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12:22 AM, Monday January 23rd 2023

Sorry for the late response. The boxes in your first page are not done according to instructions. Perhaps I was a bit unclear with my wording, and if that was the case I apologize. What I meant was that all of the boxes of page one should have been with all three vanishing points for each one inside the page and if you felt you needed it, you could place explicitly with a mark the vps for the first 3. You boxes should have looked like some variation of this: https://imgur.com/a/2NY6Qdi

Your first 3 boxes by contrast have just one vp relatively close to the boxes, while the other 2 are well outside the page, so much outside that the lines look actually parallel. In your other boxes the perspective you used is always very shallow, resulting in boxes that look almost more isometric than in perspective, and some recurring problems like diverging lines do show up here again.

The reason why I insisted that your first page should consist only of boxes with very visible convergence is that with these kind of viewing angles you can get a much clearer idea of what's happening to parallel lines when you look at them from an angle because you can actually see on the page where are they converging. Once your visual memory has some experience with these cases, more complicated ones, like boxes with far away vps, will naturally be easier than before.

I don't want you to burden much more with other exercises, so I will ask you just one last page of 6 boxes before I will mark this lesson as complete. I'd like you to try again to stick to the instructions for the first page I gave you the last time: the boxes should look somewhat like the one in the linked image. Of course you should try to vary shape, viewing angle and distance of the vps, but in any case for each box their 3 vps must be somewhere inside the page.

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One last page of six boxes (all vanishing points must be within the page)

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3:10 AM, Wednesday January 25th 2023

Its alright I didn't wait that long for the reply, and I'm willing to do as many as it takes to understand.

that example box did made things make sense, I wasn't sure if I was doing it right on the first box but I caught on and I think the rest were done properly

I added the page to the same Google Drive folder (003)

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1doMwndOegMGljMw3GyPb8IhmOmcusBJk

6:09 PM, Sunday January 29th 2023

These are looking better, 2, 3 and 6 in particular. Only thing I'd like to point out is that box 1 has the top face hidden, like it happens in 2 point perspective. This doesn't normally happen to rectangular boxes in 3 point perspective since it's the perspective of an object with all of its faces oriented at an angle with respect to our line of sight (by contrast, in 1 point we are observing the boxes with their "depth lines" parallel to our line of sight and both verticals and horizontals perpendicular to it, while in 2 point we are in the same situation as in 1 point, but with the box rotated around a vertical axis). I advise you to keep exercising in your warmup routines on box-related exercise. Slowly but surely, you will see improvement. As a last line of advice, I will drop here one of my other critiques where I give some tips on how to improve your back corners (the method I use is illustrated in the replies): https://drawabox.com/community/submission/87XZS5GL

That being said, I'll go on and mark your lesson as complete. Hope you will have some fun with lesson 2. Good luck and good work!

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2:09 AM, Monday January 30th 2023

Thank you for you time and guidance

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