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3:45 AM, Saturday September 17th 2022

Well I'm both surprised and glad I've gotten a review, apologies for not noticing sooner.

Would you say that the converging improved over time or that it had remained a relatively consistent fault throughout? I know early on I was too focused on making the VP far, which I then tried to pull back on, and kept having a debate throughout afterwards on whether they were being too shallow or too deep.

Nevertheless I'll try to keep that diagram and your explanation more in mind for the future, I'm definitely not perfect at it even after all of this.

The choice for digital is actually more for my sake to post here, I'd be willing to work with physical/traditional mediums but as I currently would not be comfortable enough to actually submit anything here; possibly later I'd get over this irrationality and redo the course as is recommended.

I'll admit to actually undoing some lines, however those wouldn't be visible, and I believe you may actually be seeing my (inaccurate) silhouette lines.

I'm not sure I really have the time set aside for doing practice boxes per day, but I'll consider it.

The 50% rule is something I have taken to heart, and I'd say is a contributor to the long time for completion of this challenge, alongside me just being slow. I have actually been setting minimum-time drawing sessions since before I started, however sometimes I'm simply sluggish (it was common for me to have only drawn around 2-3 boxes in a day, which would become even worse due to 50% rule free drawing and having started doing non-DaB studies after starting the challenge.

Thanks again, even if you don't get receive this.

7:58 AM, Saturday September 17th 2022

thank you so much for replying and thanking me, it means a lot to me.

Of course converging improved over time. In the grand scheme of things, 250 boxes isn't actually that much, so nobody is perfect at it after the challenge. The important thing is that you understand the concept, accuracy comes automatically with practice. And don't worry about beeing slow: everyone goes at their own timeline, depending on their mood and other obligations life throws our way, so as long as you draw daily I think your way faster than other who do sprints of a week of extreme productivity and then burn out and have to restart. When I did the challenge I also only did a page (3-4 boxes) per day, so don't worry about the pace, even if it can be frustrating.

Maybe include a box in your warmup, or every second warmup or so. I kinda neglected that and got really out of practice and then struggled when I had to draw them again for the cylinder challenge lol

regarding digital: do whatever you feel comfortable in. It's better to do the course digital than not at all, so don't feel pressured!

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