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2:35 AM, Friday August 28th 2020

Im hackin away at the 250 boxes too, and I definately had this same problem at first. What helped me was I tried to estimate how much time this is going to take me over all. Im finishing a page of 6 boxes in about 20-30 mins, so that puts me at about 21 hours for this. Its going to take a while and its gunna be a grind, and rushing isnt gunna make it that much shorter. Once I accepted that, I was able to slow things down and focus a little more, and once I did that I started to catch really minor mistakes I was making more often, which made the whole thing a little more fun. I also like to put on a little music or a background video while I draw, especially stuff like this. Ill pick out a long video or an album (roughly an hour) and mix this excersize with my free relaxing time. Thats not everyones favourite thing to do though.

10:55 AM, Friday August 28th 2020

Thanks for your input!

I had noticed when I was last doing my boxes that I was making more mistakes then I find myself doing normally, and I was starting to question whether or not I was actually taking the time to understand what I was doing right and wrong; I felt myself rushing a bit to try and get to 50 boxes (which is why I stopped at 45). I'll try listening to music and see if that helps, as well as find out how long it takes for me to do one page of boxes (which tends to be 5 per page for me). Hopefully then I'll feel less likely to try and speed through it, and I'll focus more on what I'm doing.

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