250 Box Challenge

8:34 AM, Wednesday August 12th 2020

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It is done.

Despite some really rough mental health days, and the current 35+C weather, I managed to draw 250 vaguely box-shaped thingamajiggs in a month.

Took a while to get a feel for things, but looking through all 50 pages, I can definitely see refinement. The boxes are not perfect by any means - especially the 'invisible' ribs in the back of the boxes give me trouble still - but I'm fairly certain nearly everyone would think "My cat would love to own a box like this!" when they see my scribbles.

Except box 28, which clearly got manhandled badly by a disgruntled Amazon employee who's not being paid anywhere near enough for the nonsense they ask of them.

Apologies for the smudging here and there. I did my best to keep everything clean, but I clearly bought the wrong type of pens for the checks. Lessons were learned.

Anyway, I think I'm going to miss this exercise, ironically enough, as it was a nice way to zone out and listen to some music and podcasts (nearly) every day.

Thanks in advance for any and all feedback!

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