Good job on working your way through lesson 3 and I apologize for having to wait so long for feedback.
Arrows:
The arrows are drawn with mostly smooth and consistent curves. The tapering of the arrows shows a grasp on 3-d space. So good job with that! In some place, the extra line weight seems to be a bit heavy, that's not the main objective of the assignment but I think every little bit of feedback helps.
Leaves:
Nice work. The leaves generally flow with nice curves. All the twisting and bending they do seems appropriate and you got a good variety of positions for your leaves.
Branches:
The branches seem to have been drawn a bit too large, which is something I also did. There isn't a specified size but for me it didn't help my ability to draw the branches and ellipses small when the time came to draw the plants. Great work though, your ellipses are smooth, evenly round, and confident. The outlines of the branches are also nice and smooth. Nice work challenging yourself with attaching the branches.
Plants:
The first thing that stood out to me were your semi-contours since I do the same thing to mine. You draw the curves on the end but the middle is nearly a straight line, making the object look flat. Literally think of it as an ellipse, making sure it is round in the middle. Some of the leaves also seem to lack the flow that you had in your leaves exercise. Good job on your cylinders though, like your mushroom stalks and branches. With that being said, I still think your construction was solid enough and that you understand the concepts, you just amde some mistakes on the plants which will happen since we are using fine liners.
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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