Hey all! This took me a while to complete as it was something I kept coming back to, but I really started to feel the difference as it went on. It was way harder than I expected but I guess that's the point. Let me know what you think!
Hi overall good job and congrats finishing first lesson :)
Lines
Lines are looking p good overall.
Ellipses
Ellipses are looking p good too, though do get a bit wobbly sometimes. So don't forget to keep working on them ;)
Good job on funnels( minor axis cuts ellipses in halves).
Boxes
Boxes are fine too. In both organic perspective and rotated boxes your main issue is perspective, which is completely fine, as you'll work on it in 250 boxes challenge.
Overall good job :)
Next Steps:
Next Steps:
Continue to use these exercises as part of your warm ups (about 10-15 minutes)
Feel free to move onto the 250 box challenge
Don’t forget to take breaks and draw for fun!
Also, now that you’ve completed Lesson 1, I encourage you to critique some Lesson 1 community submissions. Not only will this help the community, but it will also solidify and reinforce your understanding of the material. Of course, this is optional (but we’d be especially grateful!). If you’d like to give it a shot, see this guide that was created by one of our community members on how to go about critiquing Lesson 1.I definitely need a lot of practice with perspective, yeah. And the confidence with ellipses I suppose really is just one of those things that's trained with repetition? Making my hand follow through precisely with the mark is tough.
Thanks for your feedback!
No worries bro, and don't really worry about ellipses right now, just try to make them
as smooth and confident as you can and they'll definitely get better.)
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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