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7:28 AM, Saturday May 23rd 2020

I'm only at box 30, but from what I understand it's about grasping the relationship between parallel lines. It's not specifically about finding the vanishing point, but instead to read the parallel lines and then have an intuition about where that vp wil be. Then it's balancing that relationship so that all three pairs of parallel lines respect the different vps of the box.

The closest I get to graphing a vp is to ghost in a line that converges with its parallel twin, then dropping a dot at the approximate point where I think the perpendicular line would meet it. I suspect anything giving more guidance than eyeballing it like this will defeat the purpose of the exercise. Afterwards, I look at the plotted lines and spot where I got stuff wrong, then use that knowledge to second-guess my choices when I do the next page.

I don't know if that helps your question, but thanks for the topic! I do sometimes wonder if I'm doing this right.

3:42 PM, Sunday May 24th 2020

Thanks for the input. I've heard Uncomfortable say that it's okay to use a guide, so long as you'd always have it. So you can use a pen to aim toward an imaginary VP if that helps. I think the key though is like you've said, not to focus on the definite VP like that's the point. I do think the point is to develp intuitive understanding of how the boxes should look.

Also someone else shared this video. I think it’s really helpful way of looking at it. After using her mothed I an see improvements on my boxes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mteUPdCHn4s&t=14s

11:59 AM, Wednesday May 27th 2020

Cool, that's pretty much what I've been doing, except I draw in the parallels of the different sides before dropping in the rest of my points, as per the method used for the organic boxes exercise.

But she's on the money - it's about visualising where the line might be. I don't use a physcial guide because the intention is not to draw a box correctly but to understand what it is that makes a box work correctly. So there's no point using a guide if all it does is give you a nice result.I find it much more useful to look at my boxes afterwards, check what I did wrong, and try to fix that mistake on the next set of boxes. To me, a guide would totally defeat that approach.

Simply put: I'd rather get it wrong without a guide than get it right with a guide, because in the former approach I learn more and faster. Good luck!

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