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I use rotating the page as the way to estimate angles:

• Rotate the page

• Do a couple ghosting motions

• If angle feels off then rotate the page again

• repeat this once or twice to get the angle almost perfect

• ghost once or twice

• execute line

Making a complete box becomes just a matter of rotating the page in the right directions. I look at the part of the box that's drawn so far to tell how much to rotate the page.

Honestly, go for it. Whenever it comes to determining whether or not something is going to end up being a harmful crutch, I ask myself whether or not a student would be able to do something like this in any circumstance. Given that you're just using a pen and holding it as a straight edge to check how a line is going to behave, that's something you'd be able to do regardless of the circumstances. So, I don't see it as something harmful.

You can go ahead and draw through the point you intended, but ultimately either is fine. One could argue that if the line is that far off, then that is the more immediate issue to address (focusing on your use of the ghosting method), but as far as the box construction goes, drawing through the line would tell you more about your actual intent.

As far as improving your use of the ghosting method, make sure you're doing warmups consisting of 2-3 exercises from Lesson 1 at the beginning of each sitting.

As Yoyobuae mentioned, you don't actually have to keep the vanishing points all in your head together at the same time. Instead, think of the lines themselves as constantly pointing towards the vanishing points.

When you've got your Y down, each part of the Y points towards the vanishing point, but that vanishing point is not yet set. Once you place your second line of a given set, a more concrete vanishing point will exist (where those two lines intersect). And therefore, once you eventually have to draw the third line of that set, you'll be looking at the two existing lines and letting them tell you roughly where their vanishing point is.

At any given point, you should only be thinking about 4 lines (all of which belong to the same set, and are parallel to one another). Some of these lines have been drawn on the page, and some have yet to be drawn. But all you need to think about is these 4, and nothing else. Don't worry about the other sets of lines, the lines with which the one you're drawing shares a corner, nothing. Just those four lines.

You draw all the dots for the entire box right after you've drawn the initial Y. You don't need to keep anything in your head. You then go thru several rounds of adjusting the various dots, always looking at the entire box as a whole. You will end up with lots of dots floating around, the video explains this is OK.

Also you don't always need to directly think about vanishing points and where they are. It's useful to do so when planning the box initially. But after you have the "template" for your box using dots then you can start looking at the box itself and how it converges along the 3 different axis.

Just finish the exercises and submit the work. Someone will tell you where you need help and that should give you a better idea on what to do to improve. We are all our own worst critics.

You're looking at this in the wrong way. This isn't grade school where you're expected to pass a test, and everyone will be super disappointed in you if you don't. The homework submissions themselves are not tests. What you're doing is collecting a body of work that will help another identify whether you've understood the concepts covered in the lesson. If you haven't, then what you're doing wrong will be explained to you, and additional pages may be requested to allow you to demonstrate that you do now understand the concepts.

That's all it is. You're not being graded, nor are you being judged as a person. You're here to learn and understand concepts, and we're simply ensuring that this happens.

If you are dilligently following the instructions of the lesson then you are very likely to pass the review. Re-submitting happens when someone clearly failed to understand the lesson material and fails to avoid even the mistakes explained in the lesson.

And while re-submitting aint that bad (usually it's just one page or two you need to re-do, not the whole thing) the failure rate is very low for lesson 1 and the boxes exercises (under 10% I'd say). From lesson 2 onwards it gets more difficult (both in terms of difficulty of the exercises and because Uncomfortable does the official critique).

Your superimposed lines look smooth and consistent. Some of your ghosted lines are a bit wobbly and some of them have a slight arc but they do follow the correct trajectory. For the table of ellipses, you didn't draw through some of your ellipses on the second page but you did draw through most of them. The angles of the ellipses looks fairly consistent within each section. Your ellipses in planes look smooth with minimal deformation and they are nicely snug in the planes. The spacing between ellipses in funnels looks good and they look fairly well aligned to the minor axis. I noticed some wobbly lines for your box exercises and I would recommend working on ghosting while aiming for a confident line. A confident line is much more useful than a wobbly one. Overall, well done and I think you are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge.

Your superimposed lines look smooth and consistent. Most of your ghosted lines look straight and follow the correct trajectory. For the table of ellipses, you did a good job fitting the ellipses snug with in each section and their angles are mostly consistent. Your ellipses fit nicely in the planes and have minimal deformation. The spacing between ellipses in funnels is good and they are fairly well aligned with the minor axis. It looks like there may be some line corrections on your organic perspective exercise. I recommend more ghosting and aiming for one confident stroke. Accuracy will improve over time with practice. Overall, well done and I think you are ready to move on to the 250 box challenge.