Shape to vortex

[Albacore]

I am trying to draw your box shapes at the moment which I have done and made a pattern. Now trying to use the Warp tools I have done about 1 1/2 hrs and it's not good enough to show and I may need to change the perspective to resolve the problems. Do you have a CAD programme that you can the shape blocks in 2pt perspective and that when exported could bring it back into Illy? This is the way I am doing it and it is working better than your examples but using Illy's perspective grid is a pain and is slow to get the right perspective. What I am saying is that I should be doing my own work and can't spend anymore time on it, I am sorry to say.

[spankaroonie]

looks like there is some perspective distortion too - fisheye maybe....

I've tried it, but it's still not doing the trick. Combining some warp effects seem to give a few better results though..

I am trying to draw your box shapes at the moment which I have done and made a pattern. Now trying to use the Warp tools I have done about 1 1/2 hrs and it's not good enough to show and I may need to change the perspective to resolve the problems. Do you have a CAD programme that you can the shape blocks in 2pt perspective and that when exported could bring it back into Illy? This is the way I am doing it and it is working better than your examples but using Illy's perspective grid is a pain and is slow to get the right perspective. What I am saying is that I should be doing my own work and can't spend anymore time on it, I am sorry to say.

Unfortunately I do not own any CAD software, I could download a free one and teach myself how to use it.. but that would require too much time, which I don't have.
I have been getting some better results, but sadly also not good enough to show.
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into it! Thank you!
I'll keep trying different approaches, hoping to get good results, but I'm starting to feel that the best option is to draw it by hand. Just to get it exactly right.