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6:12 AM, Monday June 7th 2021

Congratulations on making it through!

You would greatly benefit from drawing bigger boxes and from doing it slowly. BIgger because it allows to check easier for the correct perspective and also, any error in the direction of a line gets magnified the smaller the box is. Is harder to make long straight lines, true. But it is a good skill to develop.

And the slowly part , I am saying it because it feels like you are rushing it. All your lines overshoot their ends by a mile, and the shadowed side of the box has the lines also overshoot its side!

BTW, your papers seem destroyed. You seem to be using way to much strength/preassure into your lines. But maybe is only when you are checking with the ruler after drawing the box.

Newby here. So take my advice with a grain of salt.

10:57 PM, Monday June 7th 2021

One of the reasons why I chose to make the boxes small was so there would be enough room for the perspective lines. drawing through is the hardest part for me because I now have to deal with all three planes when trying to draw through which is even harder when your lines dont all lead to the same VP like they should. Other than that, they are kinda crumpled because the paper is old and was moved around constantly in the month or two I was chipping away at it. Thanks for responding.

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A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.

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