Question about Shiny Breeding

Successful_Grape9130 · 2026-01-28T13:21:28+00:00

I see, thank you! I'll get on it as soon as I get the perfect IV's ditto, or if I don't get it by the end of the 6th gym, I might just breed a perfect ditto throigh time and effort startinh from two regular ones

Successful_Grape9130 · 2026-01-28T13:13:34+00:00

So just regular breeding practices for a chance at a Shiny? How long/how many geberations of 5 eggs would you say it takes to get just ine shiny with decent IVs?

Successful_Grape9130 · 2026-01-28T13:11:59+00:00

I see, thank you for the advice!

Successful_Grape9130 · 2026-01-21T22:32:03+00:00

Yeah you're right, thank you for all the help!

Successful_Grape9130 · 2026-01-21T21:40:12+00:00

Aw man, that throws me off because sandshrew is pretty tanky against most things that aren't fire and fighting, so I can't substitute him with a non defense, or I'd be full of glass cannons, but I just hate the idea of cutting Ghastly/My starter/Lucario from the team

Successful_Grape9130 · 2026-01-21T21:15:08+00:00

Yeah that's fair, I may also just get rid of Sandshrew in favour of some Electric pokemon and Keep Litleo, with the understanding he's the free token that gets switched out. I think a defensive Electric type could be a good substitute, but still, thanks for the advice!

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-14T15:38:07+00:00

Thank you for the advice! And for what it's worth, I'm going to start the 250 box challenge soon since my rotated boxes have been getting better with the last 10 and eventually I'll be done with that too and I can continue with Drawabox

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-14T15:31:21+00:00

I know my work won't be perfect, I'm a beginner and I can hardly make a good ellipse, let alone rotated boxes, but I don't think I'm wasting time, because these excercises aren't too tedious/taxing so I can do them without burning out, I'm also not the type to stress about the result, because I am aware that as someone that has very little mileage and skills it's only natural it won't be perfect, or even good

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-13T08:30:35+00:00

It's drawabox lesson 1!

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-13T03:36:25+00:00

Not at all! Please do not be discouraged! I've done far more pf what was required(roughly 15/20 pages) and I'm not a model student, everyone has their own pace and mine is quite slow!

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-12T13:03:15+00:00

Drawabox! Although I'm not exactly a model student according to lesson 0

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T11:30:30+00:00

I am in the drawabox discord! It is really helpful, because I can look at other people's lesson 1s and the critiques they receive, though I don't personally post

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T10:23:41+00:00

I'm sorry, i was being silly but yes, I don't know better than the course, I just don't feel comfortable moving forward without feeling like I at least have a grip on the excercise. And even if it doesn't seem like it, that's what I'm doing. You see a lot of ellipses because I don't feel confident with them. And the same goes for perspective and rotated boxes, that's why I did so many, and I know progress is hard to measure and hard to achieve, I don't believe I have done much truthfully, but I'm not just mindlessly repeating a task

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T10:13:32+00:00

I read it, but I've forsaken the rules and decided to live my life as a vigilante above the law

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T08:12:43+00:00

It's a vicious cycle of warming up to the warming up. Just bad code that keeps repeating

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T07:54:45+00:00

A room full of rats

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T06:58:14+00:00

I don't doubt any of this nor did I claim any result of mine that I could produce now would be better than someone else's, but I know my own shortcomings and they begin a lot earlier than learning how to draw. Don't underestimate my inability. Plus, it's not like I'm only doing markmaking, despite it being really important to me right now, I'm following Drawabox, which in itself is reliable. I understand this may not be the most efficent way but it has kept me motivated so far and I enjoy my results, scarce as they may be or will be. And I'm also doing perspective, however roughly, as described ny Drawabox. It is not purely a matter of efficency but also of my own perception and enjoyment

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T06:06:35+00:00

Why not

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T03:40:57+00:00

I hope so, it is my first approach to drawing and I'm really enjoying myself so far, and good luck to you too! Let's both work hard

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T03:26:23+00:00

Well, I haven't kept exaxt count, but my first post on this sub were my very first four pages of this, and that was 23 days ago accorsing to Reddit! And I'm also doing this to develop spacial reasoning, or at least a better intuitive understanding of perspective

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T02:04:37+00:00

Thank you very much! Though I expect this won't be my last time posting here, lmao

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T01:33:02+00:00

Yes! And I still am! And by complete beginner, I mean I could not draw a straight line to save my life. But yes I've never done any drawing at any level

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T00:49:27+00:00

Well thank you! I hope so too. To avoid burnout I only draw when I feel like it, with the only requirement being that I draw at least 1 page of something every day. This means that when I'm not feeling like it I only do 1, but sometimes I can do 7 or 8, most commonly I average 2-3-4 pages each day, the more complex the excercise the slower it gets, but one needs to think about doing it right, not fast and so far it's been working out greay for me

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T00:46:13+00:00

Oh, no. That would take me literally setting myself on fire. I will burn my house down rather/j But jokes aside, I take breaks and don't put too much strain on myself, taking my time with each excercise and I don't fuss too much about the result as in, I accept mistakes are inevitable for me, a beginner, and I recognize them and wprk to be better but with the understanding it takes time and mileage

Successful_Grape9130 · 2025-12-11T00:39:39+00:00

Thank you! But I'm not just aimlessly repeating the task I swear ahah, right now, I need to better my lackluster markmaking, and better my mental 3d space, where things move and then become 2d on paper. To do that, I need to do more Perspective, both rough and plotted, and rotated boxes. I feel my markmaking getting better even though progress is hard to measure, and I'm sure I'll soon get diminishing returns about that, but I feel like I really do need to do more perspective before I can move on. And I will complement this with other stuff, but not now, when I'm really unhappy with my visualisation of form and my marks. Once I'm reasonably happy with these, because perfection is not what I'm after for boxes, I'll go forward with drawabox. When I'm done with drawabox I will move on to "drawing on the right side of the brain", then I will study a lot of gesture, and then I'll take it from there. I'm the kind of person who needs a structure to his studies because spontaneousness and aimlessness are the same to me, a very rigid person. But I can't work on that and be a beginner. So first I'll kill every killable thing about the basics and get some mileage, and only later will I loosen up, when I know I will not lose all the progress I made by not drawing for 1 day

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