so I went back and rewashed the first 50 boxes video after finishing the first 50 boxes and realized that the instructions say to use a different color for each set of edges that extend to the same vanishing point. I instead used a different color for each box on the page. is this an issue? should I redo the first 50? other than that, I will make sure to do the line extensions as instructed from now on.
I'm gonna have to disagree with Stulern on this one - I definitely agree that the purpose of using different colors is to provide clarity to yourself and to the grader when assessing your work, but I don't think that using a single color per box is "wrong". Either can work, and in fact I found that as you begin to get more bold and add more overlap to your boxes, having separate colors for each set of edges makes things less clear than having a single color per box.
Take this page from my submission as an example. I used a different color for each set of edges, and the whole thing is a muddled mess. Unless you have 15 different colors of pens, you're going to end up re-using some colors, and since we're extending to the edges of the page, you're going to have some of the same colors overlapping, sometimes to very similar vanishing points, and it just makes the process of identifying which lines belong to which plane more difficult. Not impossible by any means, just harder, which goes against the purpose of using different colors in the first place.
Contrast that page with the last page of my submission, especially toward the top and bottom left. There are four distinct sets of lines that are all overlapping and converging relatively close to one another, but because I know that each color corresponds to a single box, it makes it much easier for me to follow that color back to the appropriate plane - I only needed to use 5 different colors of pen, so there are no repeating colors to get confused with. Each color goes back to the same box, so even in the mess of overlapping lines, I can always quickly pick out which lines go back to where.
TL;DR, do whatever makes it more clear for you. I started out using one color per set of lines, but found part way through the challenge that one color per box ended up being much more clear, especially as you begin to overlap your boxes more.
yes, I was wondering about that after trying one page of line extensions with one color for each set of edges! I found it much more difficult to discern converging edges especially when line extensions of the same color from different boxes overlapped. thank you!
Yes it is an issue that you used a different colors for each box on the page. I believe the separate colors are so either for yourself or the person critiquing the boxes has a more clear understanding of how your lines are converging. However do not attempt to redo the lines you have already produced. Move on for now, and if you are doing official critique, the TA might give homework for those boxes if they cannot discern the convergence correctly from the confusing color scheme. But, you will be doing boxes in the later 150 section similar to the first 50, not the same but similar.
thank you for your reply! I ended up waiting to see if anyone else was willing to answer my question before making a decision, and I'll have to agree with cornball's reasoning. but i appreciate your answer nonetheless!
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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