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12:08 PM, Saturday February 12th 2022

Hello again. Looks like you're off to a nice start with these. You're doing a much better job aligning your extension lines now, good work.

Most of your sets of lines look quite parallel. When we draw a box in 3 point perspective, we want each set of lines to converge towards a vanishing point (VP) Even if the vanishing point is a long way from the box, off the page, the lines will still get closer together as they get further from the box.

Something else you can try as you go through the challenge, is to add line weight to the outer edges of your boxes to reinforce the silhouette. You should do this by adding a single, ghosted superimposed line to each line you want to add weight to. It's optional, but good practice.

Lastly, I think I can see a few places where your lines have been chewed by erasing parts of them. Try to treat your tools as if you were working in pen and ink. No undo, no erase. This is to encrourage students to take their time with every mark, and to draw lines with clear purpose and intent. We all make mistakes. Hiding them by erasing parts of your work just makes it harder for other students to help you.

1:25 AM, Monday February 14th 2022

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365180330103013388/942592064867164160/Practice_49.3.jpg

11:39 AM, Monday February 14th 2022

Hello.

Looks like you’ve hatched the correct face on all of these, good job.

But you’ve only extended half your lines and I have to ask, WHY?

It is unlikely to be a misunderstanding, as you extended them all correctly on your first page, and unlikely to be a lapse in concentration or forgetfulness (which would cause one or two random missing extensions, not exactly half the set.) So, why did you choose to only extend two lines from each set? I’m curious to your reasoning for that. All 4 lines should converge together to a single point, so by only extending 2 of them you’re missing some crucial information that you can take to inform your future boxes and improve your work.

You’re still drawing most of your lines mostly parallel. There’s a bit of convergence on the blue lines on 9 and 10, but not as much as I might hope or expect, given the feedback I wrote for your previous page. At the moment all your boxes either have very shallow foreshortening or none at all (which is a form of isometric drawing and considered a mistake in this challenge) You can check Comfy’s explanation on foreshortening here https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes/1/foreshortening and here’s an example of boxes with a variety of foreshortening https://i.imgur.com/1RupC9J.jpg see how all sets of lines converge, and for the more dramatic foreshortening they converge to a point on the page?

My last point has nothing to do with drawing and is rather blunt. Manners cost nothing. Even if you’re a child, even if English isn’t your first language, I’m sure you know how to say please and thank you. I have now spent over two hours and written over 2k words trying to help you and at no point have you acknowledged that anything I have said has been helpful or worthwhile to you. Hopefully you’re getting help on the Discord (I haven’t checked on it as I’m logged out for a week for mental health reasons) Fair warning- if you send me another image without context I’m just going to ignore you, because I believe my time and energy would be better spent helping other students who appreciate my efforts. Good luck.

1:44 AM, Tuesday February 15th 2022

Okay first you are right, I do know how to reply and give my thanks for those who do help me. I have no excuse not to and have taken this long, just like I have no idea why I didn't take the simple time to thanks for the help you are giving me and also taking time to do so. Yes all of this has been helpful like the discord but some questions you are asking me why things are coming out the way they are I can't answer simply because I don't know for these boxes. I think it's just a lack of understanding and practicing as there are still 240 more boxes to go and I've just started on this challange. As well as trying to think in different spaces which tbh, given how this is now the first time for really learning to draw the right way, means even harder work and breaking old habbits over a 9+ year journey attempt to improve.

Hopefully this will clear up anything bad earlier and here are boxes 11-15. While things were fixed up with all points having a line, worst boxes, not even sure if 11-15 need to be redone: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365180330103013388/942959180980047872/Practice_50.3.jpg

9:13 PM, Tuesday February 15th 2022

I don't know if you got this but I guess I'm being ignored. It doesn't matter anyways; I have to put this challange on pause to get the right materials it seems.

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