Hello! I just finished the lesson. I would like someone to give critique to my work please! Thank you! :)
I did struggle the most with the Ellipses. In the Organic Perspective, I did use my wrist on the very small boxes since I overshoot them when using my shoulder. I'll keep on practicing these.
Hello, you did great! Your super imposed lines looked very clean, and your ghosted lines looked really nice. You do have a little bit of archs on some of the ghosted planes but other then that they look really good. Even though you said you had trouble on your ellipses they came out good. You did have some overlapping in the table but with practice, drawing ellipses will come much easier. The funnels looked good too! Your rough and plotted respective looked very nice too. Your rotated boxes and organic perspective all came out nice! So good job :) I'm gonna pass you and let you move on to the 250 box challenge.
Next Steps:
Next start the 250 box challenge. A recommendation I give is definitely do warm-ups when starting each session of the 250 box challenge. This will help you, even with trying to use your shoulder, since you did say you were using your wrist a bit. You can use lesson 1 exercises as a warm up, I sugget doing the ghosted lines and planes, but feel free to choose the others :) Keep up the good work!
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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