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3:36 PM, Sunday April 3rd 2022

Tofu will be along later to look at your revisions, but I felt I should remind you that one of the requirements for official critique is that students may not move onto the next lesson or challenge until they've had the previous one marked as complete. This was stated on the first page of Lesson 0 (although just yesterday I moved it over here to reduce clutter, while releasing a video that goes over the same information.

You will be expected to start your work on Lesson 2 when your box challenge is marked as complete, so that the work you submit for us to critique has had an opportunity to implement the feedback you've received here and back in Lesson 1, so we do not end up having to point out the same issues repeatedly.

1:23 PM, Monday April 4th 2022

Thanks Comfy, I was wondering how this would work as I started out without official critique to try Drawabox out for free to make sure that it was something I could stick with. After completing lesson two, I felt that it was time to start investing in official critique.

Was there another way I should have gone about this? I genuinely love your service and want to be the best student I can be for you all.

7:00 PM, Monday April 4th 2022

The page I linked you to from Lesson 0 (here, again) explains the rules associated with official critique. The short of it is that if you decide upon completing Lesson 2 to pursue official critique, ideally you'd start over from the beginning, with two basic exceptions that I don't openly list because I don't want to encourage people to try and get around those rules:

  • Your old Lesson 1 work can be submitted if for whatever reason it still represents your current skill level and understanding of the concepts.

  • You can submit your 250 box challenge work with 50 additional boxes done after your Lesson 1 work was marked as complete through official critique.

Nothing beyond that is permitted to be reused, so again - you will be doing your Lesson 2 work over.

1:52 PM, Tuesday April 5th 2022

Thank you for being patient with me. I missed "You effectively have until you're finished Lesson 1's homework to decide which track you'd like to take (without redoing anything)."

However this is fine as it's a long journey anyway so redoing a lesson doesn't seem that bad in the grand scheme of things.

Thanks again for everything

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