It occurred to me recently when going through my warmup routine: should ALL the exercises from lesson 1 and 2 be used as warmups? Or are some of them meant to be left out? Stuff like rotated boxes and texture analysis take quite a lot of time, and I feel that doing them in short sessions don't do much for me. Is there any word from Uncomfortable on which specific exercises should we do?
There's a bit of overlap here and there, but you should still be utilizing all the exercises raised in previous lessons as warmups. You will indeed run into ones that will take far more time to complete, but no one's asking you to do a full page of rotated boxes as a warmup. Doing what you can in the time you have is perfectly adequate - if that means drawing a couple neighbouring boxes that rotate relative to one another, rather than the whole set, that's perfectly fine.
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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