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How many credits for each Lesson/challenge on official critique?

11:56 AM, Monday July 15th 2024

Hello.

I'm almost done with lesson 1 after almost 2 months, and I'm interested to sign up for an official critique of my work.

I re-watch and read lesson 0 page 3, to understand more about official critique and I realized that in late lessons, more credits will be needed to get official critique of my work

So my question is (from the title of the post)

How many credits does it cost for each lesson/challenge?

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2:17 PM, Monday July 15th 2024

Here is where you can submit your homework. If you click the slider to select official critique and then select the drop down above the slider it will tell you how many credits each review costs. I just checked myself and it seems like everything down to the 250 cylinder challenge is 1 credit. Everything after that is 2 credits.

https://drawabox.com/community/submit/homework/G3SI84C

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5:51 PM, Monday July 15th 2024

Lessons 1, 2, the box challenge, the cylinder challenge, and the wheel challenge are 1 credit each. Lessons 3-7 and the optional texture and treasure chest challenges are 2 credits each.

This is technically subject to change in the future (since we can't actually change tier prices, once contending with the ever-creeping of inflation becomes too difficult to ignore, we may adjust how many credits each tier provides, and how much each lesson costs, but right now we have no plans of doing so.

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Where the rest of my recommendations tend to be for specific products, this one is a little more general. It's about printer paper.

As discussed in Lesson 0, printer paper (A4 or 8.5"x11") is what we recommend. It's well suited to the kind of tools we're using, and the nature of the work we're doing (in terms of size). But a lot of students still feel driven to sketchbooks, either by a desire to feel more like an artist, or to be able to compile their work as they go through the course.

Neither is a good enough reason to use something that is going to more expensive, more complex in terms of finding the right kind for the tools we're using, more stress-inducing (in terms of not wanting to "ruin" a sketchbook - we make a lot of mistakes throughout the work in this course), and more likely to keep you from developing the habits we try to instill in our students (like rotating the page to find a comfortable angle of approach).

Whether you grab the ream of printer paper linked here, a different brand, or pick one up from a store near you - do yourself a favour and don't make things even more difficult for you. And if you want to compile your work, you can always keep it in a folder, and even have it bound into a book when you're done.

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