Uncomfortable

2016-06-01 13:26

Unfortunately, today marks the first day of me being on break for the month, so free homework submissions are on hold. You're welcome to resubmit on July 1st, when they reopen.

Uncomfortable

2016-06-03 02:42

I'm about to go to bed, so I'll be critiquing your work some time tomorrow afternoon or evening - but I wanted to draw your attention to something. You linked only to one page, which seems to have about 27 of your boxes. Having put so much time and effort into them, I'm sure you'd like me to see them all :P

Uncomfortable

2016-06-03 19:49

Your boxes are coming along nicely! Now, the first step at this point would be to take a break - you've earned it. Once that's done, I strongly encourage you to go over those boxes with a different coloured pen and try to find and correct mistakes that you've made. The most common mistakes here will be areas where your far planes come out larger than your near planes. I can see several examples of that, and the fact that you've drawn through many of your boxes should make this easier to identify (since each and every plane is defined in its entirety).

Going over your work and identifying the mistakes is one of the key aspects of this general approach to learning. That is, to try, to fail, to reflect, and to consciously apply what you learned from your reflections the next time you attempt the exercise. These corrections will play the role of reflection, since you really have to think through what you may have done incorrectly, and draw in the more correct lines.

Anyway, that said, you did a good job completing the challenge! Keep up the good work.

Uncomfortable

2016-06-07 16:27

I appreciate the thoughtfulness - but unfortunately I can't accept homework submissions right now. If people were able to submit throughout the month to hold their place in line, I'd end up with a hundred and fifty critiques waiting for me on July 1st. And then I'd cry. A lot. You'll have to hold onto it and resubmit in July.

Uncomfortable

2016-06-15 19:55

The confidence of your linework, and your line weights in later boxes are quite well done. One thing to keep in mind though when applying the ghosting method is that you want to avoid any sort of reflexive drawing. That is, putting down any marks that were not driven by planning and consideration. One common example of this is when people draw a mark, and then immediately draw another on top of it. This is usually a result of a lack of confidence, feeling that the line needs to be reinforced in order to make it more correct. Note that this is separate from adding line weight, which is itself a distinct action, driven by its own conscious planning and intent.

Lastly, I agree - you really would have benefitted from drawing through your boxes (it's why I mentioned it specifically when asking you to do the 250 box challenge). I'll be marking this challenge as complete, but I definitely support any desire you may have to do more.

Uncomfortable

2016-06-19 19:56

Very nice work! You're making great progress, and I'm really liking your experimentation with line weight. Keep doing what you're doing!

Uncomfortable

2016-06-28 18:20

I got a little confused when you kept referring to them as squares - before I checked, I was a little afraid you had actually drawn a bunch of squares, rather than boxes. I'm glad that wasn't the case!

I'm glad to see that you've completed the challenge, and that you've paid special attention to applying the ghosting method to your linework. I'm also pleased to see that you drew through many of your boxes, but frankly I do believe you should continue doing this throughout (you stopped in your last page). Also, I see that you played with dashed/broken lines in the first couple boxes of the last page - this is something I strongly advise against. As soon as a line is broken, its flow cannot be recovered, so there is a good chance that there will be slight deviations in trajectory, resulting in a line that is not true and straight. Just go ahead and draw a solid line, as it will have greater integrity.

I noticed that here and there you tried to differentiate the front-facing faces from the others by applying some hatching lines to them. That's totally fine, and a good idea - but here and there you got sloppy and just applied a loose, sloppy squiggly line going back and forth instead of individual strokes stretching all the way across the plane from edge to edge. Don't allow yourself to be sloppy - if you get tired, take a break, but never give into the urge to do any less than the best you are capable of.

Lastly, I'd like to point out that you did skip an important step - that is, going back over your boxes and reflecting upon your mistakes, marking in corrections with a different coloured pen. Drawing through your boxes has made a trend of far planes being larger than near planes. Actually going back and drawing in the corrected lines will help you become more aware of these mistakes, so you can consciously compensate for them in the future.

Anyway, I'll leave you to do that for yourself - you need not resubmit them, just make sure you do the corrections as reflection and identification of your mistakes is a big part of the learning process. Aside form that, nice work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-06-28 18:23

Nice work completing the challenge. I have just two recommendations to offer. Firstly, when going back over to do your corrections, don't just circle areas you believe to be incorrect. Actually draw in the correct line, so you can figure out in more exact terms what the mistake was. This will make you significantly more aware of the mistakes you tend to make, and will allow you to compensate for them more effectively in the future.

The other point is about line weight - I see that you added considerably more weight to the lines that are facing the viewer (as opposed to those on the opposite side of the form, which were added in order to draw through the whole thing). I fully understand why you added extra weight to those, but one thing to be aware of is how your application of weight impacts the general cohesion of the form. By having your thickest lines on the inside, this breaks the form apart. Ideally you want to have your thickest lines be those along the silhouette of the form, so that they to some degree enclose the overall form. I talk about this more here: Line Weight.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-01 17:55

Fundamentally, a lot of the things we cover in the first two lessons, as well as the box/cylinder challenges aren't things we nail immediately. It takes time and persistent practice, these big groupings (as far as quantity goes) are really just a sort of forced opportunity to get familiar with them. To put it simply, you're welcome to move onto the next lesson.

There's two things I want to point out about your set here. Three, actually, but the third is really just pointing out how immensely rushed and sloppy your last 25 or so boxes were. Don't ever let yourself do sloppy work - if you get tired or bored, take a break and come back to it later. Sloppy work is a waste of time, and doesn't benefit you at all, and may reinforce bad habits. To extend that point, don't draw things so small, as it limits your ability to think through spatial problems, and don't apply hatching lines so poorly. Take the time to stretch them across the plane from edge to edge, rather than leaving them floating - that is, if you decide t o draw them at all.

Onto the other two points. Firstly, when drawing through a form, never rely on a dashed or broken line. As soon as a line is broken, its integrity comes into question - when you attempt to resume the line, it will almost certainly have deviated from its original path. This defeats the purpose of the line in the first place. Use a single, solid line instead. Don't worry about the fact that the line is technically not supposed to be visible - we aren't in the business of drawing pretty pictures here, we're focusing on understanding how things sit in 3D space. If you're worried about getting confused about which lines are in the back, and which are in front, applying hatching lines (patiently) to your front faces can help distinguish them.

The other point I wanted to make is that you are still showing a lot of instances of far planes being larger than your near planes - even in the boxes with your corrections. This is something you need to work towards identifying on your own. A few that come to mind with this problem are 207, 95, 115. There are many others, but those came up at a glance.

Anyway, like I said. Keep practicing the basic exercises, but feel free to move ahead to the next lesson as you do so.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-01 17:56

Pretty nice work. I noticed that 250 is a bit questionable (it might be fully isometric, or the far plane might be slightly larger than the near plane) but the rest of your boxes are generally quite well done. Keep up the great work.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-01 18:02

It's kind of funny that you should ask if drawing the 'unseen' lines is okay - it's actually one of the tips I include in the notes themselves (under 'draw through your forms'). That said, the way you did it (at least for many of the boxes) is not something I would recommend in any circumstances. That is, using broken lines.

As soon as a line is broken, its integrity comes into question - when you attempt to resume the line, it will almost certainly have deviated from its original path. This defeats the purpose of the line in the first place. Use a single, solid line instead. Don't worry about the fact that the line is technically not supposed to be visible - we aren't in the business of drawing pretty pictures here, we're focusing on understanding how things sit in 3D space. If you're worried about getting confused about which lines are in the back, and which are in front, applying hatching lines to your front faces can help distinguish them.

The boxes themselves are generally okay, and they improve over the set. The broken lines sometimes send the angles of those hidden lines off a bit, but the general construction of the boxes is still fairly decent. When you started off, you were definitely still very much in the headspace of relying on explicit (or somewhat explicit) vanishing points, resulting in boxes with very dramatic foreshortening, but I'm glad that you fairly quickly moved away from this approach.

So, keep up the good work, and congratulations on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-02 17:22

Pretty nice work. Your box constructions have improved considerably, especially once you started drawing through them. I definitely want to stress that your hatching lines are kinda sloppy though - make sure your lines reach all the way across the plane from edge to edge. Don't leave any floating arbitrarily in the middle.

When it comes to line weight, there's no real trick to it - it's one of the many reasons that continuing to practice these early exercises as you move forwards is important - as the super imposed lines exercise helps you to practice for scenarios such as these.

Feel free to tackle the cylinder challenge as you see fit. It'd be good to get a decent amount of it done before you hit the form intersections, but the other exercises in lesson 2 don't really rely upon what you'll learn in the challenge.

Congrats on completing the challenge!

Uncomfortable

2016-07-02 17:26

Your constructions are improving steadily. I'm glad to see the extensive corrections that you applied (some people get lazy in this area), and your redlines seem to be on point. I do want to stress the importance of being mindful of your linework though - here and there your lines waver somewhat - keep working towards applying the ghosting method, to keep them straight and true.

Also, in the future you may feel the urge to draw things smaller - this, especially when it comes to constructional challenges which involve thinking through spatial problems, is a bad idea. Your brain often requires more space to think and figure things out, so drawing a bit larger is usually better.

Anyway, nice work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-02 17:28

I'm glad the Y method helped! Your box constructions are improving, but be mindful of your line quality. They're wobbling and wavering here and there, so you'll want to keep working on the ghosting method to keep them straight. I talk about it in this comic.

Nice work completing the challenge though - just be sure to keep up with your exercises as you continue to move forwards. These kinds of things take time and practice to fix, so you will improve as long as you don't leave the exercises behind.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-03 15:10

I can't speak about the dysgraphia - aside from knowing that there are some artists who have it that have managed to overcome the additional challenges (like this person who posted about having dysgraphia five years ago. All I can do is critique you as I would critique anyone else. One thing I don't tolerate, however, are your three questions. "Should I give up?" That's up to you, but the weight of your whining is not something that should be weighed upon my shoulders. If you choose not to give up, then you should be willing to do whatever it takes to reach your goal.

Anyway, about your boxes - your lines certainly are wobbly (look at this page from your lesson 1 work, you are clearly capable of drawing the lines straight if you put in the effort). Beyond the wobbling though, a lot of your forms are all over the place - which is essentially fine, so long as you complete the next step that was listed on the challenge page, to go over your completed work with a different coloured pen and to mark in the correct lines after reflecting upon your mistakes. I see none of that reflection, which is entirely necessary to improve. You can't simply draw and keep bullishly ploughing on forward, you need to look back at what you've drawn, identify what went wrong and correct it on the drawing so you will be more likely to remember it the next time.

What I see from you is something I see from a lot of people who believe (with varying degrees of validity) that they are predisposed to be "shite". Beyond the additional challenges they face, their presupposition that they won't succeed no matter how hard they try drives them to not try that hard at all. They rush, they skip steps, all because they think themselves special and different from the hundreds of people who've attempted the same work. Whether or not they are actually special or different is irrelevant - thinking you're a unique case won't help you, regardless of whether or not you are.

The last point I want to make is that a few times through your set, you got bored, and drew boxy letters, rather than boxes. This is something that you must absolutely not do. It's not about the boxy letters, it's about letting your boredom allow you to stray from my explicit instructions. When you do my lessons, when you submit them for critique, you do them exactly as I have stated. You follow them to a tee. You draw your boxes, focusing entirely on understanding how each one sits in space, and focusing as best you can to apply the ghosting method, and then once your 250 are done, you go back over them to identify your mistakes and mark in your corrections.

It's not about doing it perfectly - it's about doing the best you can. From what I can see, even in the area that your condition poses its greatest challenge, you are capable of doing better since you've demonstrated that ability in the past. You just need to stop wallowing in self pity and do the work.

You drew 250 boxes, so technically you've completed the challenge. Of course, it's not like completion of these lessons mean that you're done with the exercises. As I describe here, you're saddled with them for eternity. So you'd better get used to it. You don't have to limit yourself to just these exercises, and you certainly should spend plenty of time drawing whatever you want, but you'd be wise to a little each day.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-03 15:57

Your boxes are looking pretty good, so good work completing the challenge. It does appear that you could have done better to read the notes on the challenge page more carefully though. Most importantly, the bit about going over your boxes with a different coloured pen to mark out corrections and identify mistakes is important. Another important bit is to practice applying line weights to your forms.

That said, you did the main core of the challenge very well. Just be more mindful of following instructions, as this will bite you in the ass in the future.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-04 19:18

Good work completing the challenge. One thing you definitely need to be more mindful of are the issues where your near/far plane's size relationships are reversed. You're doing this quite a bit, all throughout your set so this makes me wonder if you're aware of it.

For example, if you look at box 249, the base of it is very clearly considerably larger than the top. Considering that in 3D space, these two planes are identical in size, the rules of perspective state that the one that is farther away should be smaller.

I'm glad to see that you managed to finish off the whole set, and your sense of space and construction is improving steadily - just make sure that you push yourself to be more aware of these kinds of mistakes. Including them in your warmup is definitely a good idea.

Anyway, congrats on completing the challenge!

Uncomfortable

2016-07-05 20:12

Pretty nice work! Your boxes are clearly improving over the set, both in form and in confidence. It does appear that you need more work on applying line weight, but that's not entirely abnormal - it can be challenging, and you have to remember to maintain the confidence of your stroke whilst sticking to the line you're drawing. The super imposed lines exercise from lesson 1 should help with this.

About one of those last boxes, 249 - the angles are off, causing the farther end of the box to be considerably larger than the near one.

Anyway, nice work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-05 20:20

There's lots of room to improve, but completing this challenge is a big step towards that. Looking at your set, it really does look like your focus decreased as you went through it, almost as though you tried to complete the whole thing in one sitting. That would certainly be silly. Working while you're tired is going to cause you to do sloppy work, so it's better to take breaks in between and space it out.

About your issues with predicting - remember that the ghosting method (which you should be applying to each and every mark you draw) starts off by setting out the start and end points of the line. You can plot out your box prior to drawing the lines themselves by setting out these points. Also, it was very unwise of you to stop drawing through your forms. When you started doing that, it seemed to be less about thinking about how each box fits together, and more about just completing the challenge.

Lastly, drawing your corrections in highlighter was probably not the best decision. The corrections (which should be done for the entire set) are not just about identifying mistakes, but marking in the correct lines. You can't really do that with a large highlighter.

I'm marking the challenge as complete, but only on the technicality that you did draw 250 boxes. You need to work a lot more on this, and do so conscientiously. As it stands, your current sense of form and 3D space is going to make the form intersections in the next lesson very difficult for you.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-05 20:56

Excellent work. Confident lines, solid corrections/review, and solid forms. And seven extra boxes, oh my! Keep it up, and congratulations on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-05 20:59

It's coming along decently. Couple things to be aware of:

• When you put in your corrections, don't just identify lines you think are wrong. Actually draw in the correct lines on top of your current ones. Red pen tends to show up better for this purpose.

• Your line weights do need work - right now you seem to be trying to use it in some places to identify which face is on the front, and which is in the back. Applying hatching lines to the front face can help clarify this, leaving you to apply line weight more correctly (slightly heavier lines around the silhouette of the form, lighter lines on the interior, and slightly heavier still towards one side to give the impression of dynamism and dimension).

Anyway, good work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-06 00:03

Yes, keep at it. This stuff won't produce results immediately, you have to keep pushing yourself to find a pace that will allow your brain to stop course-correcting as you draw. It takes a great deal of practice to really get comfortable with using the ghosting method, it's not just a matter of doing it or not, it's a matter of figuring out the nuance and rhythm of doing it correctly. This takes time.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-06 18:48

That's a whole lot of boxes! You certainly improve over the set - one thing that I do notice though is that near the end you start getting a little sloppy with your linework - things don't meet at corners properly, lines waver a little, etc. Pushing yourself a little is fine, but working when you're really tired and getting very sloppy is going to build up bad habits.

Also, when doing your corrections, don't just identify mistakes, actually draw in the correct lines. I notice that you kinda fell off in terms of doing corrections - for example 299's near/far plane situation is way off.

Anyway, you're heading in the right direction. There is room for improvement, but it's coming along. I think you've certainly drawn plenty of boxes for now, so feel free to move onto lesson 2 when you're ready.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-06 19:19

You're definitely making some headway - when you started off, your boxes were a bit of a mess, and upon finishing, they're considerably more solid. Still plenty of room to improve, both in box construction and line confidence, but you're getting there.

One thing I want to stress is the importance of drawing all of your lines with confidence. I can see instances where you're trying to draw your 'hidden' lines more faintly, but as a result they tend to be straight less often than your more confident lines. I totally get why you chose to do this - to differentiate between the two sets of lines so you know which planes face the viewer - but there are better ways. For instance, after you've drawn all of the lines, applying the ghosting method and executing each one with confidence, you can add hatching to one of the front-facing faces.

Anyway, keep up the good work, and congratulations on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-11 22:21

Nice work completing the challenge. One thing you can keep in mind - when doing corrections, the most effective way to do it is to actually draw in the correct lines. You'll get much more out of that than simply circling things and writing notes.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-11 22:58

Well done. I do see your sense of form and space improving over the set. I have a couple concerns though, that you should keep in mind for the future.

1. As you go through the set, the further you go, the more dramatic your foreshortening seems to get. That is, the far plane becomes smaller relative to the near plane, and does so much quicker. It's important for you to be able to work both in shallow and dramatic perspective, but shallower perspective (where the far and near faces are fairly similar in size) is much more useful, as it implies a much more relatable scale. Dramatic perspective on the other hand speaks to large scale, like seeing the top of a tall building from the ground.

2. When doing corrections, don't just circle your mistakes - actually draw in the correct line. While identifying your mistakes does help to a degree, actually figuring out what the correct line would be is significantly more beneficial, and will help you recognize what you need to work on much more effectively.

Anyway, congratulations on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-14 23:29

Your boxes are looking good, and they certainly improve over the set. Your application of line weight isn't particularly disappointing either, so I think you're being too hard on yourself. You're not going to achieve anything close to perfection this early on - but yes, you're right, the superimposed lines exercise will help with this.

On the topic of line weights though, one thing I did notice was that you generally applied more weight to the front lines (to differentiate the near/far sides of the box, since you were drawing through them as requested). The problem here is that in the notes, I talk about the importance of keeping your internal lines lighter and your external lines - the ones that define the silhouette - a touch heavier. You missed this last part, and as a result had heavier internal lines, which worked against a general sense of cohesion and togetherness for each box.

A better approach to distinguish the faces that are oriented towards the viewer is to pick one and fill it with simple hatching lines.

Anyway, keep up the good work. Congrats on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-14 23:44

You definitely do improve over the set. A couple things to keep in mind though is:

• I'm still seeing some near/far plane size relationship issues. They're not obvious, and therefore not dire, but they are there so you should work towards being able to catch them on your own.

• Remember that the ghosting method, by nature, doesn't allow you to make those quick reflexive corrections. It's not so much a matter of altering how you draw right now, but rather approaching it from a completely different angle. Thinking before every mark you put down. Generally though you are improving on keeping that reflex down, though there's more room to grow.

• Another benefit the ghosting method has that you do not seem to be making much use of is that the first step requires you to put down a point at the beginning and end of the line you wish to draw. This means that you can plot out the majority of your box before drawing any lines at all, rather than guessing as to where the lines should go and hoping for the best.

Anyway, good work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-15 19:07

Nice work. The general confidence and solidity of your constructions has definitely improved over your set. I'm really pleased to see the wealth of corrections. Keep up the great work, and consider this challenge complete!

Uncomfortable

2016-07-15 19:17

Your boxes are coming along well. One thing to keep in mind when doing corrections is that you should always focus on the sort where you actually draw in the correct lines. It isn't terribly useful to point out wobbly lines and such, because those aren't the result of a conscious decision, but rather stuff that will improve as you practice. Here you want to keep your eye on mistakes you made because you did not understand how the lines should behave. Those are the sort for which you can always actually draw the correct lines in after the fact.

As you continue to move forwards, make sure you try to play with your use of lineweight (which was mentioned in the notes for this challenge).

I only mention that because you alternated between drawing in the lines, and writing notes/circling things.

As for your funnels, they still do need work. Your third (on the bottom of the page) is wrong, in that the line (the minor axis) is cutting through the wider dimension. That would make it the major axis rather than the minor axis (review the notes in the ellipse section, there's a diagram showing the anatomy of an ellipse).

The other two are getting there, though you're still having trouble pinching down the degree of your ellipses, as they're still fairly consistent except where you hit the center.

Think of it this way - your furthest extremes should be circles, and your absolute middle should be so narrow that it's basically a flat line. Don't be afraid to let your ellipses overlap.

Anyway, keep up the good work. While you've got a ways to go, you're making good progress, and may consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-17 17:47

Nice work! Your sense of space overall does seem to improve over the set. One thing that I do want to advise you against though is the super thick outlines you've added here and there (kinda looks like it was an attempt at correcting little mistakes or something). Regardless of why you drew them, you always want to be nuanced with your use of line weight. If you start getting super thick, it's going to have the unwanted conesquence of flattening the overall shape out, making it more graphic.

In general though you're doing well, and your corrections seem to be on point. Keep up the good work!

Uncomfortable

2016-07-17 18:30

Generally pretty good. There is some wonkiness here and there that you should go back and draw corrections for (as the challenge page mentioned, you should go over your completed work with a different coloured pen, drawing in the correct lines where you feel you made mistakes). Still, the confidence and solidity of the constructions is coming along fairly well.

As for keeping your focus up, when you feel it waning, it's always important to give yourself a break so the quality does not rise and fall needlessly.

Anyway, good work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-18 17:14

Pretty well done - your boxes are generally improving in subtle ways across the set. Ultimately a lot of it really comes from practice - like you said, the Y is fairly straightforward, but getting the other lines parallel is another matter entirely. Moreover, if they were truly parallel, it wouldn't be so bad, but it's more difficult than even that - they have to be parallel in 3D space, which means that in an ideal world, they all converge at the exact same far off point... which is next to impossible when done by eye alone. But we can be close!

On the point of getting your lines the same length, one helpful point to keep in mind is that the ghosting method's first step simply involves putting down points at the start and end of a line segment. By putting down the points of your corners before drawing anymore lines, you can help estimate these lengths without really having to commit.

Anyway, nice work completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-19 19:39

Pretty nice work. One thing that jumps out at me is that a lot of your boxes tend to have somewhat dramatic foreshortening applied to them. Not ridiculously dramatic, just tending in that direction. It's important to practice both dramatic and shallow foreshortening - the latter is somewhat more useful, as dramatic foreshortening speaks to very large scale objects, while the majority of things we'll be drawing will be much more shallow.

That said, your boxes are looking solid, and you're making good use of line weight. Your corrections also appear to be by and large on point. Keep up the good work, and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-19 19:58

Generally fairly well done. The biggest concern I have comes with your corrections, in that what you're correcting isn't really a great use of your time. Don't worry about technical mistakes, focus on mistakes of understanding (where you drew a line thinking it was correct at the time, and then realized upon revisiting it that it was wrong). In this scenario, draw the correct line, don't just circle it.

These mistakes most often lead to issues with near/far planes being reversed (far plane being larger). I caught a few of these in your boxes which went undetected because you were preoccupied with identifying casual slip-ups. It's important that you go back over them and do your corrections in this manner, so that you become more aware of those particular mistakes and ultimately become more capable of consciously compensating for your tendencies in future attempts.

Aside form that, your boxes are looking quite solid. Keep up the good work, I'll be marking this challenge as complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-19 20:04

There's a few points I'd like to raise:

• Apply the ghosting method. That is, think and plan before every line, don't allow yourself to draw by reflex (like when you immediately draw another mark after drawing a line). It's a very bad habit - not an uncommon one, but one you should work towards shaking off.

• The ghosting method's first step, if you remember, involves placing start/end points for every line. You can get a general sense of how you're constructing your box without committing if you lay down the corner points, instead of drawing each line one at a time, and hoping the box comes together.

• When you make a mistake, and you recognize it, don't correct immediately. Leave it be. The reason I encourage you to do your corrections afterwards in a different coloured pen is to break the connection between drawing and correcting. Generally when you make a mistake, correcting it will just draw more attention to it. By separating corrections into a separate process after you've completed the challenge, you can gain the benefit of reflecting upon your work without reinforcing bad habits.

• When you correct, don't circle mistakes or make superfluous notes, as these aren't things you'll remember - actually draw the correct line in. Focus more on issues where you thought a line was correct when you drew it, but came back to realize it was wrong. Mistakes such as these often lead to near/far plane issues.

Anyway, nice work completing the challenge. You certainly need to focus on identifying your near/far plane issues rather than being distracted by other things, and you'd benefit immensely from actually applying the ghosting method, but generally your box constructions are becoming more confident.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-19 20:25

Very nice work - your confidence steadily improves, and overall your boxes are solid and you're making great use of line weight to reinforce the general sense of weight. Your corrections are also all going in the right direction. Keep up the good work, and consider this challenge complete!

Uncomfortable

2016-07-21 18:50

Nicely done. A little sparse on the corrections, but the ones you did put in seem to be correct. One thing I do want to point out though is that in your attempt to differentiate the lines on the near side vs the far side of the box (to diminish the confusion that comes from drawing through your forms), you've undermined the solidity and cohesion of the boxes themselves a bit. That is, by having internal lines within your silhouette carry the same weight as those along the edges. Rather than making the internal lines thicker, a rather helpful way to differentiate the two sides of the box would be to fill one near plane in with simple, consistent hatching that stretches from edge to edge. This tends to clarify things fairly easily without undermining any of the basic solidity and integrity of the form.

Aside form that, well done! You may consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-22 19:47

Very nice work! Your boxes are looking pretty good. I do think you were a little lax on your corrections, though - you've got a few that you didn't catch that show far planes larger than their corresponding near planes (though they're very subtle and easy to miss). One random example would be 208, though like I said, it's a slight divergence of your parallel lines as they move further from the viewer.

Anyway, keep up the good work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-24 16:46

Your individual lines are fine. They're confident, fairly straight, and smooth. The problem is that you don't think before every single mark you put down. If, after drawing a line, you feel you made a mistake, you immediately follow it up with another stroke. This leads to messy linework, and it draws attention to those perceived mistakes. You need to stop drawing by reflex - if you make a mistake, stop yourself. Don't correct it, just move on.

The whole reason that I insist people go over their work afterwards with a different coloured pen is so that they can gain something from correcting their mistakes without falling into the trap of immediately fixing a line just after drawing it. Also, when you correct after the fact, don't just circle things you think are wrong, actually draw the correct line (that's why you should do it with a different colour, so they can be separated out).

In general though, your constructions are confident, but your sense of space is still weak, in that you've got a lot of near/far plane problems that you haven't identified, and areas where your angles are off. Long story short, you're doing well, but you do have a fair bit to work on - going back over your work and trying to identify those mistakes will help, but there's more practice to be done.

Anyway, you've completed the challenge, so congrats on that.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-24 18:53

You've done a pretty good job of completing the challenge. One thing that jumps out at me though is that you only did corrections on a few boxes on the first page - this is something you should do for the entire set, as you have many boxes where you're showing near/far plane size issues, and others where the angles are off. Going over your boxes, identifying mistakes and drawing in the correct lines is the best way to ensure that you work to improve on them in the future.

Also, while you mentioned that your lines are a little scratchy due to the dying pens, it's important to avoid situations where you draw a mark, and then immediately reinforce it with another stroke. Drawing by reflex like this is a very bad habit, and it undermines the basic principle of the ghosting method, which is that you should think and plan before every individual stroke you put down. It's also for this reason that I insist that you do your corrections afterwards, rather than immediately after drawing a box. This way you separate the steps, and don't encourage the habit of immediately correcting mistakes (which just draws more attention to them).

Anyway, I'll mark this challenge as complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-26 20:29

Nice work completing the challenge. The biggest thing I believe you should be working on is the quality of your linework - rather than applying the ghosting method, I can see that you're allowing yourself to immediately reinforce each line you draw with more strokes, which is a very bad habit to develop. It's not uncommon, and most people do it at first, but you've been going through these lessons for now, and more than anything, I try to stress the importance of thinking and planning before every single mark you put down.

Another thing I would recommend is that you use hatching on one of the near faces of your box - this helps clarify which side of the box is near the viewer, and which side is pointed away. It can get somewhat confusing when drawing through your boxes. Ultimately this helps identify mistakes where your near planes end up being smaller than your far planes, which is one of the most common mistakes people make when drawing boxes. I do see a few cases of this at least, though with a lot of others it's hard to tell which side was intended to be the near plane and which was intended to be the far plane.

Anyway, I'll mark this challenge as complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-27 19:43

Nice work completing the challenge. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

• When drawing the initial lines for a box (before coming back to add line weight) draw each line with only a single mark, and ensure that you apply the ghosting method to each. A lot of people have the habit of immediately reinforcing a line with another stroke - this is something to be avoided, as it results in hairy, sketchy lines and breaks away from the notion of thinking and planning before every mark. Same thing goes for fighting against the urge to immediately correct an incorrect line. The reason we come back after the set is done with a different coloured pen is to separate the notion of drawing from that of correcting. Any sort of reflexive drawing is bad.

• Never use broken lines to draw through a form. As soon as a line is broken, its flow too is broken, and when you try to recapture it, it's inevitable that the direction will have shifted slightly, making it unreliable.

• If you want to clarify which side is the front and which side is the back, pick one near plane and apply consistent, tight hatching lines across it.

• Drawing smaller can leave you with much less room to think through spatial problems. Many of your boxes do appear to be quite small, so that is something to keep in mind.

Uncomfortable

2016-07-29 18:03

Great work! Nice use of line, solid corrections, and good use of line weight. Keep it up, and consider this challenge complete!

Uncomfortable

2016-07-31 17:27

Congratulations on completing the challenge. One thing that you should keep in mind as you move forwards is that when someone struggles with a concept, they tend to draw things smaller - and in every scenario, drawing smaller leads to having far less room to think through spatial problems, ultimately making challenging things more difficult. Long story short, avoid making small, cramped drawings. The smaller the drawing is, the fatter the tip of your pen will be relative to the overall drawing size, resulting in clunky, awkward lines.

Also, don't forget that the first step of the ghosting method involves placing points at the start and end of the lines you wish to draw. If you extend that to placing points roughly where you think the corners of your box should be, you can plan out your boxes without immediately committing.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-02 20:53

Pretty well done! Your box constructions are fairly solid, and they certainly improve over the set. As you continue to move forwards, you may want to try practicing applying line weight in the future, as it helps emphasize the solidity and give your boxes an extra sense of weight. Consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-03 19:03

Nice work completing the challenge. Generally you are improving, but it is very important to go over your completed work with a different coloured pen and both identify mistakes and draw in the correct lines, as instructed in the challenge page. Half the battle is being able to go back and see what you did wrong, so you can be conscious of it the next time you do a similar exercise.

Also, in the future you should experiment more with line weight. There are notes about this in the challenge page as well.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-03 19:19

Nice work! I agree that your line quality does improve over the course of your set, and I also see that your corrections are generally well done. In the future you may want to practice your use of line weight further - there are notes pertaining to this on the challenge page. Anyway, keep up the good work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-04 20:49

Very nice work! Your boxes are looking solid, and your use of line weight goes a long way to emphasize the weight of each form. Also, I'm pleased that you went over and marked in the correct lines as instructed. I'll mark this challenge as complete - keep up the good work.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-06 16:00

Very nice work! Your boxes definitely improve over the set, with your linework becoming more confident and your constructions generally feeling much more solid. Your use of line weight definitely contributes to this. I'm also very pleased to see how dedicated you were to going over your work and making corrections after the fact!

Keep up the great work, and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-08 19:46

Pretty nice work! One thing does jump out at me though - your last 150 or so boxes tend to shift towards using a much more dramatic rate of foreshortening. This is not an issue at all when tackling individual boxes, but you'll find that if you try and use this in a scene with many forms present, you'll end up with a scene that does not look cohesive. Dramatic foreshortening implies a very large scale (like looking at the roof of a building from the ground level), while a shallower rate of foreshortening will feel much more relatable in size. The latter is often much more useful, and while both are important, it may be a better use of your time to practice shallower perspective. At the very least, it would be good for you to mix them up a bit, practicing both dramatic and shallow perspective, to ensure that you're not falling into the trap of tending more towards the former.

Your boxes in general are looking good though - they're solid, and your use of line weight is effective. Just make sure that you're on top of that whole matter of keeping your foreshortening consistent when needed.

Keep up the good work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-08 19:50

Generally not bad, though when adding corrections you should be actually drawing in the correct lines, rather than simply circling things you think are wrong. Focus in problems like far planes being larger than near planes, issues where you thought the line you were drawing was correct at the time, but upon revision you discovered that they were wrong. This is the kind of reflection that will lead to conscious change in your sense of 3D space.

Additionally, your use of hatching varies from being fairly tight and straight to being a little sloppy. Make sure your lines go from edge to edge across the plane, remaining parallel and consistent. Avoid situations where your lines float in the middle of the plane, or fall short of the edge.

Oh, lastly - it's a good idea to draw a bit larger on the page. When we struggle with something, we tend to cramp up and draw smaller. Unfortunately this has the negative effect of giving us far less room to think through spatial problems, ultimately making our drawings worse. Loosen up, draw a little bigger.

I'll mark this lesson as complete, but you should go back to do the corrections as I mentioned for your own benefit.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-12 21:23

Pretty nice work! It looks like you didn't apply the drawing-through tips much early on, but shifted more towards it as you went on. Definitely important to read the notes in detail. Generally your boxes are looking solid, especially the ones where you went as far as to apply line weight to them. As you continue to move forwards, work on getting your lines to meet at corners more faithfully - leaving little gaps could undermine the solidity of your forms. Ultimately it's more of a matter of practicing your ghosting technique more than anything, to get your lines to start and end at specific points without under or overshooting.

Keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-12 22:48

It's good to see that your line quality improves over the set (starting with chicken scratching, which you should never do). Overall, it does appear that you need more practice with the use of the ghosting method to draw smooth, straight lines. Invest more time into the preparation stage (where you're actually ghosting through the motion to build up muscle memory), and then when you execute the mark, do so with a confident, persistent pace so your brain doesn't have the opportunity to try and course-correct while you draw. Achieving both accuracy as well as a straight line is a matter of balancing preparation with confidence/speed, with a healthy serving of repetitive practice.

Anyway, congratulations on completing the challenge. For your own sake, you may want to do more of these, if only to further practice applying the ghosting method. Improving your accuracy and the flow of your lines will be a great asset when attempting the form intersections from lesson 2.

By the way, I'm not sure why your badges aren't showing up next to your name - if you've unchecked the "Show my flair on this subreddit" in the sidebar, please turn it on. I use the badges to keep track of what lessons a student has already completed. At first I thought you hadn't yet completed the first lesson.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-12 23:00

Congratulations on completing the challenge. I'd say the quality of your boxes waxes and wanes at times - you tend to be much more successful when you follow the tip regarding drawing through your forms. You'd have been much better off had you done it throughout the entire set.

Additionally, when drawing through your boxes, try to maintain a confident line. Don't worry about trying to hide it or anything like that, and aim to get all of your corners to meet cleanly. It's fairly common to see students try to draw those lines with a lighter, more timid touch, in order to maintain a pretty final image (and honestly I can see that by taking the extra time to fill in one face with grey rather than applying hatching lines you're quite concerned with your finished results for many of these). Still, it does them no favours. Drawing confidently will result in you better grasping how each box sits in 3D space, and how to manipulate it in your mind. Presentation is important (don't waste lines, make sure the marks you put down are planned and thought out) but this all has value because of how it impacts the process of drawing. At the end, whether your boxes are beautiful or whether you burn each and every page, it makes no difference.

Keep that in mind as you move forwards - the priority is to understand how 3D space works.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-12 23:08

Nice work completing the challenge, but I don't see a whole lot of (or any) corrections. You should be going back over your completed work with a different coloured pen, drawing in the correct lines. You say that your mistakes have become painfully clear to you once you'd drawn them (which is great), but it's important to cement that acknowledgement in this way. Just make sure you do your corrections separately, as correcting immediately after drawing the mistake is a bad habit.

You don't have to submit that to me, but make sure you go back and do that when you get the chance.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-14 04:00

Not bad! Your increasing confidence does show. One thing I want to point out though is that simply circling your mistakes isn't terribly useful - to really benefit from that phase of reflection, you need to be actually drawing in the correct lines, so as to fix the incorrect angles in your boxes. This active correction will help solidify what's right and what's not, and more specifically why a certain mistake was incorrect, so that you are more conscious of your tendencies the next time you face a similar challenge.

Also, as you move forwards, you should definitely try practicing boxes with varying line weights - you'll find notes relating to this on the 250 box challenge page.

Congratulations on completing the challenge!

Uncomfortable

2016-08-15 00:08

Looking great! Solid constructions, nice use of line weight. Your 1's look like 7s though and I panicked that you'd drawn over 700 boxes. Anyway, keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete!

Uncomfortable

2016-08-15 00:14

Pretty nice work! Your boxes are coming together, and you've done a good job with your use of line weight. It's subtle, but it goes a long way towards making your boxes feel more cohesive. One thing that does help in terms of remembering and communicating which side is the front and which is the back (especially when drawing through your boxes) is to fill one of the front faces with tight, consistent hatching. Otherwise it's kind of easy to forget which side's which, and then it gets confusing as to whether or not you drew some far planes larger than your near planes or not.

Anyway, keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-15 19:55

Your boxes are pretty well done, but I have one big recommendation - don't draw so small. It's fairly normal when a subject is a little daunting for a student to find themselves drawing much smaller. It's a natural thing that we do subconsciously, perhaps out of timidity, like it's going to hide our mistakes. On the contrary, working smaller tends to result in much stiffer drawings, where the tip of the pen (and therefore the average weight of the lines) comes out much larger in relation to the whole drawing. Furthermore, it leaves much less room for thinking through spatial problems, and constructing boxes is all about this sort of spatial nonsense. So, instead of hiding mistakes, it tends to produce them instead.

Instead, draw more confidently - your boxes should at least be two times as large, perhaps a bit bigger.

That said, your constructions are still fairly well done. As you move forwards, it'd be nice for you to think more about the use of line weight (there's notes regarding this on the challenge page). Additionally, filling one of the front faces with hatching will help clarify which side of the box is on the front and which is the back, since drawing through boxes, while an approach you should continue applying, does tend to make that a little more confusing.

Anyway, great work completing the challenge. Keep it up.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-15 19:58

Very nice work! I have to say, I grunted and shook my head at the first page - broken lines are a pet peeve of mine, because as soon as a line is broken, its trajectory and flow will shift slightly, making it completely unreliable. I'm very glad to see that you moved onto drawing confident, solid strokes for each and every line from your second page onwards.

Generally your constructions are solid. In order to kick your boxes up to the next level, it'd be worth thinking about how you might want to take advantage of the use of line weight. I've got some notes on that subject on the challenge page, so you should check them out if you haven't already.

Anyway, keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-17 19:52

Congratulations on completing the challenge. There's a couple things I want to point out that I believe will help you as you move forwards:

• While your box constructions are okay, your line quality is still quite wobbly. It's extremely important that you be mindful of applying the ghosting method to your mark making. That is, instead of drawing a little slowly in order to improve your accuracy, you should spend all of your time ghosting through the motion, building up that muscle memory, and then executing the mark with a confident pace. This keeps your brain from course-correcting while you draw (which is why we see wobbling), and helps you maintain a straighter line. Ghosting on the other hand will help counteract the inevitable drop in accuracy that comes with drawing faster.

• I'm seeing a lot of repeated boxes - it's important that you practice a wide variety of orientations, and also vary how much foreshortening you use. That is, you should be practicing both shallow foreshortening (the far plane being only slightly smaller than the near plane) and some dramatic foreshortening (the far plane being significantly smaller). I'm seeing a lot of more dramatic boxes here - they tend to be easier to draw, but shallower foreshortening is much more useful, as you're only going to see the dramatic stuff when your scale gets very large (like looking at the top of a tall building from the ground floor). If you just practice a box from one angle, or in one kind of foreshortening, you're not going to improve in general, you'll just improve in terms of that one configuration.

• When you apply hatching lines, never do so sloppily. Always be mindful of drawing consistent, tight, parallel lines that stretch across the plane from edge to edge. No scribbling, no letting lines fall short of the edge, no lines floating in the middle of a plane.

You've got plenty of room to grow, but you are making good progress and I feel that this additional direction should help keep you on the right track.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-18 02:14

Wow, you're right - you really start to hit your stride after that first hundred. Once you get into your second hundred, your confidence hits a real high point. It's funny how line weight does that - flimsy uniformly-thick-lined boxes will always feel a little flimsy, but adding just a little bit of dynamism, even if the boxes themselves are still weak helps a lot. Then that added confidence boost helps to bring the construction up to match, and everything starts going well.

You've done an excellent job. Keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete!

Uncomfortable

2016-08-18 22:36

Congratulations on getting through all 250 boxes and completing the challenge. I have to admit that I agree, your attempts to add line weight are *super chicken scratchy, and there's no reason for that. Look at this page. It should look familiar, as it's your super-imposed lines exercise. The lines there are waaaay longer than any of the marks on these boxes. I'm not sure what you're doing differently here, but your approach is certainly different. You are DEFINITELY capable of doing much better than that.

Next, here are your ghosted lines from the last lesson. Again, they're way longer than the lines you used for these boxes, and significantly straighter and smoother. Could it be that you weren't applying the ghosting method, or perhaps in the face of drawing 250 boxes, you got a little overwhelmed and didn't put as much effort into it?

That's not abnormal at all, but it is something to work on. Specifically, it's developing a disconnect between the volume of work before you (or perhaps the repetitiveness of it), and the amount of effort or time you invest in each individual task. It's purely psychological, and relates more to patience than actual skill. You have the skill for it, you're just rushing.

Now, the last thing I want to add is that you're drawing your boxes ridiculously small on the page. This is also going to be a factor when it comes to the construction of the boxes themselves. When you work smaller (which is a common way people tend to try and deal with a lack of self confidence), you end up creating two major problems that tend to make your boxes worse:

• You make it far more likely that you're going to start drawing from your wrist (which is probably what you're doing all throughout, which makes the wobbly and scratchy lines understandable - though not forgivable)

• You rob yourself of the space you need to properly think through spatial problems, leading to all kinds of blunders when it comes to thinking through the rules of perspective.

So, like I said - you drew your boxes, so you have completed the challenge. These are some things you'll definitely want to keep in mind as you move forwards. Having been confronted with the stark difference in your previous work and this stuff, you'll probably want to draw some more boxes for your own sake. Like I said, you've already proven yourself to be capable of waaaay better. You've just momentarily forgotten.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-19 23:14

Congratulations on completing the challenge. Looking at your boxes, one thing's got me really, really confused. You're shading in one of the box faces (which we usually do to one of the front faces in order to clarify which side is facing the viewer and which side is facing away, since it can get confusing when drawing through the boxes. More often than not though, the plane you're shading in is way more likely to be the far plane.

If you drew these boxes with that particular plane intended to be the near plane, then a whole heck of a lot of these are backwards, with their near planes being smaller than the corresponding far planes. What I think is more likely the case is that you went back and shaded them in after the fact, and just shaded in the wrong face much of the time.

Let me know though if that's not the case, as the whole near/far plane size relationship is quite important, and is something we'd definitely have to correct.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-19 23:23

Congratulations on completing the challenge. You're certainly making progress, but keep at it (while you continue to move forwards through the lessons). Here's a few extra things to be aware of:

• When going back over to do corrections, don't worry about 'mistakes' where your lines have overshot or something like that. Focus on mistakes where you believed something to be correct initially, but upon revision found it to be wrong.

• Never use dashed/broken lines for anything. They're untrustworthy. As soon as a line is broken, its direction will shift slightly. Do this several times over, and your lines going to have a significant trajectory shift. Stick to solid, straight lines.

• Additionally to practicing achieving solid boxes (and continually honing the use of the ghosting method to achieve straight lines), you should give some thought to playing with line weight to add some dynamism and added solidity to your boxes. Check the notes on the challenge page, there's some on the use of line weight that should be helpful.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-20 16:15

Nice work! Your general sense of space and confidence with these boxes has definitely improved over the set. Your corrections also appear to be on point. Keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-21 19:41

Congrats on completing the challenge. Here's a couple things that might help moving forwards:

• Your set leans a little bit more towards boxes with particularly dramatic foreshortening. Be sure to practice just as much (if not more) with boxes with shallower foreshortening, as they tend to be way more common. Dramatic foreshortening implies a larger scale (like looking at the roof of a tall building from the ground floor, the roof's going to be considerably smaller), shallow foreshortening (where the near and far plane are relatively close in size, the far plane being only slightly smaller) implies a more relatable scale, like objects you can move with your hands.

• You filled one of your front-faces of your first box (number 1) with hatching. I definitely recommend doing this for all your boxes, as it helps to clarify which sides face the viewer and which sides face away. This can get a little tricky to discern while drawing through boxes, which also makes it difficult to figure out if you've accidentally drawn the near plane as being smaller than the far plane in certain situations.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-22 22:04

Looking pretty good! I definitely don't agree with how you stopped drawing through your boxes halfway through, but I'm glad that you started doing it again some way in. Overall your use of line weight from 12-170 is nicely done. I'd say your last two pages are even better, because it's a little more subtle but still noticeable.

Keep up the good work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-22 22:27

Reasonably nice work. Your use of line weight is also quite good. The only thing that I caught was that near the end on that last page, you've got a box that just doesn't look right, but that wasn't corrected.

If I'm looking at it correctly (in terms of which side is towards the viewer and which side is away), your near/far planes are dramatically reversed. If I'm looking at it the wrong way, then your angles are all mangled. The box in question is 242.

Anyway, you're generally doing a good job, and your line quality isn't anything to be too worried about. Just keep at it, but for now it's fine.

Consider the challenge complete!

Uncomfortable

2016-08-22 22:56

Not bad. Don't forget to go over your boxes with a different coloured pen, making in the correct lines where you notice mistakes. Reflecting upon your work in this way is an important part of improving.

Additionally, as you continue to work on these in the future, it's definitely worth experimenting with adding line weight to your boxes. There's some notes about this on the challenge page. They'll help kick your boxes up to the next level.

Congrats on completing the challenge.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-22 22:59

Pretty decent work. One thing I noticed is that it can be a little tough to tell which side of the box faces the viewer and which side faces away (since we're drawing through our boxes). Shading in one near plane with hatching lines can help clarify this considerably.

Also, as you continue to work on this in the future, consider playing with line weight to help kick your boxes up to the next level. There are notes in regards to this on the challenge page, be sure to check them out.

Consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-23 18:50

Fairly well done. I have a couple recommendations:

• When doing corrections, try to find a pen that's not quite so thick. I see that you were going in the right direction in terms of trying to draw the correct lines instead of just identifying potential mistakes, but since the highlighters you were using were so thick, they don't really clarify what the line should have been.

• Consider playing more with your line weight in the future - I've got some notes about that on the challenge page

Aside form that, you're doing great. Keep it up, and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-23 18:53

Excellent work. The difference between those first boxes in May and the more recent ones is palpable. Your lines are considerably more confident, your weights make the boxes dynamic and the hatching is consistent and clean.

It's definitely still worthwhile to go over the set with a different coloured pen to make corrections to whatever mistakes you might see after giving your eyes a chance to rest (overall you've done well but I'm sure if you look carefully you'll find a few). Reflecting upon your mistakes is the most effective way to learn from exercises like this.

Anyway, keep up the great work and consider this challenge complete.

Uncomfortable

2016-08-23 19:29

Pretty nice work. I noticed a few (like 237 for example) where you didn't catch your far planes being larger than your near planes, but generally your corrections are solid. One thing I want to stress though is the importance of ensuring that your lines meet at clean corners, rather than stopping short or being misaligned. This is of course just a matter of practicing the ghosting method more. From what I'm seeing it's possible that you're skipping the first step, and not placing small points at the start and end of an intended line. Make sure you spend enough time on all three stages of the ghosting method to ensure that your lines come out as clean and straight as they can.

Anyway, keep up the good work and consider this challenge complete.