When we're doing the 2-3 exercises for any particular warmup session, is it absolutely necessary to always do the exercises in ink with the recommend fineliners? Or is doing them with something like a pencil acceptable? I'm mostly asking so I know what I should and shouldn't use my fineliners for in order to get the most out of them. Thanks.
I would say it is advisable to use fineliners. Different drawing tools have different qualities and therefore are all used a bit differently. If you are warming up for drawing with fineliners in your homework or practice it makes sense to use the same paper and the same pen in those warm ups.
Yeah, I agree. Fineliners require a more thoughtful and prudent approach to drawing, which is one of the mentalities this course aims to reinforce. Not using them for course material would be detrimental to my overall progression. Fineliners are obviously a bit more pricey than some other drawing materials, so I don't want to use them unnecessarily / treat them inappropriately. Guess I'll just have to suck it up, lol. Thanks for the reply.
No problem. Shop around for fineliners. I don't know where you are ( I'm in the UK ) but I get these ones and they are very good and work out just over 1 pound each which is pretty reasonable. They last quite a long time too.
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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