250 Box Challenge
3:21 PM, Friday June 26th 2020
phew This took quite a bit longer than I wanted to ^^;
And sorry if the colours are distracting, I couldn't make sense of it all with only one
Plaese give me tips on how to do better
Nice job finishing the challenge!
Overall you show nice growth over the course of your boxes, your convergences clean up and you get more confident.
One thing that would go a long way to helping you improve is your super-imposed lines, you tend to loose confidence and wobble with them, if you keep practicing making super-imposed lines in your warmups I'm sure you'll improve.
You could also probably move onto the advanced box exercises at this point.
Next Steps:
Go ahead and move on to lesson2 :)
Thank you very much for the input/
I'll do my best with the superimposed lines warm-ups to fix them shaky lines.
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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