250 Box Challenge

4:29 PM, Monday August 22nd 2022

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Finally after over 2 months i have finished these infernal boxes.

Each page has 5 boxes, for a total of 50 pages.

I realise some of these images are a little blurry but hopefully you can see the lines okay. My camera is pretty bad, and getting the focus right is a chore. If you'd like an image of one of the few that ended up blurred, let me know and i will re-shoot it. Unfortunately, some of the pages are also bent due the way i stored them and i cannot take a picture and straighten it at the same time so i apologise for that too.

I did make a video version of this to avoid this but you can't see the lines very well, which is a shame as i explained the different methods i used.

I went through several different methods, eventually landing on my own method from page 28 onwards and i felt like i got some good results from that method. However, after doing a good few pages with that method i was informed that my method was "Cheating" (Even though it was just a lightly modified method that is in the pinned comments of the basic challenges channel of the discord) so i ended up going back to the scylla method for the last 15 pages or so as that one was considered an official method, or so i was told. I did not find much success with the Scylla method but i went ahead with it anyway and as a result, i feel like my boxes suffered in the last 10-15 pages or so to the point that some of them, personally i feel, got worse than even some of my earlier boxes which certainly did not help. I got several instances of divergance towards the last few pages and very rarely did i get very good convergance but again, apparently the method that i found useful, that i was using, was no good but i continued anyway.

If you could find the time to critique my boxes, i would be most appreciative.

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