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7:50 AM, Tuesday September 29th 2020

Hello again

I'm preparing the 250 boxes challenge. I've noticed that you too were preparing for it.

By looking up to the work of another student, wifu4lifu, I noticed that he just like you, https://imgur.com/gallery/HlDdtu6 were drawing red line along the boxes.

What are those lines for? Perspective lines?

Could you please help me to check if I understood the instruction of the

exercice correctly?

1- Draw a boxes with all faces using the ghosting method. (No ruler allowed?)

2- The box can be in 1 point, 2 points or even 3 points perspective.

3- Each box has to have a number near for counting (Are we allowed to write 250 box challenge page 1 on a corner of the box to help us get all pages together before submission.

4- Just like the rough perspective, use a pen of a different color to check if you're correct

I also have another question regarding the execution of the exercice.

The box or page is very likely to have a horizon line and VP outside the drawing page. Can we stick another page and draw the horizon line and the vanishing points for precise checking?

Indeed only the page in which a box is drawn is to be submitted.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

1:20 AM, Thursday October 8th 2020

Sorry for replying somewhat late, been away from the site a bit! Do feel free to give me an @ over Discord and I'll get back asap.

1- Yes. Ghosting and no ruler aid, except for checking the convergences once you've drawn the boxes. The challenge suggests using the Y method, where you draw the vertex nearest to the viewer and the three edges that represent each axis and point towards their respectives vanishing points. If you come up with a different method of drawing boxes, feel free to try it.

2- Yes, though ideally, you'll want to make them all with 3 points perspective.

3- While not required, it is a good thing to do, as it helps you track your boxes and a future reviewer to call out any details on specific boxes.

4- Yes, but only after you've drawn all boxes in a page. How many you draw per page is up to you, but 4 to 6 is ideal, as it should leave enough room to check all three convergences.

For that extra question, there's no need to add another page in case the convergence is off the paper. In fact, you don't need to extend the lines until they converge even within the paper, as in some cases they might get too long.

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