After 3 months, I've FINALLY finished lesson 1.
This is the third time I've tried the drawabox program, but it's the first time I've taken it this slowly. I feel much more confident about continuing through to the end this time, even if it takes me years.
Hi,
I'm new here, so until I get used to critiquing, I'll write you what I should tell to myself.
Superimposed lines: Try to stay on the line till the end. There are some lines where you could hold it, so you can do it with more practice.
Ghosted line: some of your lines are wobbly, try to make them with more confidence. Your ghosted planes are much better.
Tables of ellipses: there are gaps an overlaps, but overall pretty tight and nice work.
Ellipses in planes and funnels: there are some which don't touch the sides of the planes or overshoots them. You might practice it a bit more, maybe as a warmup before drawing.
Plotted perspective is well done, for rough perspective you should connect the edges of the boxes.
The rest of the exercises are all well done, your organic boxes are way better than mine. :)
Keep up the good work, and don't mind going in your own pace.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge
Thanks! I had a lot of trouble with the organic perspective, glad it came out OK.
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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