Hey! We meet again! Let’s look through these~

So, as expected from someone who’s already finished this entire challenge once, these start off fairly strong. There’s a couple of errors, but they’re fairly minor. For starters, you’ll occasionally extend a correction line in the wrong direction (ex: box 302, 303.) Remember that these need to head away from the viewer, and towards the vanishing point. Being a little more conscious of said vanishing point is important, too, so you don’t have the odd line that goes nowhere (ex: box 327.) On that subject, please extend the correction lines in one direction only. Or, to put it another way, start them at the lines starting point. Moving on, try to keep the degree of foreshortening consistent, rather than having one set of lines converge much more dramatically than another, or vice versa. Finally, try to lean a little more heavily towards shallow foreshortening, as per the instructions. A lot of these are a little on the dramatic side.

Outside of those issues, all that’s left to discuss is the back lines of the box, which give a lot of trouble to every student ever. Take a look at this diagram, and notice how we recommend looking at the angle the lines of a set intersect at over at the vanishing point. In doing so, we notice certain relationships between the angles, and the lines themselves. Taking the middle lines of the set, for instance, we can see that they have a very small angle between them, which becomes negligible by the time they reach the box. This helps us, as we can then think of these lines as parallel, which they are, essentially, and give ourselves a quick, correct answer. Similarly, looking at the outer lines is useful, as their degree of foreshortening is usually proportional to their angle, as well- these need to converge a little more dramatically, usually, to be able to hit that same vanishing point. As you’re moving forward with this course, spend some time thinking of, and trying to make use of these relationships, and I promise you that you’ll see great improvement in your boxes once more. For now, however, feel free to move on to lesson 2.