Very nicce work! Your linework is extremely concise and clean, and you're demonstrating an excellent use of the ghosting method to achieve both control and confidence with your marks. Overall I am seeing an improvement in your estimation of your convergences in a number of areas, though there are some issues that jumped out at me as well:
There are a bunch of cases where you've got some of your line extensions extending in the wrong direction. For example, 247, 243, 226, etc. This will definitely hinder your progress as you need to be extending them back in space in order to properly assess whether or not your lines are converging properly, and how to improve upon them.
You do still have a number of cases where your lines converge more in pairs, rather than all four of a given set converging together. For example, if we look at 250, the lines off to the left are clearly going to meet at two separate points. When drawing these, you were focusing more on them in pairs (thinking about the lines that shared a plane together), rather than thinking about all four lines at the same time. Thinking about all four - even those that haven't yet been drawn - and how they need to be oriented in order to converge at a single point will help you continue to progress more quickly.
Other than that, nice work.
Next Steps:
Move onto lesson 2, but be sure to continue practicing these kinds of freely rotated boxes as part of your warmups.
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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