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9:02 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

What I did for my latest warmup was a frame of rough perspective, with some ghosted planes off to the side-to prepare me for the rotated boxes I was working on for that exercise. I was only able to complete one frame in the 15 minutes with a few of the context-less ghosted planes on the side, so I'll be able to go back to that warmup sheet later and do it some more!

That said, my issue is that I know I will start forgetting certain exercises that are available for warmups so I actually went and made this https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R4msWQRk4g-fSlJ8Kn6N9QSarws7DAMm3ZKqTgkgTmA/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to make your own copy if you want to customize it! And definitely don't work past the 15 minute mark, you're supposed to do a maximum of 3 different warmup exercises, to get you in the headspace for the actual lesson you're wanting to learn (and not lose your skill in certain things)

9:18 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

The spreadsheet looks great, I copied it :)

I don't do more than 3 exercises per day, but I do a full page of each one, so it takes a while. Or maybe I'm just slow, which is probably something I should work on, haha

9:41 PM, Wednesday February 5th 2020

Good on doing less than 3, but if you spend more than 15 minutes on your warmups then they kinda stop being warmups. From the Lesson 0 section on grinding and warmups

we take all of the exercises we've learned thus far and incorporate them into a pool, from which we draw two or three exercises at the beginning of each session to do for 10-15 minutes. This does not mean doing them to completion, or to any particular page count - just to work on them for a set period of time before moving onto the main focus of that session.

Doing them to completion turns them from a helpful exercise to get your head in the game and give you a sort of review before working on new stuff, into something that becomes another task in and of itself-a grind. There's no shame in being slow, I thought I could do multiple frames of rough perspective the other day as a warmup and barely finished one.

I do encourage you to watch the new video on grinding and read the updated section on it since grinding and warmups are bundled together https://drawabox.com/lesson/0/4/grinding

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