250 Box Challenge
6:33 AM, Friday March 13th 2020
Spent about four weeks drawing boxes...
Really a tough assignment to be honest...
Please give me some critiques on these boxes, many thanks!
Fabulous. Haven't seen such clear straight lines yet. Nicely done. Can I know what size pen you had used(was it 0.5?).
Next Steps:
On WTF, you could make it non-WTF by making the hiding at the back thicker.
There is a very curvy line in the box number 200.
You gotta go ahead for lessons.
Would like to get my work reviewed by you.
Thanks for your review!
I thought I would never get a reply after several weeks of waiting???? LOL.
I was using Sharpie Ultrafine before box 160 (roughly) and Sakura Micron (size-08, 0.5mm) after box number 160. Compared to Sharpie, I think Sakura is easier to control and the mark it makes is has more variation in line weight (if you tilt the pen a little bit while drawing). Honestly Sakura feels much better than Sharpie (my personal view????).
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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