250 Box Challenge (ft. Feedback from Uncomfortable) || Mithril Learns to Draw Ep. 6
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2018
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Sketchbook: Strathmore Sketch, 9" x 12", 100 Sheet (yellow cover)
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Hey everyone! I'm back after quite an absence for finals, my actuary test, moving, and summer classes (still in progress) and I'm planning on being a lot more active and bringing out new videos and explore different aspects of drawing I've been waiting to do forever.
Like always, constructive criticism is welcomed and encouraged and suggestions are great too! I hope that this video helped some of y'all out and I'm looking forward to reading your comments!
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You mention in the video that you encountered the problem of having your edges line up. I think that is because you start with the three lines intersecting at the corner first. I think a better way to do it would be to draw the a face of the cube rather than the corner. This will give you more control in the angle at which your box sits and will make it easier to place in relation to the horizon line.
Hope this helps 👍
Ahh, I was wondering where you'd been! Congratulations on passing, moving etc :D I feel the same way, I still didn't feel very confident with my boxes after 250 but I did feel a lot better at drawing my boxes!
Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt kind of iffy on the boxes even after finishing the challenge. I guess looking at the people who post theirs on the subreddit, well, usually the most "perfect and pretty" are the most upvoted so it kind of skews the expectation of how it should be.
I need 10-15 minutes per box :/
Box nr 143 done...
Hey, progression is hard. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this video! I just started and got pretty frustrated because the convergence points are usually way off. It's encouraging to see your improvement throughout the challenge and think I can do it too.
Yess! Good luck! That's why there's 250 of them haha, lots of opportunities for improvement
Hey! I was glad to see you post your new video, because I've been watching all your Draw-a-box stuff and it's inspiring to see someone else as they actually go through the process of trying to draw better. It's great motivation to keep practicing and improving your skills.
While I'm still not to the 250 box challenge itself, I know I'll get there eventually. As for you, yourself, I think your skills will improve quite a bit just based on your persistence alone. :)
As for whether you should turn the page or not, I wouldn't concern yourself as much with how easy it makes these videos to watch, because while we do appreciate your documentation of the process as you go through it, it's still primarily about improving your drawing skills, so as Uncomfortable himself says, if you feel like you need to turn (rotate) the page.....turn the page! :)
Anyway, keep going on this. I'm glad to see these types of videos and look forward to seeing more.
Thanks a lot for the comment! I'm glad I could be of some help to you. I hope that this series of videos has a happy conclusion when I actually draw better in the end, but we'll see, haha. Thanks for the reassurance on the page rotating. Someone else told me that I should also model good habits for others who might be watching so I think I'll definitely keep doing it. Thanks for dropping by!
I did the 250 boxes challenges recently and have to say, it was pretty tiring and intensive. I did 10 to 30 boxes a day and in the last 50 boxes i kinda started rushing them, so some pretty ugly boxes appeared in the end. I'll probably do it later on but right now i feel like I don't have that much patience. I'll probably do like 10 or so boxes a day mixing it with other drawabox exercises instead of just plain boxes.
I feel that. It really is a long, long marathon. At first I thought it would be a piece of cake because, well, it's just boxes! But I think everyone goes through a dip where it's just SO exhausting and you want it over with. Good job for getting through it and good luck with the future of your boxes!
Your videos are really inspiring to me, thank you 😊
I'm so glad! Good luck!
U have such neat and consistent lines
You did better than I had drawn boxes than I had to stop for a bit I had a few important things that have to be done by Mon evening 1/21/19. but after it's finished I'll continue the boxes ...I did notice that drawing boxes were much tougher than it used to be when I first learned perspectives in the 3rd grade a guy that sat next to me doodled and I was fixed on the lines and boxes he had drawn so he gave me a few projects to work on I did well so Ed (his name) showed me how to draw animals horses was first then dogs and cats and birds at home my aunts and uncles bought me paints I guess I'm lucky it was much easier to follow along and I never got caught up with confidence issues. Later in Jr High school, our art teacher asks the class if we would want to draw, paint or both posters for the children in the local hospitals. I wanted to try so many different phases of art that led me into new projects. After Hi school, I was shown many ways to focus on art making it fun and separate from my work. Then I eventually lost the what made me excited and the passion I had for art now I'm retired and am working my way back into it...
I will come back to see your 250 boxes completed..
What an art journey! Well, I'm very excited that you're bringing art making back into your life. Your friend Ed sounds very wonderful. Good luck to you on your boxes :)
I'm also lefty . Thank God there's someone like me out there
Ayo, same here!
I know it seems too late after a year but to match up the inside line of the top plane, finish up the two other lines inside the box. More simplified, don't finished up the contour of the box and anticipates where do the points of the top lines will converge after you've ghosted the lines of the see through lines and placed a point of the 3 lines. Like, if you draw the Y there will be an Inverted Y and that inverted Y is your see through lines. So, finished that first after you've completed the side planes but not the top plane of the box.
mind-blowing tip, honestly
@@spoki1519 honestly, I can't believe you understand it. I couldn't even understand what I've said after 2 years🤣. Tho, I still draw the top plane first then the side vertical lines coner before the middle line(not the transparent one). Just to make sure they are parallel. Then I would draw the outside lines of the bottom plane and match that up to the top plane to make sure they are parallel. Next is the transparent inside lines, I would draw the vertical line first because that's the easiest part to draw then pick either one of the bottom transparent line and make sure that it's parallel from the top or bottom plane lines then just connect the last line.
We need to buy you a ruler XD
I've had two, but they broke :c
Mithrilda lol
I know this video is form like 3 years ago, but I'm currently going through draw a box and I am doing the 250 box challenge now. I just wanted to say that you mentioned that you didn't turn your page and then when you started to you said 'let me know if thats a problem'. But the thing is, its not about us... its about you! And what you find is helpful to you for your learning ect. xxxxx
Thank you, that's so sweet of you to say
Man this, really, really made me guilty for not taking any breaks
I'm like, 235 boxes in, and my boxes still have back corner issues
(I know in the grand scheme of things, it's not just about the back corner, it's about the mistakes that led you into making that back corner. But still)
I'm about to start this one! Not gonna lie, it looks kinda scary. Guess I'll be drawing boxes the whole week.
By the way, you mentioned in the video having to take breaks from art due to school and other stuff. I seem to always lose the habit of practicing after a while due to college and work and everything else. Do you have any tips for keeping motivated even when life gets in the way?
Good luck good luck! I think the important thing to remember is that it's not about motivation, it's about discipline. There will always be times where you don't feel like it or it doesn't seem worth it, but pushing through that feeling and doing it anyway is what will take you there. I'm sure you don't always want to study for school to go to work or whatever other responsibility you have either, but you do it because you have to. It's up to you to decide whether art is that important to you or not.
@@Mithrilda That makes a lot of sense. Becoming more disciplined with my hobbies and personal projects is something I struggle with, but you are absolutely right. This seems like a nice opportunity to work on that, though. I feel like in the end this whole process makes one learn much more than just drawing.
Thanks a lot again! Hope you don't mind that I keep commenting on old videos :b
Totally! It makes me so happy that things that I put out into the world a year ago are still helping people now
Congrats!
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Thanks, haha finally got it done :D
To anyone who actually finished this, how was it? I think I'm still at 101 boxes but I feel like I'm not improving even if I try my best, and most of the time I just end up overthinking.
Please, I know this video's old, but I really need advice.
Its okay for your boxes to not be good right now, just DONT GRIND. Its okay to fail, be confident. You're going to have a bunch of opportunities to improve your box skills when you get them as warm ups. So don't be hard on yourself 😃
Congrats!
I felt like half of the practice for me was in the having to ghost and shoulder draw 3000 lines in perspective.
I noticed that you skipped the ghosting and shoulder drawing, was there a reason?
I don't believe I ever drew a line without ghosting it. Maybe the videos going pretty fast? But I definitely remember doing a lot of ghosting haha
Always turn you page it make it easyer for you i like your videos
Thank you :) and yes I've decided to do that for all my videos going forward so I can set a good example for other learners
Are you supposed to do the 250 boxes in one session or you are allowed to do it separately? Like 15 one day 20 another day etc?
It took me three months to finish
Definitely not one session. That wouldn't be helpful at all. Split them up. And don't just focus on these dumb boxes. You can even just skip ahead to the next lesson while continuing to do a dozen or so boxes every day. Or pick up an art book etc. Just don't get stuck on drawing 250 boxes and definitely don't grind them out.
@@captain4318 thanks captain, I recently incorporated draw a box into my "curriculum " on top of Anatomy, gesture drawing , perspective etc. So I am curious to see my improvement in the next 3 to 4 months definitively not planning to grind it as I can see a potential burnout from over doing this type of excercises.
did you make the 250 cylinders challenge ? it's so hard for me cylinders it's the worst if you did it can do a video of it ? thanks because im struggling with cylinders so hard it's very confusing , ellipses it's ok but cylinders even with uncomfortable's videos it 's hazy for me
I think the 250 cylinder challenge is after Lesson 2 so I'll definitely make a video on it when I do it :)
actually no it's said to do the FORM INTERSECTIONS the last exercice on lesson 2 where I'm stuck he says : I'll be honest - this one is hard. If you aren't comfortable with rotating forms in 3D space (like the organic perspective boxes from lesson 1) you may want to try the 250 box challenge and the 250 cylinder challenge first.
how many a day did u do?im doing like 10 a day and it feels like it will take forever(i meanits jsut 2 weeks but 2 weeks of boxes is...a lot)
I don't really remember. I think it took about three months for me to finish since I took breaks and school stuff happened. Remember it shouldn't be two weeks of boxes. Half your time should be boxes and half your time is fun drawing
@@Mithrilda unfortunatly my fun drawin is just trash, 1 in 10 thousand times it ends up as an amusing drawing(dat even a 5 yo could do better btw) the rest its not even recognizable wat it should be, but ill try to do that ty
Well, that's the whole point of the curriculum right? To push you and allow you to incorporate those new skills into the things you want to draw and he does that by getting you to start doing you'd own art from the beginning. If you're not into that (and I'm not), look into a different program. I decided to go with one that doesn't require any outside drawing for fun or personal projects or anything like that. Whatever you choose, go into it 100% and follow all the instructions.
I think part of your issue is too many boxes per page. With that many you ended up making the vanishing point a lot closer then I did with 4 boxes per page. I experimented with vanishing point distance a little and I think the sweet spot is like 4-7 inches away from the box if that makes sense, if I made it too close it all got really wonky. I'm still only on box 156 so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Y u no rotate page? This is like super hard mode.
Ik it's a year later but I think the reason your boxes are like that is because some of your side are less than 90° on the draw a box video she said to make sure there 90 or above or it looks super weird or wonky
I'm at about 30 boxes now (just started recently), I spend so long thinking about where to place the points and then they still diverge in the end 😒
@@81droid81 they have a tool you can use on the sight it really helps you understand how to place point also I'd reccomend watching the video for the lesson again. Hope you figure it out have fun
@@81droid81 God, finally someone who happens to do the same. I honestly feel bad for myself that people can manage over 10 or even more a day, while I can only do 6 and they all turn out like crap.
I don't know what I'm even doing wrong, but it's just frustrating.
Congrats on passing your first Actuarial exam! Did you do P or FM?
P at the time! Now I've passed FM as well :) grinding IFM now
@@Mithrilda Congrats and good luck on IFM. I passed P a long time ago, but life got in the way and never went on to take FM. Make sure you get some internships in before you get too many exams in. Nobody told me just how important those are before I was in my senior year. Good luck!
@@BSeverance331 gotcha, are you still doing actuarial or are you on a different path now? I've gotten one internship so far so I think I'm in an okay place but no full time offers yet :cc
@@Mithrilda Nowadays, I'm a stay at home dad who recently took an interest in art and am just starting on the 250 box challenge myself. Nice job on getting an internship in. I have heard from a couple of people about them having too many exams done to get hired, because pay is tied to exams, but those are people that had already finished the first 5 so no worries there. Any idea on where about you want to work or what field? Doesn't even have to be insurance anymore for actuaries.
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How many Drawabox students here :P?
nice video, but who the hell uses strathmore sketchbook's while still learning, and for this kind of exercises...just buy the cheapest block of printpaper at least until u dominate the fundamentals, not a critique just i found it like a waste of good sketchbooks