I use rotating the page as the way to estimate angles:
Rotate the page
Do a couple ghosting motions
If angle feels off then rotate the page again
repeat this once or twice to get the angle almost perfect
ghost once or twice
execute line
Making a complete box becomes just a matter of rotating the page in the right directions. I look at the part of the box that's drawn so far to tell how much to rotate the page.
Yeah, I always rotate the page and ghost the line a few times, but it is never enough to know if an angle will come alright or not. It is almost always off by a few degrees.
Still, boss said it's not that big of a deal, so I can rely on it as I continue my journey!
A few degrees off is not all that much. We are only human. :-)
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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