Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
1:33 PM, Saturday February 1st 2020
I've technically done this already, but like others just uploadin for completeness.
It's mostly looking pretty decent, but I did notice a few things:
In your super imposed lines, you've got some wobbling. This isn't uncommon in the curving/wavy lines but for your straight ones you definitely need to focus more on maintaining a consistent trajectory.
Definitely just a touch of hesitation with your ghosted lines - you're still thinking about avoiding mistakes when you execute the line itself, so the line comes out a little stiff/wobbly instead of smooth and confident.
Line quality definitely drops in your rough perspective boxes. Looking at the earlier exercises, you can definitely do better than this, but you didn't spend as much time with each individual line.
Your box challenge also has a bit of this mistake. And don't forget to draw your frames!
There definitely appears to be more guesswork in your rotated boxes than there should be. When you've got two neighbouring edges, you keep them tightly together so you can keep them parallel and skip having to guess how each one behaves.
Since this is an older post, I hope you've continued doing these as warmups, specifically your linework exercises.
Next Steps:
Continue onto the box challenge.
I'll say this as a more general note for the 3 reviews, but thanks for reviewing the submissions I made!
I'm not exactly sure if I've improved much over like the 5 months since I started DAB, but I sure hope I have a little!
I'll get the sausages done and reply to the other one in a day or two. Thanks again for your time!
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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