What do I do while I'm pending on my critique for the lesson 1 homeworks?
should I start working on 250 boxes challenge?
could I have some suggestions?
I'd say it's fine to move on! And once you do get critique during or after the 250 boxes challenge, you probably gained experience from doing the challenge anyways. And if you were asked to do some revisions for lesson 1, it's going to be much easier as you would have already gained experience from the challenge.
I'd suggest if you really want to get critique, you could go check out the drawabox discord, although it's best to have someone else critique your work, you could go back and read the lesson again to check where you could have done better.
hope this helps! :D
alright thanks ! :D
Hello,
Yes if I were you, that's what I would do : working on the 250 boxes challenge. You'll need it for the exercices on lesson 3.
During the pending time feel free to post your boxes sample for feedback. You can also ask for feedback about the challenge itself as there are 2 main parts.
Good luck!
Great, I'll be working on the 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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