Hello, I hope you find my feedback useful.
I think your lines are pretty solid, it seems that you understand how to create confident lines well, there's no wobbling and it looks like they are planned out.
Your ellipses are also good, you draw through them twice, they don't overlap with other ellipses, or go out of bounds.
Your boxes are okay, but I think they can be a bit better. Something that'll hep make your boxes look more solid would be to add lineweight to the outer lines of them. Another problem I notice is that the rotated boxes aren't actually rotating, they are mostly following a single vanishing point and slowly converging to it. When rotating the boxes that are further out from the center. The vanishing point should change to show the rotation of the box https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg.
Overall, I think you understand the lesson pretty well. I don't think it would be very useful to redo the rotating boxes exercise since you'll be doing the 250 box challenge next and you'll gain plenty of experience with a variety of vanishing points and perspectives.
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250 boxes
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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