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3:00 PM, Thursday September 21st 2023

Hello and thanks a lot for your helpful critique!

Yup, balancing out patience and overdoing it (for example when I ghost the same line for the 20th time my hand and mind start shooting errors at me) is quite the challenge, so far I do a couple ghosted lines (like 10 at max but I try not to count it) and either commit to the stroke or give the hand a 1-3 second rest where I relax all the muscles of my arm and repeat the process. I'll also start doing hand/arm warm-ups before each session and see how that goes, and if that won't work out, I'll try drawing after working out.

Regarding speed, I'm experimenting with that a lot, both when ghosting and striking the lines. Just as you say though, higher speed has a better chance of being nice and straight in my current situation. Sometimes I do it too fast and the line looks just as slacked-off as the slow wobbly ones haha. It's gonna be fun to see how flexible one can get regarding confident lines no matter the speed, I didn't actually know this so thank you for the "future insight"!

I do tend to have lines/ellipses shorter/smaller than the destination rather than overshooting it, huh. I'll try countering it with overshooting it then and hope the same logic as with lines that curve in only one direction works here.

Regarding Organic Perspective, I can see that now, thank you. I was very focused on getting the hang of this one type of box instead of adding more variety, so I'll work on that during the 250 boxes challenge along with the warm-up drawing exercises.

1:06 AM, Monday September 25th 2023
edited at 6:26 PM, Sep 25th 2023

You are welcome!

I notice it has been a few days since and you are still stuck waiting on two "agrees" I recommend asking someone on the discord channel to take a look. To see if they'll give it the last go-ahead you need for it to be marked as complete.

I recommend posting the daily boxes you manage to complete in there as well. It will help keep you accountable and people can head off any wrong paths you may not realize you are going down.

edited at 6:26 PM, Sep 25th 2023
10:54 AM, Saturday October 14th 2023

It seems I got the badge and notification, so thank you to whoever gave the second agree!

As for the boxes, I'm on box 78 now and I was going to post them here, so you're recommending it's better to post on Discord and more regularly then?

1:01 AM, Sunday October 15th 2023

so you're recommending it's better to post on Discord and more regularly then?

Yes.

Sorry I took so long to respond. The website signed me out and I didn't notice.

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