This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
2 users agree
8:08 AM, Thursday October 19th 2023
Hello! Like I said on the discord I think you're ready for lesson 4! Just remember the thingy about cylinders and branches I told you.
So I'm adding another comment so you can get it marked as complete. Good luck!
Next Steps:
Lesson 4
0 users agree
2:49 AM, Saturday August 26th 2023
Half of the plant drawings were supposed to be your own, not following the step-by-step tutorials. You only drew 2 out of 8 on your own.
Those 2 plants your drew on your own are also pretty low in complexity, especially the carton plant. Your homework is for your own benefit. How difficult you make it is largely up to you, but I'd encourage you to increase the difficulty to get more out of this. Let's be honest, drawing that carton plant didn't teach you much of anything and the summer crops aren't much better. Maybe get some inspiration by looking at what other people are doing for their lesson 3 homework.
It's up to you, but I expect at least 2 more custom plant drawings to consider this homework complete.
Next Steps:
Draw at least 2 more plants on your own. I'd encourage you to do 4 more though.
4:01 AM, Thursday August 31st 2023
Sorry about that! I decided to do the 4 plant construction drawings on my own like you recommended here: https://imgur.com/a/NFanBWu
The recommendation below is an advertisement. Most of the links here are part of Amazon's affiliate program (unless otherwise stated), which helps support this website. It's also more than that - it's a hand-picked recommendation of something I've used myself. If you're interested, here is a full list.
Drawabox-Tested Fineliners (Pack of 10, $17.50 USD)
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.