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8:49 PM, Saturday April 8th 2023
edited at 9:07 PM, Apr 8th 2023

I'm swapping in here for Tofu, as we believe there may be some miscommunication here. The issue we're specifically trying to get you to avoid is specifically drawing your boxes in a 2 point perspective orientation, which tends to happen when we don't adhere to a Y shape for our original Y. We can see this in your boxes in number 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10.

While you certainly can use the Y method in this manner, for this set we want you to start out with a Y in the manner shown in the video for this challenge so that you are forced to use 3 point perspective and consider how all three sets of edges are converging in a consistent manner.

If you are still unsure of what I'm asking, feel free to ask for clarification on specific points, but I would like you to try the 10 again, being sure to avoid the 2 point perspective and sticking to starting your use of the Y method with three edges arranged in a usual "Y" shape.

edited at 9:07 PM, Apr 8th 2023
9:33 PM, Saturday April 8th 2023

Sorry about my misconception, so the correct form of the exercise would be something similar to this?

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

https://imgur.com/a/FSOembX

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