8:10 PM, Monday September 13th 2021
Hello Uncomfortable,
Thank you for the very thoughtful and detailed feedback. I agree with all your points and will keep them in mind for future constructions.
Best,
Maria
Hello Uncomfortable,
Thank you for the very thoughtful and detailed feedback. I agree with all your points and will keep them in mind for future constructions.
Best,
Maria
Hello Tofu,
Thank you for the very detailed and thoughtful feedback, I appreciate it. I have made note of all of your points and I will try to work on my weak points as part of my warm-up, as suggested.
Thank you,
Maria
Ah, yes! Thank you :)
Awesome. Thank you for the feedback and diagram; I haven't been drilling this point consistently. I agree, the smaller boxes were not helpful- I thought it would provide some variety but I will skip them for future exercises.
How often should I continue practice drawing these per day?
Dear Rob,
Thank you for the informative feedback! I will work on my weak points as instructed.
If you are able to answer a question: one element that is constantly bugging me is how to position myself for optimal shoulder use. As shown in the tutorial, I draw at a 45 degree angle and reposition my paper with each stroke. I have a somewhat comfortable position now which requires drawing on a tilted surface...but I'm worried about bad posture. Do you have any posture guidelines for drawing?
Thank you!
Maria
Let's be real here for a second: fineliners can get pricey. It varies from brand to brand, store to store, and country to country, but good fineliners like the Staedtler Pigment Liner (my personal brand favourite) can cost an arm and a leg. I remember finding them being sold individually at a Michael's for $4-$5 each. That's highway robbery right there.
Now, we're not a big company ourselves or anything, but we have been in a position to periodically import large batches of pens that we've sourced ourselves - using the wholesale route to keep costs down, and then to split the savings between getting pens to you for cheaper, and setting some aside to one day produce our own.
These pens are each hand-tested (on a little card we include in the package) to avoid sending out any duds (another problem with pens sold in stores). We also checked out a handful of different options before settling on this supplier - mainly looking for pens that were as close to the Staedtler Pigment Liner. If I'm being honest, I think these might even perform a little better, at least for our use case in this course.
We've also tested their longevity. We've found that if we're reasonably gentle with them, we can get through all of Lesson 1, and halfway through the box challenge. We actually had ScyllaStew test them while recording realtime videos of her working through the lesson work, which you can check out here, along with a variety of reviews of other brands.
Now, I will say this - we're only really in a position to make this an attractive offer for those in the continental United States (where we can offer shipping for free). We do ship internationally, but between the shipping prices and shipping times, it's probably not the best offer you can find - though this may depend. We also straight up can't ship to the UK, thanks to some fairly new restrictions they've put into place relating to their Brexit transition. I know that's a bummer - I'm Canadian myself - but hopefully one day we can expand things more meaningfully to the rest of the world.
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