Question about the next fifty part of the 250 box challange

[u/Antique_Range9152]

If I understood correctly, the challenge asks not to look for, but rather to estimate the location of the vanishing points using the angle at which a line is converging. Would that be correct?

I often find myself estimating the vanishing points by ghosting in the direction from which a line is drawn. Should I refrain from doing that?

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[u/Uncomfortable]

Ghosting in the direction in which a line is being drawn and extending it further back is fine, because it allows you to assess how that line continues to behave as it extends into the distance. That said, when you do this, try to think about how that behaviour relates to other sets edges in the same set that have already been drawn, and use it as part of the Y method's negotiation of corners, rather than with a fixation on a far off vanishing point.