250box challenge. Should I extend the drawn line or drawing through the point where I wanted the line to be.

10:33 PM, Friday May 15th 2020

When I draw a box and draw a line badly so I miss the point where I wanted the line to be, should I when extending the lines with color to check convergence, draw through the point and therefore the line I wanted to make or the line I have actually drawn? Because I already know the badly drawn line is off and it wouldnt really help me understand my thinking of the vanishing points when I extend a badly drawn line where the convergence is just off because I have drawn the line badly.

Depending on the type of Box I draw, a line being of by just 0,5mm can sometimes make my convergence go of the chart but when I draw through my actual point it shows that if I had drawn the line where I wanted it to be, they would have all met at nearly the same vanishing point. So drawing perfectly accurate on point without a ruler is for me a bigger problem in this challenge then actually thinking about the 3D space, which in my opinion would miss the actual point of the exercise.

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12:40 AM, Saturday May 16th 2020

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.

2:13 AM, Saturday May 16th 2020

Thanks, I will do that. I already started doing the ghosted lines and ghosted planes exercise daily as a warm up. Maybe I just do too much boxes in one sitting and thats why my lines get more sloppy over time. Will continue practicing my ghosted lines and will take more breaks while doing boxes.

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