Hello everyone! :)

It's my first post here and I'd really appreciate it if anyone could critique my exercises for lesson 1.

I also have some questions for the Rotated Boxes exercise, which was a living nightmare...! I wrote down my questions on the drawing paper as well, but it'll be easier for you to read them in this text form. :P

To start off, I know Mr. Uncomfortable said we shouldn't grind on the exercises... but gosh... I was forced to try the specific exercise twice, in order to use different pen colors (all of them 0,5), in case it will be easier for my eyes (and mind), so that I could understand what I was doing... But in the end, I didn't!

My question is: how in the world do we calculate the perspective in the boxes that are on an angle to the center? What I realized about those boxes was that all their lines that were on an "angle" (not the horizontal and vertical lines, but the ones that linked the horizontal and vertical ones) were in alignment with the dot in the center (the vanishing point) and that their "horizon" (on which their vanishing point could be placed) was not the horizontal or vertical axis, but an (invisible) diagonical axis.

Isn't that correct?

When we were doing the boxes that were on the vertical axis, we would always keep their horizontal lines intact.

When we were doing the boxes that were on the horizontal axis, we would always keep their vertical lines intact.

Likewise, the boxes on the diagonical axis, should always have their angles (not the horizontal or vertical lines) intact - always connected to the diagonical axis. Of course, we DID have to move those angles as the vanishing point (on the diagonical axis) was moving (in order for us to rotate those boxes), but they still remained in the same axis (so, perhaps I shouldn't call them "intact").

But how do we calculate their horizontal and vertical lines? (which of course will be neither horizontal nor vertical) At what horizon or vanishing point are we supposed to put them? I was completely lost and I tried the exercise twice to no avail. I know we were supposed to use the neighboring boxes/lines as a guide, but I still couldn't get it. Where should the lines of those boxes at an angle head towards?

My second question is about what Mr. Uncomfortable had said in the Rotated Boxes exercise link about the boxes not being cubes. More specifically he said: "In order for this exercise to work and for all of the boxes to stay nice and tightly packed together, we're actually going to be using boxes that are not perfectly rectilinear or cuboid. Meaning, the far end of our boxes are going to be smaller than the closer end, so they taper in one dimension."

I tried visualizing the exercise with the boxes actually being cubes and I just couldn't get the difference. I do understand it in theory, but is there a way to actually demonstrate an example of how they'd look like if they were cubes? How could I go about trying to do that? (not for practice really, but just out of curiosity)

Thank you very much for your time.