I do not have a working scanner so I had to use a scanner app on my phone to upload these, and some of the papers were warped slightly. I did my best to have them as flat as possible, but there is some minor distortion at the corners of some pages.
Hi there Hollence! I'm Eagle, and I'll be providing some feedback on your work today. (Forgive us for taking this long, there are LOADS of new submissions every day)
LINES:
Good work with your lines. I liked how you made another set of Ghosted planes to draw your ellipses on - always good to do more practice! I can see that you're using the ghosting method well, as your lines are confident and smooth, but I did notice the longer lines being a bit arched at times - nothing major, just something to keep in mind. A possible solution is to consciously arch the other way.
ELLIPSES:
Again, you've shown good adherence to the ghosting method, keep it up! Smooth, confident ellipses are always better than not-so-smooth accurate ones. Accuracy will come with practice, and I personally come back to these ellipse exercises regularly to use as warm ups. If you choose to do the same, work on aligning that minor axis.
BOXES:
Good effort here. Some lines started becoming a bit wobbly, especially in Rough perspective. Make sure to keep using the ghosting method confidently with your boxes too. There's a lot of room for improvement in terms of perspective, but that's what the 250 boxes challenge is for! Remember that any set of parallel lines moving away from you to some degree, and will NEVER diverge.
You're ready to move onto the 250 boxes challenge (if you haven't already done so haha). Hope that helped, and good luck!
Next Steps:
Next step: 250 Boxes Challenge
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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