I have almost completed the exercises of Lesson 1 and, comparing the first exercises I did to my current warmups, I am in doubt if I should submit my first version of the exercises or if I should redo everything and submit an improved version which reflects my current level.
Thanks for your attention
I would review this video from Lesson 0, as well as the section below it on grinding. We take a very firm stance in this course that students should not be deciding whether or not they ought to redo their work themselves, and instead rely on third party feedback to make that decision for them.
I think it'd be best to submit what you already did, so you can at least receive some feedback and tips before you redo any exercises.
imho submissions of this type should reflect progress and directed drawing.
If you're okay with doing the homeworks over again, I think getting feedback on your current level of skill would be more helpful in your journey. Hope it helps!
Definitely don't redo everything before submitting. I would submit your first attempts, the whole point of these exercises is to see growth in your abilities. Worst case scenario, you will be asked to do a revision of any exercises that were done wrong. Your goal isnt to be perfect, you just need to give an honest attempt and follow the directions. Redoing everything will likely discourage you from moving forward in the course.
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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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