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8:45 PM, Friday April 16th 2021

Hi Kamiyasora,

Thanks a bunch for your critique and your suggestions, it's much appreciated!

I'll for sure keep an eye on making my lines too parallel. In an attempt to keep the foreshortening shallow - as suggested in the lesson - I went a bit too far overboard on a some of them, which as you mentioned in some cases also resulted in divergent lines.

Unfortunately the divergent lines are very much due to plotting incorrectly, as I'm well aware that it's something which is not supposed to be happening. It is actually quite worrysome to me that it seems from these 250 boxes that I do not know how convergence in 3 point perspective works - so I'll for sure draw more boxes before moving on.

Thanks once again for your input!

1:18 AM, Saturday April 24th 2021

If it is a plotting problem, practicing Ghosted Lines exercise might help you. You can use dots to plan out the lines of the box before drawing the actuaal line, and if you think that one dot isn't working for you, you can just draw another one that will create a better line. I had the same problem in my first pages too, but using dots and the ghosting method really helped me planning my boxes better.

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