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5:21 AM, Monday June 21st 2021

Thank you so much for your lovely feedback again I will surely focus on my weak spots by adding the exercises to my list of warmups as you told me to and now as you told me about the 50% rule. I feel stupid that I literally forgot about it. I am really sorry and I will make sure that this won't happen again I am actually doing the radio runners solo artist curriculum if you know about that. In it I was given a month's time to complete the Drawabox lesson 0 to 3, 250 cylinders and 250 box challenge I was running low on time so I rushed for it which was a mistake which I shouldn't have done but none the less I shouldn't Rant about it anymore. I also incorporated the ghosting Planes and ellipses exercise to my list of warmups as you told me to and I can see improvement in my ellipses so thanks for that. plus I don't drop for 6 hours daily I try to maintain 2 to 4 hours of drawing daily.

Thanks again.

2:25 PM, Monday June 21st 2021

Hey, it's alright now you know about that :)

I think I heard about this curriculum and it has been even discussed by Uncomfortable himself on the Discord. It has great resources and it has a great overall list of things that you should practice, however it is TERRIBLE for the time frames it gives you.

Art cannot be speedrunned, the brain needs time to absorb the contents we practice and we need time to develop the muscle memory, and when it comes to Drawabox on that curriculum it's just not possible to complete it that quickly without breaking some of the principles of DAB, like the 50? rule. Which is very important so that you don't burn out and you actually apply the things that you learned so you can actually tell that you learned something. Plus 250 cylinders is heavily recommended to be tackled only after completing Lesson 5.

Rushing through the course will actually get you worse results, and it's heavily discouraged by the creator and everyone who has completed the course. I heavily encourage you to, if you decide to follow the Radiorunner curriculum, to use it just as a loose guide of resources and what to practice, and completely disregard it's time frames.

And hey that's great! Continue practicing and good luck on the rest of your DAB and drawing journey :)

5:07 AM, Tuesday June 22nd 2021

Thank you so much, I will surely consider your advice also should I do the 250 cylinders exercise all over again after completing the 5th lesson. what do you think please let me know.

thanks you

1:28 PM, Tuesday June 22nd 2021

Did you already complete the challenge? If yes you don't need to do it again I believe, but remember to keep practicing boxes and cylinders in your warm ups.

If you have just a few pages complete or haven't started yet I would give it a pause and start where you left off after you finish Lesson 5.

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