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9:50 PM, Tuesday September 30th 2025

Drawabox isn't a course that you only benefit from if you complete the whole thing - it's entirely normal for students to cut out at various points and move onto other things, having felt satisfied with what they got out of it thus far. Some of them come back later to continue where they left off, and others don't. That said, every lesson does introduce a different way to look at the same overall spatial problem, with its own elements to emphasize, and each does play its role in working towards the larger goal that the course as a whole sets out.

You have quite a few options here even if you wish to continue chipping away at the remainder of the course's "required" components, and it does feel like there are a few you may not have considered:

  • You don't have to work on it every day. You can choose to work on it every other day, or once a week. Does that mean you'll work through it more slowly? Of course - but in return you'll be moving more meaningfully towards that which will contribute more directly to that which is important to you.

  • Similarly, while 10-15 minutes of warmups is what we recommend, the addition of texture is your own choosing. That's not something you have to do every day either. You could alternate what your drawabox sessions focus on (texture vs Lesson 7). Of course you also have the option of setting the texture challenge aside for now.

And if you decide to set your Drawabox work aside for now, you can always come back to it later.

7:14 PM, Wednesday October 1st 2025

Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

I agree with you on not having to work on everything every day, so I will try to reorganize my schedule to reflect that.

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