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6:44 AM, Thursday July 16th 2020
edited at 6:45 AM, Jul 16th 2020

Hmmm.

Box 285 is well done. The lines all converge to their respective vanishing points, which are further off than last time, though still dramatic. The other boxes have a mixture of mistakes, some new, some old. Box 281, for instance, has its vanishing points on the page, quite close to itself, too (new mistake.) Conversely, boxes 283 and 284 have some lines that seem ignore them entirely, like the blue lines on the former, and the red lines on the latter (old mistake, which I thought we’d fixed.) I’m, in all honestly, not 100% sure on how to go about fixing this, so what I’ll recommend you do is move on to lesson 2, but continue practicing these in your spare time. I’ll further recommend sticking to dramatic foreshortening (even plotting the vanishing points down, if you wish) until comfortable, before moving on to more shallow foreshortening. Do so gradually, too. Good luck.

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12:59 AM, Friday July 17th 2020

i appreciate all the time you've spent helping me out. i can notice things ive messed up after ive drawn it but i have a really hard time knowing how long to make a line or what angle to make it before i have drawn it. if you have any tips on this that would be super. how many boxes would you recommend i should draw daily until i get it down?

6:43 AM, Friday July 17th 2020
edited at 6:45 AM, Jul 17th 2020

I’d recommend doing 1 box at the end of each warmup (so 1 box per day.) As for tips, it’s really as simple as being conscious of the vanishing point. That’s why I recommended you start off with it close, and on the page, so there’s no way to miss it, then push it a little further, and have it be invisible, so it’s not as obvious, but still close enough for you to be able to visualize it, and the next plan would’ve been to have it be really far off, but I suppose it’ll take some time to really internalize these things. That’s perfectly fine, by the way. Just, every time you draw a line, think about where it’s going, and whether it’s respecting what the other line(s) are saying about where the vanishing point is located. The subtleties might take a second, but, for now, so long as you aim for all of your outer lines to converge, I think that’s a solid goal.

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