9:33 PM, Saturday April 8th 2023
Sorry about my misconception, so the correct form of the exercise would be something similar to this?
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7:57 PM, Sunday April 9th 2023
Based on your link there, I think you're still very much misunderstanding what we're calling out. I've tried marking it out directly on your work. What I'm asking for you is to start out your boxes with a Y shape, and only a Y shape, for these revisions, to demonstrate that you understand what that means. As shown in the image I linked above, 9 and 10 do not start with a Y - the first 3 edges you started with create more of an arrow shape, whether pointing upwards or downwards.
8 is an example of doing what we're asking for - your initial 3 edges define a Y, which effectively forces you to draw this with three concrete vanishing points, one for each set of parallel edges. In 9 and 10 however, starting with that kind of arrow shape with your first 3 edges pushes you in the direction of forcing one of those vanishing points to infinity, because of how we could ostensibly extend the blue lines in either direction and still have them move away from the viewer (due to the horizon line being situated somewhere in the middle of the box, rather than above or below it, again due to not starting with a simple Y).
12:32 AM, Monday April 10th 2023
Finished the 10 boxes, I think I understand it better now
6:09 PM, Monday April 10th 2023
Much better. I'll have Tofu come by and mark this challenge as complete. Also, in regards to the "this is still a Y, right?" in the bottom left corner of the first page, yes - that's still a Y, even though it's rotated.
6:11 PM, Monday April 10th 2023
Marking this challenge as complete.
Next Steps:
Move onto Lesson 2.
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