also, I'm new to this, I'm not a patreon so will someone tell me what should I do next or do I have to understand it on my own?
I'm not an english native speaker so I don't know how I sounded, but I apologize if I came off as rude (the part where I ask "will someone tell me..." sounds pretentious to me, It's not my intention to be like that)
thanks! I appreciate you giving the criticism despite being fairly new to this, I will be using from now on 0.5 pens as recommended by the instructions, the most difficult things for me were (despite the ellipses, because that's just obvious considering the mess I did lol) drawing from the shoulder, and that's especially apparent with small lines. I had to fight against the tendency to draw using my elbow, locking my wrist and fingers was really easy, but the elbow basically drove me crazy.
I also noticed I wasn't rotating enough the boxes in the rotated boxes exercise, despite trying so hard to do so.
I think I did wrong the superimposed lines but I'm not sure, I was using the ghosting methods, but I read on other critiques that you need to carefully place the pen on the first dot before drawing the line, so I'm a bit confused.
I thought that everyone would receive TAs' critiques or even uncomfortable's critique for free lol (yeah uncomfortable, the man itself, the legend, that evil guy who steals the souls of his victims by making them draw boxes till they aren't capable of holding the pen anymore) , I recently learnt that you have to pay money to get that kind of critique lol (I know it was really stupid of me to think that, I mean he has to get paid for what he does lol, there was no way everything could be free), It's still amazing that I'm getting all the information of this site for free! I think DaB should be more popular, I found it thanks to a yt video but there's no way I could've found it on my own, and yeah I've only been through lesson one but I like this structured approach
thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it
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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