Hey! I’ll be looking though this~
Starting off, your lines look good, though I do notice a tendency to arc a little, so be mindful of that. Also, if you’re not (it’s a little hard to tell), be sure to plot start/end points for the non-diagonal center lines of the planes.
Nice job on your ellipses. A couple of things... Be careful to go around them 2 full times, (and no more than 3.) At the end of your rotations, don’t flick the pen off the page, as it causes you to run off-course- lift it off the page, instead. There’s an extra page of the funnels exercise, for some reason. Be a little more mindful of the page requirements, please. Also, try not to get too overwhelmed- the quality of your ellipses takes a slight dip here. Finally, remember that the minor axis is meant to cut an ellipse into 2 equal, symmetrical halves (so they should be standing upright, rather than tilting.)
The box section is a bit of a mixed bag. The technical aspects are good, but the line-work is a bit chicken-scratchy. Don’t redo lines, if you can help it. If a line is wrong, it’s wrong- adding more ink to that general are just makes it stand out more. If you need that line to be correct, use a red pen, instead. There’s 4 missing boxes in the rotated boxes exercise, and the foreshortening is a bit inconsistent in the organic perspective exercise, but solid attempt at both. I do wish you’d tried some more 3 point perspective boxes for that last one, though. There’ll be plenty of chances to in a second, though. xD
Congrats on finishing, and consider this lesson complete. GL on the challenge!
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250 Box Challenge
Thank you so much for your kind critiques : D. I do understand that my line is very scratchy and I struggle a lot with the rotating boxes challenge with all the perspectives. I remember up to a point where I just look at the page and was like ( damn, this is crap XD, hence explain the missing boxes ... -w-, but I complete it anyway) I am now currently moving on to the 250 boxes challenge and once again thank you so much for your comments, it really help a lot! : )
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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