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5:32 PM, Wednesday January 24th 2024

Solid submission and solid review but I want to add that your rotated boxes are missing the corner boxes. You should complete the exercise before moving on. Don't worry about ruining the paper, the point of the exercise is to learn not to look pretty.

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Complete the rotated box exercises by adding the missing 4 corner boxes

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5:42 AM, Saturday January 27th 2024

Thank you for your comment. I have added the 4 corner boxes. Here's the link to my rotated boxes exercise:

https://imgur.com/a/WE0SQs6

7:10 AM, Saturday January 27th 2024

Good job. Very good looking exercise.

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Move to 250 boxes

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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.

On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.

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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