Hello James0, congratulations on completing Lesson 1. Here are my thoughts,
ghosted lines: sometimes an arc can be perceived, this reduces with practice but remember you can also consciously arc in the opposite direction to minimize this
table of ellipses: at times you ellipses will extend a bit past their bounds, but besides that they are drawn confidently and with multiple passes
Funnels: at times the ellipses won't be aligned to the minor axis
rough perspective: slight arc/wobble can be perceived in some lines, just remember to plan out your strokes and execute them with confidence, and don't try going over them to correct them, as you did once or twice.
organic perspective: at times the convergences will be off, this is something you will get a lot of practice in the 250 box challenge though, just keep it in mind.
Conclusion: Usually in my critiques I'll just highlight what I think the student could be doing better, which is why you might assume I'm being a bit dry. However I have a lot of good things to say about your submission. This is a very solid submission, your line confidence demonstrates you are ghosting your lines and executing your marks with confidence. I have no problem marking this submission as complete and wish you the best on the 250 box challenge.
Good luck moving forward
-Slyx
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Conclusion: Usually in my critiques I'll just highlight what I think the student could be doing better, which is why you might assume I'm being a bit dry. However I have a lot of good things to say about your submission. This is a very solid submission, your line confidence demonstrates you are ghosting your lines and executing your marks with confidence. I have no problem marking this submission as complete and wish you the best on the 250 box challenge.
Good luck moving forward
-Slyx
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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