Lesson 2: Contour Lines, Texture and Construction
2:07 AM, Friday April 9th 2021
My current organic forms look way better than the ones there.
Hey nice job getting through lesson two!
Here are a few suggestions:
Take the time to put your photos in the right order and right orientation, since your asking other people to review them when you upload them.
On the sausages (both contour and ellipse) you are often neglecting to vary the degree (the minor axis size) as it goes across the shape, making them look less 3d. You may want to go back to that exercise and look more at the examples / common errors part to get a better sense and practice that as a warm up. Also, you don't need quite that many ellipses going across the shape--so many gets visually distracting and thus doesn't show the form well.
Arrows: Work on getting smooth confident lines for them as a warm up. They are pretty shaky.
Hope those can be of some use to you. Good luck with your further studies!
Next Steps:
Move on to the next thing!
Alright, I'll keep that stuff in mind and I move forward and focus on the issues.
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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