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250 Box Challenge

10:05 AM, Friday February 10th 2023

250 boxes challenge complete. - Album on Imgur

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Hello, I just completed the 250 boxes challenge.

Tools i used:

-pilot pens, ballpoint pens,

-markers

-ruler to analyze mistakes

Things i wanna say about my work:

It was very hard to get the inner lines of boxes correct, it was frustrating, i kept missing it. I tried adding more line weight on silhouettes, shadows of my boxes. My lines may look like it was made by pencil but i assure you it isn't. It is a very cheap ink i bought form store. It took more than a month to complete this challenge.

This challenge was very hard. It took more time than i expected. I realized that you shouldn't grind. I got really tired really fast of it. Then I stopped doing it or you could say burn out. I came back it after a week then continued again. Went from 25 boxes to six boxes a day XD. I hope i didn't said to much because the getting longer and longer XD. Please feel free to comment or critique. Now i have to wait for feedback T_T. Thank you.

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10:22 AM, Friday February 10th 2023

Nice!

I don't really understand what you tried to achieve with this line weight thing tho.

Anyway, your boxes weren't that bad from the start, but we can still see improvement overall.

I would call it done sir, good luck with the following lessons!

Next Steps:

Well done, now let continue this journey with lesson 2

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12:47 PM, Friday February 10th 2023

Woah that was hella quick. Last time it took wayy more time at lesson 1. Thanks for the feedback.

12:56 PM, Friday February 10th 2023

Is there anything i should work in?

1:21 AM, Thursday February 23rd 2023

While it's always appreciated that students are interested in critiquing one another and helping out, it is important to understand that if we do not feel we have the time to offer to give a thorough critique of one's work with clear assessment of individual exercises, it is definitely better to just leave the submission alone. Reason being, when a submission receives feedback, it's taken out of the main queue and becomes less likely to receive feedback from someone else who may have more time to offer.

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