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9:25 AM, Friday April 29th 2022

Hello again! Once again, you shouldn't repeat them. I can see if you understand the concepts or not if you show me what you do in your first attempt. If you repeat them until you get a good box you're just hiding your misunderstandings from me.

I don't expect to see a good looking box or a good boxes, just whatever you can do doing your best in one attempt. So please, give me once again the same homework but this time without repeating anything. If anything goes wrong, just keep going, don't redo the box.

So once again I want you to so 2 pages and only 2 pages. Whenever you start a page, don't start over, keep going and finish.

Next Steps:

2 pages of boxes as requested without redos

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
9:19 PM, Friday April 29th 2022
edited at 9:20 PM, Apr 29th 2022

Here it is and you can see not even completed due to again seeing mistakes pop up. The only box that's remotly close was the eigth and final box (Which is quiet a drop from 17 attempts) but I'm not happy. Now I feel I will have to do this again and suffer; It's like I'm doing the 250 boxes all over again at this rate: https://imgur.com/a/uEuNRue

I guess another 2 pages or more of the same thing regardless of how boxes turn up I'm guessing is the next thign I'll be assigned with . I'm just tired, frustrated, and just wanting to finish this challange; it's gone on way too long. Sorry for whinning and moaning, but once again like when doing the original 250 I'm at my wits end with how many more times will I need to do this until it's deemed I understand this and can move on. At least you are being patient with me which I know isn't easy. I hope this doesn't make you want to quit or give up on me. I'm certainly not trying to make anyone do so.

edited at 9:20 PM, Apr 29th 2022
5:26 PM, Sunday May 1st 2022

Yup, like you said I want you to do 2 pages without redoing them. It's very important that you learn to do things at the first go. Whenever your boxes come out wrong, and you realize you made a mistake, just keep going. Don't leave a box unfinished.

Learning how to deal with a mistake and to keep going with it is a big part of drawabox as well, ignoring that and just redoing the box or throwing the page away is taking that big part of drawabox apart.

Good luck and keep it up!

Next Steps:

2 of boxes with 5-6 boxes per page as I required earlier, finishing each box and not redoing anything at all.

When finished, reply to this critique with your revisions.
1:38 AM, Monday May 2nd 2022

After over 2 hours I have it. Again I see the improvments despite 1 box being wonky and a couple extreme examples angle wise. Because this time really thinking things through got me to get all the lines to connect. That is more the victory and while some slight mistakes were noticed, this time I am much more pleased.

The two things I will point out I noticed during this; first the inking lines. I don't know if it was me or the pen. I tried switching pens out but I feel at times my lines faded and weren't as sharp. I think it might be on me this time, not sure how that's going to affect the reviewing. But if you see lines thicker than others, that's probably why. The other thing is more after thinking things over I feel it's a bit different. Altough you've been very helpful in taking the time to help me, I feel all the improvment has been more on me and has increased sub-consciously. Sure the directions of what to do next has been provided. But through doing this over and over, the learning has come through that and not just being taught. That's just what I think on that, might be wrong.

Once more recover well and thanks for helping even now:

https://imgur.com/a/amt7F7y

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3:58 AM, Sunday May 1st 2022

First I heard that you have covid. Here's to a swift and healthy recovery. Until you are well, take whatever time is needed to get better. I know what it's like having gotten the flu and better to be in full health then half well and trying to critique or do art and do it as an anime character would say, "Half-assed."

Now onto my submission. This I feel is what my last attempt shoudl have been. What a night and day difference it is when I'm more calm and clear headed. On top of that the fact that even though the mistakes are clear, this time they are very few (And yes some silly ones but not red flags to me), plus the fact it didn't take much before you can see boxes where all sides join right, I say is a huge improvement from when I first started this.

I think though with the mistakes I saw this time, some angles are goign to be a bit tougher than others and all I need is just a bit more practice with those. Also you may notice inconsitances with the ink; I think my pen is running out (But I have others when that happens). You can look at both submissions, but I feel this is the more accurate representation of what you asked for and a much more clearier picture with showing if I understaand this. And I am much more pleased with myself when it comes to this.

I will leave this here and will wait for your reply as you get better. While waiting, I'm going to focus on other DB areas: https://imgur.com/a/p4Rzd8z

5:28 PM, Sunday May 1st 2022

No probs, thanks for the words.

Like I said on the previous comment I want you to do another 2 pages without redoing anything. It's super important that you show me what you actually do on the first attempt and not on several redos so I can teach you properly.

Good luck!

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