I recommend resubmitting the lesson with pen and paper. 500 sheets of copypaper are normally around 2-5 dollars, and you don't have to use a fineliner. Ballpoint are a few cents only, and they do the job greatly. I'm saying this, because if you do it with ballpoint, you'll learn much more than if you do it in digital. Skills transfer, so by doing it digitally you're basically losing time and effort. Of course I won't force you, but I wanted to be sure you are aware that doing it traditionally will help you much more.
Lines get a bit wobbly at times. No matter how accurate a line is, it will always be worse than a confident line, no matter how off that is.
On boxes your lines seem to get worse in quality. Be sure you are not rushing. You should be giving your best on each line of these exercises, don't rush it. You seem not to be plotting lines in some of your boxes as well. Before drawing any line, you should first draw its ending and starting dots.
Lastly, you're repeating some lines, no matter how wrong they are, keep going as if they were correct.
Next Steps:
As I said before, I recommend you to redo this lesson in ballpoint. That's your choice however. Good luck on lesson 1 again if you follow my advice, and good luck in the box challenge too if that's your choice!
Thank you so much for your advice. I'm not crazy about the idea of redoing everything right now but I'll definitely come back to it in the future. Also, I did get impatient doing the homework so you were right about me rushing things. I'll take all you said with me and again, thank you for the feedback.
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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