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8:28 PM, Thursday August 12th 2021
Congratulations on finishing this challenge, it takes patience and tenacity to grind through 250 boxes!
In general, you have a good sense of convergence and you are decent in accuracy, and it feels there has been improvement in both by the end.
Unfortunately, you drew the boxes too small, and you did not give enough space to your mind to really take the full depth of the page in. Had you been a little more generous with the size, I feel you would have improved even more. As it was, slight deviations went mostly unnoticed in the form, only your line showing the error. A bigger box would have shown that error by the time you finished it.
Still, you did the work, and you didn't do it sloppily. You improved, and if you take my advice in mind, you will continue to improve.
Next Steps:
Continue practicing boxes in addition to other warmups, but please draw them much bigger!
Feel free to move to Lesson 2.
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Staedtler Pigment Liners
These are what I use when doing these exercises. They usually run somewhere in the middle of the price/quality range, and are often sold in sets of different line weights - remember that for the Drawabox lessons, we only really use the 0.5s, so try and find sets that sell only one size.
Alternatively, if at all possible, going to an art supply store and buying the pens in person is often better because they'll generally sell them individually and allow you to test them out before you buy (to weed out any duds).