Question about Rough Perspective Homework

5:17 PM, Saturday May 9th 2020

I've read the full homework article and watched the video but I am still confused whether we are allowed to use a ruler to draw our squares. I understand that all of the perspective lines are meant to be free-hand but the initial squares all look too perfect to be free-hand and in the video Uncomfortable uses Photoshop to make the squares perfectly straight

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5:37 PM, Saturday May 9th 2020

All the squares have to be drawn freehand. And all the boxes lines

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8:28 PM, Saturday May 9th 2020

As I understand it should all be free hand. The only exercise you use a ruler on is the actual 2-point perspective exercise.

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9:14 PM, Saturday May 9th 2020

All the lines of the boxes have to be free-hand. This includes all of the vertical and horizontal lines.

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12:16 PM, Sunday May 10th 2020

From what I understand, the only squares you can draw with a ruler is for the Plotted Perspective exercise. In all the other homework assignments, you only use a ruler to prep the page with boundaries and guides. So if it's not the Plotted Perspective homework, you should freehand draw all your lines using the ghosting technique.

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