Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes
11:30 PM, Friday November 13th 2020
Lesson 1 done! I'd love any critique, feedback, or advice on how to improve moving forward. Thank you! :)
Superimposed Lines: Looking really good
Ghosted Lines: You have no pages for ghosted lines, please attach.
Ghosted Planes: If you scanned your pages before drawing ellipses please attach.
Ellipses in Planes: Your ellipses look quite confident and smooth, they will be better if you keep practicing.
Tables of Ellipses: You did not draw through some of them, and it looks like you need more time to really feel your shoulder motion. But I like where you are going.
Funnels of Ellipses: Pay attention to how your ellipses get narrower in the middle and gets wider as you get away from the center, this information will be really helpful in further lessons.
Plotted perspective: You don't have the page. Please attach.
Rough perspective: Clean lines and accurate perspective
Rotated Boxes: You don't have it either.
Organic Perspective: Clean and confident lines
You have 5 missing pages, you need to attach them somehow.
Next Steps:
1 filled page of Ghosted Lines
2 filled page of Ghosted Planes
1 page of Rotated Boxes
1 page of Plotted Perspective
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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