Hello and thank you so much for the advice! I apologize for my late revisions, but I had missed the initial notification of your response (still learning the site). Here are both the revised plotted perspective page (was a bit difficult with all the lines everywhere haha) and the ellipses in planes (made sure to draw through each ellipse 3 times). https://imgur.com/a/sJaUQJ6
Perfect, exactly what was needed!
Note the increased confidence and accuracy in your ellipses (it kinda works the same way the Superimposed Lines+Ghosted Lines exercise does, ghosting and then superimposing your ellipses, eventually increasing the accuracy), and the fact that some of the back lines in the Plotted Perspective page go more diagonally than expected - this is completely normal within this exercise, it's something that really proves the point Uncomfortable makes - any small deviation from the vanishing points can make a big difference in how the box is constructed.
Wonderful job, remember to adhere to the 50% rule, do warm-ups before each session using the exercises in this lesson, and move on to the 250 box challenge!
Next Steps:
Lesson complete, move on to the 250 box challenge.
Good luck!
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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