First it's probably best to read the Patreon info.

https://www.patreon.com/uncomfortable/membership

It all ties up through that. You link your Patreon account to your drawabox one.

You upload you critique in the usual way but if you have credits you will see a button to allow you to select official critique. After a while one of the experts review your work and give you good, critical feedback.

I have done Lesson 1 and 250 boxed so far.

It is a bit convoluted and there are rules about how often you can get critique. best things would be to signup to Patreon at a level that gives you a credit or two. And try it. Easier to try than to explain.

Others have more or less laid everything out, but just in case there are any gaps, I'll answer the question in full.

Those submitting for official critiques do so by spending "credits", which they receive through being pledged on Patreon. Credits will be associated with your patreon account ID, and once you connect that to your account (under your drawabox account settings) you'll have those credits available to spend. Some lessons (mostly the first few) cost 1 credit, others cost 2 credits. If you're asked to redo some exercises, that doesn't cost any additional credits, except for some rare exceptions that you likely don't need to worry about.

Different tiers receive different numbers of credits per month. The lowest tier eligible for credits is $5, but pledging at a higher tier right from the beginning will get you up to one or two bonus credits, on top of what that tier usually gets every month. So the $10 tier normally gets 2 credits per month, but pledging there from the start will get you 3 credits total. Each tier can also hold onto a different number of credits at a given time, meaning that if you're not using them, you won't be able to just keep accumulating them indefinitely. Credits also expire after 2 months. Generally there's enough room to hold onto 2 months worth of credits.

This is essentially how Drawabox is able to maintain really low prices for feedback. The people who let their credits expire ultimately help subsidize the overall cost for everyone else.

When submitting your work for official critique, you'll pull up the same submission form, but you'll toggle the "Submit for Official Critique" option. This will display a number of requirements that will have to be met:

• The submission must include all assigned work for the lesson. Partial work is not accepted.

• The submission must be completed using the recommended tools - generally that means fineliners on paper, but there are some exceptions in different lessons that will be listed along with their homework assignments.

• Any prerequisites must be completed - meaning, you must have Lesson 1 completed before submitting the 250 box challenge (although really, you should be waiting for your feedback on Lesson 1 before starting on the next step).

• You must wait at least 14 days since your last official submission before being able to submit the next lesson/challenge.

If you've already submitted for community critique, you'll still need to submit again when doing so for official critique.

Hi,

To get an official critique you have to spend credit(s) at the moment you submit your work, there is an option for that. Depending on the lesson you are submitting your work for it may require more than 1 credit. If I remember correctly it's 1 credit for lesson 1, lesson 2, box challenge, cylinder challenge or wheel challenge and 2 credits for every other lessons.

When asking for an official critique no one can critique your work until a member from the Drawabox team answers you. It is generally faster than community critique (I submitted for the 250 boxes challenge, it takes approximatively 4 days at the moment) and official critiques are really useful.

There is a maximum amount of credits you can have simultaneously on your account depending on the amount you pay monthly.