Hello there
Good job so far, I would advice you prioritize confidence over accuracy since your lines are wobbly in some of the earlier exercises, it seems to get better at the boxes.
i would suggest you jump right into the 250 box challenge . it will give you a good understanding of perspective and is also a good training for more confident lines.
Also before you start your drawing session i would suggest picking up 3 exercises ,you dont have to fill an entire page it is just a 15 min warm up.
Keep up the good work and good luck .
Overall really well done! Some lf your lines ars a bit wobbly, so make sure to relax your shoulder, elbow, and wrist before starting to draw. And perhaps even try to excecute your lines/pen strokes faster, as it seems like you may be hesitating at some points.
Next Steps:
Move onto the 250 box challenge, but also go back and practice Lesson 1 exercises
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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