12:15 AM, Saturday February 11th 2023
Tofu asked that I take a look at your work and offer whatever additional feedback I could to help you along.
There are a number of major issues I can see present in your latest attempts, which largely come down to whether or not you're adhering to the instructions as closely as you can.
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The first point is that your attempts here all differ quite a bit. It's unclear which specific approach you intend to use throughout the rest of your work, or if you're still trying to feel things out. If it's the latter, don't. Follow the instructions as closely as you can, and if you find your approach changing from box to box, that suggests that you need to go back and look at (and even take notes on) the specific instructions. The instructions don't change, so your approach should remain consistent as well.
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To that previous point, I will note that it's possible you're not maintaining a consistent approach because you may have tried a box, felt it was going wrong, then abandoned it to try again. This is also something you should not be doing. Every box you do counts, and each one should be taken to completion even if you can clearly see that things have gone very wrong earlier in the process. It is the mistakes we make that tell us where we're perhaps not paying enough attention, or where we're misunderstanding something - but we cannot assess that if we don't first commit to a course of action, and then go back to analyze them afterwards.
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You don't appear to be consistently applying the line extensions to each set of lines. Sometimes you extend all your lines, sometimes you extend only some, sometimes you extend none.
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I noticed that you are in some cases extending both away from and towards the viewer - for example, this one where the vertical lines are extended upwards (which in this case is towards the viewer). Doing this is going to confuse you even further, because you're not going to know which direction is which. Only extend in one direction - away from the viewer.
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For the boxes along the top of this page, you're not drawing through your boxes, which is required for every box throughout this challenge.
In addition to the sections Tofu linked you to before, I also recommend you take a look at this video from ScyllaStew which goes over her approach for constructing boxes.
And lastly, I noticed that Tofu asked that for the first 30 boxes, you actually place your vanishing points on the page itself (as in, actually drawing them, then with each edge you then draw, you'd try to line them up with their given vanishing points). You do not appear to have done that. If you're unsure of what he meant by that, please ask for clarification. The intention is to scale back the difficulty a bit by allowing you to actually see the vanishing points you're aiming for as you draw each line. Then after those first 30 are complete, you go back to doing the exercise without having those vanishing points actually marked on the page.
I should also mention that if you're still having trouble, we do have a large community on our drawabox discord chat server. You may want to try getting feedback in between submitting your revisions there, to make sure you're on the right track (since we have limited resources, so our TAs cannot give feedback a little bit at a time).