your lines are confident , they overshoot a little at times, but its a good start.
it's all good you'll get better at foreshortening with next challenge.Next Steps:
next up 250 box challenge
Hi Jwala! I'm also new here but I thought I'd comment on your rotated boxes because it looks like you struggled with that exercise. I think you did quite well on the boxes along the vertical and horizontal lines, but your outermost boxes on the diagonals (e.g. top left) look odd. If you look at the example on the homework page, you see that as the boxes move away from you the two axes furthest away on the box (from your "eye") are shorter than the closest axes and the angle between them becomes larger. They kind of look flatter than the two axes closest to you. You've drawn those two farthest axes so the outermost edge of a box has a diamond shape, and both the closest axes and the furthest axes have the same angle. I think if you corrected those axes that are further away, your rotated boxes would come out looking good (and the whole thing would look more like a circle than a square)! You can see more examples of some boxes showing that effect here.
I hope that explanation is helpful. Otherwise I think it looks really good that your superimposed lines clearly get better with each attempt. You could also try that exercise with curves.
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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