Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
9:32 PM, Saturday February 27th 2021
After around 30 minutes a day I have finished!
Don't squish multiple exercises on 1 page.
Lines
Quite a few of your lines are a little wobbly. Remember that confidence > accuracy for now. It's important to start drawing lines straight even if you can't make them as accurate. You will get accuracy with time. See https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/9/wobbling for more on that.
Funnels
Your circles in funnels should change their width and also be symmetrical to the axis you have drawn. Reread this: https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/funnels
Rotated boxes
You have to rotate your diagonal boxes a little more. See https://d15v304a6xpq4b.cloudfront.net/lesson_images/d73eea49.jpg
Boxes on organic perspective are rather off but don't worry, you will learn more about that in the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Add these exercises in your warmups. Don't forget that for lines confidence >> accuracy and also read https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/funnels more carefully. And good luck on your journey!
Ah a quick note about the squished sizes. I was using A3 paper at the time, so I halved the page to get two A4 sizes
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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