So I realised something long after I'd done the ghosted lines and planes, and the ellipses exercises: I had been watching the videos in 1.75 speed (as I always do with things) before reading the text lessons. But, I'd forgotten I was doing that and ended up thinking my line making had to be as quick as Uncomfortable's while he was... at 1.75 speed! I think that's part of the reason I had so much trouble getting things accurate, and also why it looks like my pen was running out of ink when it wasn't. After I'd realised this, I had been doing some ghosted lines and planed exercises at a slower, but still confident speed and did much better. Still awful. But better!

Another thing I noticed while doing the rotated boxes exercise. My mind slipped into a state of flow after the pattern recognition side kicked in and noticed that I could follow the edges of the other boxes. Flow is counterintuitively the enemy of deliberate practice and not a great thing for learning, so the corners of my sphere of rotated boxes obviously need a lot of work. I curved the box edges instead of rotating them, and a lot of the boxes are more deformed than rotated I think. I know this is normal at this stage of the course, but still I feel like I should do the exercise again but actually keep my mind focussed on what I'm doing to be more cognisant of where I'm going wrong, but then I thought maybe I should do the 250 box challenge before attempting it again. Or is it better if I just move on altogether for now?