Congratulations on making it through!
You would greatly benefit from drawing bigger boxes and from doing it slowly. BIgger because it allows to check easier for the correct perspective and also, any error in the direction of a line gets magnified the smaller the box is. Is harder to make long straight lines, true. But it is a good skill to develop.
And the slowly part , I am saying it because it feels like you are rushing it. All your lines overshoot their ends by a mile, and the shadowed side of the box has the lines also overshoot its side!
BTW, your papers seem destroyed. You seem to be using way to much strength/preassure into your lines. But maybe is only when you are checking with the ruler after drawing the box.
Newby here. So take my advice with a grain of salt.
One of the reasons why I chose to make the boxes small was so there would be enough room for the perspective lines. drawing through is the hardest part for me because I now have to deal with all three planes when trying to draw through which is even harder when your lines dont all lead to the same VP like they should. Other than that, they are kinda crumpled because the paper is old and was moved around constantly in the month or two I was chipping away at it. Thanks for responding.
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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