the challenge help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

  • Your construction lines are looking smooth and confidently drawn.

  • You're doing a great job of experimenting with orientations. Experimenting is an important habit to build when learning any new skill, it helps form a more well rounded understanding. I hope you'll continue to display and nurture this habit in the future.

Things you can work on:

  • It's not a requirement of the challenge but I recommend practicing applying hatching in your future work. It's a useful tool to learn and the only way to improve is to practice.

  • I'd like you to experiment with proportions and rates of foreshortening more. Mix in some longer/thinner/wider boxes to see how your lines behave in different scenarios. As for rates of foreshortening, you tend to keep your vanishing points quite close to your boxes and converge your lines dramatically. Try pushing them further away, push your vanishing points off your page and try to converge your lines subtly.

  • There are times when your lines converge in pairs. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

I won't be moving you on to the next lesson just yet, each lesson builds off concepts in the previous course material so if you move forward with un-addressed issues you end up just creating further issues on top of them.

I'll be asking you to draw 50 more boxes in the style of the second section please. Be sure to experiment and push your vanishing points further away.

Once you've completed your boxes reply to this critique with a link to them, I'll address anything that needs to be worked on and once you've shown you're ready I'll move you on to the next lesson.

I know you can do this and look forward to seeing your work.

Next Steps:

50 more boxes please.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
4:32 PM, Tuesday June 3rd 2025
edited at 4:33 PM, Jun 3rd 2025

Good morning,

I know that it has been awhile, but here are the additional 50 boxes. I understand that the website and tutors such as yourself get paid through the credit system, so if a new submission for both the 250 boxes and these 50 boxes needs to be done I would understand.

Thank you for your time.

Link: https://imgur.com/a/3H64KIn

edited at 4:33 PM, Jun 3rd 2025
6:45 PM, Wednesday June 4th 2025

No worries, students are welcome and encouraged to take as long as they need to in order to complete the assigned work. That said, Tofu has moved onto bigger and better things, so I'm taking over revisions he's assigned.

It appears that the main thing he wanted you to work on was achieving more gradual convergence towards vanishing points that are farther off the page, and I think you've done a pretty good job of achieving that. He also mentioned that you had a tendency for letting your edges converge in pairs, which has been greatly reduced in your work here.

I'll be marking your challenge as complete (or more accurately, I'll be hijacking Tofu's account to do that), so you can feel free to move onto Lesson 2.

6:46 PM, Wednesday June 4th 2025

Comfy here, hijacking Tofu's account to mark your lesson as complete.

Next Steps:

Feel free to move onto Lesson 2.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
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