This sounds like the curse of a blessing. When you have a gift for one kind of drawing, it can be hard to shift into the other kind. You see shapes – that's valuable; some people don't notice shapes. You like to flow rather than plan; that too has its value. Learning perspective challenges those natural comforts. If you can take it on, and get some of the value of "the other side," great. If not, you're giving it a shot, and I hope it will do you good. Regarding "inside the box" or "boxing around the subject," I hope I've given you some concrete examples with the two arrow demos that followed this. The big lesson is that to navigate our "pretend 3D space," we need guidelines to point out directions. Carving in, or building out, or inventing around... those take a lot of work, but that work can't be done without something to carve into, build out from, or invent around. Therefore, the box!

Thanks for the heads up! I'll pass that along to the publishing team

Well of course it is more complicated, which is why you're working on navigating within those boxes for this project. And some of you are finding, as you work, that simple form is no easy task! This little clip was to hear it from the master: that without the box, one cannot think in or out of it.