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5:08 AM, Tuesday May 31st 2022

The entire point of this exercise (and ultimately DaB in general really) IS to improve your spacial reasoning. You're not expected to come into course with it already formed. It'd be like working out and building muscle in preparation for going to the gym. So don't worry that you can't get it perfectly.

Converging in pairs is a mistake I make a lot too. I think the problem is when planning out a line, you may accidentally focus too much on how it convergences with the other line on the same plane and not give the same amount of thought to the other lines it also converges with.

2:31 PM, Tuesday May 31st 2022

Thanks for responding. Hey, have you figured out a way to lessen the focus a bit? I had to sleep it off and my mind is a bit more renewed this morning (over here as of writing), though I am a bit worried I'll be making mistakes.

10:39 PM, Tuesday May 31st 2022

I think it comes down to conscious practice. When planning out your lines stop and pay very close attention to the angle of every single line drawn so far that converges to the same VP as it, and angle it so that it agrees as much as possible with all of them.

It'll take some tries, but as I said before don't try to strive for perfection, strive for good enough.

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