I would drop using that tool. It is better to learn through your own efforts and that includes creating your own Ys. Better to think them up than copy (it's really not difficult, 4 dots in a Y shape). The tool may also limit what you do in terms of variation and understanding of box size and perspective.
You may feel the tool is helping you cause you have to think less, I think it may be hindering by taking away a significant cognitive step. IMO.
Cool, thank you. I will take your advice! So, it can be ANY Y?
Yes. But not having angles less than 90 degrees helps. Start simple and obvious until you get comfortable. Then bit by bit you can push the box parameters of size, foreshortening, angles etc.
From previous answers I have read it is OK to do some extreme foreshortening but it is best for the majority of boxes to have fairly distant vanishing points ie ones that aren't on the paper.
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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