Is it fine to ghost all the way to the VP during the 250 Box Challenge to see where the line should go or is it better to only visualize it?
Indeed it is fine to ghost all the way back - and I encourage you to do it. The only distinction I would make is that when you ghost back, do not attempt to picture the vanishing point itself - rather, focus on the other lines of the same set (both those that have been drawn, and those that have not yet been drawn). Focus on how they converge, and how the line you're about to draw ought to be oriented in order to converge with them. This reliance on things that are physically close to the box allows us to infer useful information based on what is present in our drawings, rather than trying to keep track of what could be hundreds off vanishing points in a complex scene, when tackling actual illustrations.
Ah ok, thank you so much for the reply
Ghosting is fine as long as you don't actually draw the line. Also sometimes the VP won't be on the page so it won't help so ghosting in the 'direction' is better. I think this will help in eventually visualizing it. Uncomfortable talks about this in the 250 Box Challenge Critique video (Syllastew). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXPY6XnCmI
Good luck :)
Thank you too for the reply
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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