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6:41 PM, Sunday March 19th 2023

What Tofu is asking you to do for the first 10 boxes is to start by placing the actual vanishing points on the page, as actual dots, then as you add each line to define your box, actually have it converge towards one of these three dots. While this will basically give you no choice but to draw boxes with very dramatic, rapid convergences (since the vanishing points will be right on the page and not far off the edges of the page), it will help you focus more directly on how your lines are converging.

Then for the other 10, you'll draw your boxes as usual (without actually drawing the vanishing points on the page, which will allow you to choose between shallower foreshortening where the vanishing points are far away and dramatic foreshortening where the vanishing points are closer), while retaining that focus on how your lines are converging with one another.

7:42 PM, Sunday March 19th 2023
edited at 3:56 AM, Mar 20th 2023

Is this perfect way to do it? If it isn't im sorry.

https://imgur.com/a/5uDz99c

edited at 3:56 AM, Mar 20th 2023
6:07 PM, Monday March 20th 2023

That is mostly correct, although you wouldn't draw your lines all the way back to the vanishing points. So here's what I mean. As noted in pink, you draw those specific 3 vanishing points first, then draw the box trying to aim each edge so that it aligns towards one of them.

That's how you approach it for the first 10, then for the next 10 you do it without drawing those vanishing points on the page.

6:46 PM, Monday March 20th 2023

ohhhhhhh omg i got it now. im so sorry, my mind sucks at thinking. thank you

11:08 PM, Thursday March 30th 2023

Hi, I will be putting my 20 boxes here. I finally understand now.

https://imgur.com/a/3EqOGMm

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