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2:32 PM, Saturday September 10th 2022

YEAHHHHHHH

Was rather doubtful about how I did, so I'm really happy you think I did good!! :D

Your critique is really well-done and helpful, thank you so much!

Would you recommend I try out the different order of drawing boxes pinned in the #basic-challenges channel over at Discord (The second pin from the top) in my warmups?

3:18 PM, Saturday September 10th 2022

You can certainly try that and see if it works!

If I have understood it correctly, the advice to change the order in which you draw your boxes is based on that you can't rely on your habits when drawing boxes. With this many boxes to draw it's probably easy to just make it an automatic habit of placing one line after another in a certain order. When you change it up, you can't rely on that, which makes you think more about what you are doing. That's what I assume at least. You may want to ask other people about it to get further information though as I have not tried this. I personally plot everything after my Y and the first plane before placing any other lines.

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