Congratulations on finishing a long and difficult challenge!
Feathering at the corners: You are overshooting and drawing through the corners of your boxes. It helps to plot a point where you visualize the lines will come together and then aim for it. You might just need to work on accuracy in ending your lines, using exercises such as ghosted lines or ghosted planes for practice.
Line wobble: Again, it will help to have a small dot to aim for so you can ghost your lines and make a confident movement from your shoulder.
Twisted boxes: Some of your boxes are coming out with a twisted shape. Some examples: 245, 242, 238, 230, 216 (Thank you for labeling your boxes!) I believe this is due to an issue with your starting Y shapes - some of your starting Ys include acute (or very close to acute) angles. Review Uncomfortable's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJ6rwj3PKg starting at the 5:00 mark, he begins talking about the angles in the Y construction. When drawing the starting Ys, it helps to start each of the three lines from the one central point to ensure that the 3 starting lines of the Y come together in one point.
Inner corners: it is not a hard requirement of this challenge to have accuracy in the inner corner, but I think it would help your understanding of the 3D space to revisit some of your inner corners and think about where they should have been placed, and the planes of the boxes in relation to each other.
You explored 3D space and tried a variety of boxes, so well done!
Next Steps:
Use some ghosted lines and planes exercises as warm ups to work on your accuracy, and move on to lesson 2.
Thank you so much for your critique! All of your advice is super helpful to me!
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We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
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