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9:52 PM, Thursday October 8th 2020

How long it takes you is entirely dependent on how much time you need to draw each mark to the best of your current ability - using the ghosting method, doing the correct planning, assessing your line extensions after the fact, etc. 3 days (ie: a page of 5 cylinders in boxes per day) certainly sounds like a good pace, but this answer essentially applies to any task you perform, in that the pace is not dependent on what "sounds good", but rather what you need to do the best of which you are currently capable.

6:16 AM, Thursday October 15th 2020

Hey Uncomfortable,

Additional cylinders in boxes here: https://imgur.com/gallery/R2MEaD2

Took me a few extra days to really parse your feedback and get to a point where I felt comfortable applying it.

Thanks again!

6:20 PM, Thursday October 15th 2020

These are certainly better, although do keep in mind that as your cylinders get longer, you need to force yourself to think that much more about how your lines converge towards their shared vanishing points. For example if we look at #15, you'll see that you've got your green lines going off into two groups, rather than all converging in one. Same goes for the blue lines. This can happen more often if we purposely try to keep our lines parallel on the page rather than thinking about them as converging, even if to some far off point. Don't purposely try to sidestep the need for a vanishing point here - always remind yourself of how they're to converge together.

I'll go ahead and mark this challenge as complete.

Next Steps:

Move onto lesson 6.

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