So, here we go again! After a long hiatus, I decided to start all over again the course. Here goes the complete lesson 1. Rotated boxes looks a bit messy, so I totally understand if it's not that visible. Any feedback it's appreciated!
Your superimposed lines seem to be fraying a fair amount. They'll get better with time as you continue to draw, but keep them in mind. Your ghosted lines are better I'd say. If you feel like you're going to overshoot, start lifting the pencil/pen off the paper. Your ghosted planes are similar, but they seem to deviate more often. Focus on the end goal, ghost more, and move your hand swiftly. I can't see any issues with your table of ellipses, but I didn't do that well on that one. Your ellipses in planes look good, you seem to grasp the concept. Your funnels need more variation, most of the ellipses are very thin. Plotted perspective looks fine. For rough perspective, work on your ghosting and visualization. Your exterior rotated boxes do not rotate enough. Pay attention to how the perspecive should shift. As it moves, it should face less and less away from the veiwer. Your organic perspective looks good but try and draw more boxes next time. Put more on the page.
Overall I'd say you did well. Keep practicing for your warmup and you'll keep improving.
Next Steps:
Move on to the 250 box challenge, and if you want redo the funnels.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll check what you mentioned during my 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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