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4:05 AM, Saturday April 17th 2021
Hi Allonsbro,
So first the good news. A lot of your boxes look pretty good. None of them seem wildly crazy, the lines look pretty good and there seems to be some improvement as you go through the challenge. Now the bad news you have way too many perfectly parallel lines and even worse boxes where one or more sides is expanding instead of receding to a vanishing point. So some points of advice and some images to help you understand what you need to do to avoid this problem.
- Sight the placement of your corners from different angles when deciding where to place them. It's going to look different to you from different angles and you need to explore looking at it from different angles and comparing and using information
from different angles to get an accurate sense of where the lines that meet the corner are going to point. You can leave a few dots on the page in the process of figuring out where you want your corner to be. Uncomfortable even said that was fine.
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Try ghosting out the lines to a vanishing point before you draw them. This can also help you check to see if they are going to meet eachother reasonably well or not.
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Don't try to make all your line sets quite so close to parallel, its sort of cheating yourself on the practice, you really can't tell if you did a good job if the lines aren't going to converge until several feet off your page.
Now as to the linked images I mentioned here you go, this might help you understand something about how to place your corners so that your boxes always have sides that converge to VPs properly.
Next Steps:
Follow my advice and the notes in the images provided and draw another 50 boxes. Try to make sure that you don't have any sides with effectively parallel lines (that would converge more than 12 inches off the edge of the page), even more importantly, please try to make sure that none of the sides are expanding rather than converging. You don't have to do a perfect job by any means, but it is important to make the effort to try while pointed clearly in the right direction. Sorry for the extra work. I know how much of a pain it is to draw so many boxes, but it's worth it to understand the principals of the lesson properly.
1:09 AM, Tuesday May 25th 2021
2:01 AM, Tuesday November 23rd 2021
Wow, those look significantly better than mine now. Sorry I checked out from this site for so long. Hopefully you moved on to future lessons already.
Next Steps:
Move on to the next lesson
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