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Trying to stay motivated with the 250 box challenge!

2:14 PM, Thursday April 29th 2021

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I'm finding the 250 box challenge really... challenging! Which is obviously the point, but I'd really like to be doing somehting else wiht my learning time by now! I tend to have an hour or two free each evening, but after doing a warmup, checking the last page's convergences, then carefully ghosting each line for a page of boxes, an hour is gone in no time, and sometimes I need longer!

I was watching FZD and he recommended keeping an art wall, so today I bought a cork board and pinned my recent box pages to it, hopefully it will inspire me to keep on going and remind me that I'm making progress, even if it is slow.

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These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.

Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).

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