7:51 PM, Tuesday August 9th 2022
You're following each exercise as intended. Some of your mistakes seem to come from carelessness, but i can see you have the right idea. Just remember to have patience
You're following each exercise as intended. Some of your mistakes seem to come from carelessness, but i can see you have the right idea. Just remember to have patience
Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!
For future reference, when giving other students feedback, you may want to try using Elodin's unofficial critique guides. He's got some for:
The guides function something like checklists, giving you clear things to focus on and address to ensure that your feedback is thorough. Of course, either way the kind of feedback that is really helpful to students does take time - so if you don't have time to apply that kind of approach, then it may be best to leave it to others, simply because providing more limited feedback yourself will reduce the chances of the student getting feedback from others.
Thanks, i knew the guide existed but i was never able to find it before. I'll keep it in mind for the future!
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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