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9:25 AM, Friday August 6th 2021

So I had to take a much longer break from Drawabox than I anticipated (I had to move, among other things). On the bright side, I managed to get a much better roomier desk that really allows me to move my arm around a lot more. I did keep up with doing some exercises from Lesson 1 during this time, so my mark making hasn't completely deteriorated, but I'm very much open to re-doing Lesson 1 and the 250 Box Challenge.

These are the 30 boxes, started a few days ago and finished yesterday. I made sure not to make my line sets purposefully parallel, although a few turned out that way from mark making error.

https://imgur.com/a/LH0GkI8

I also checked out the video you linked. I believe your method of doing the interior lines after the initial Y-mark helped immensely, but I wanted to ask if it is acceptable to ghost the edges to the general area where the vanishing point of a line set would be when placing dots to align the interior lines (the areas I was ghosting to are visible on some of my pages since I accidentally skimmed the paper with my pen a few times). I was doing this to get a better idea of how to position my interior lines, but I'm not sure if this is something that is harmful for my improvement.

3:15 PM, Sunday August 8th 2021

This is a good improvement! I can see that your sets of lines are doing a better job of converging towards their shared vanishing points.

Keep in mind that when you are applying your extra line weight you should be applying it to the silhouette of your boxes for this exercise. Extra line weight should never be used to hide or correct mistakes.

To answer your question; you can ghost to the vanishing point if you want, so long as what you do doesn't put marks on the page while you are ghosting.

I will go ahead and mark this lesson as complete and you can now move onto lesson 2!

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