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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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