It's really about the ratio of height to width not absolute size. The further away end will be smaller in area/dimensions but the width will be greater in proportion to the height because you are looking at it more face on.
Does this help?
Sort of, perhaps it's because the farther end is overall smaller, or it's too subtle, but it doesn't look like I'm seeing more of the far face. I'm having a tough time visualizing it, and applying it to my current boxes. The visual aid on the challenge didn't really help as it's a top down view. Looking through my boxes so far, I do sometimes see a noticable width to height ratio occasionally, but the inner lines are scuffed, so I don't know if I can trust those as an aid to visualize it better.
Thank you for the response though!
It is relatively subtle depending on how deep the box is and where the vanishing point is.
It's a bit like a spinning disk. A spot on the outside edge is travelling more distance than a spot near the centre for the same angle of rotation.
In this case you can think of the near face being the outside dot. That face is turning away from you faster than the furthest face ( the inside dot ).
Not sure if this helps either but I thought of it so I thought I would say it. Perhaps try drawing a really big box with a lot of foreshortening then measure the edges and see if that helps. Good luck.
I think that kinda visual actually helps a little, and I will try that box idea.
Thank you very much.
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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