Organic Arrows: Good job! One small error you made was that you use hatching where it isn't really needed. You use it on turns on the outside of the arrow that face the viewer. Hatching in this exercise is used on the insides of the arrow that are hidden from us. You added hatching on the side that is facing us. This isn't a huge deal but it does make your arrows a bit more confusing than they need to be.
Organic Forms: Not bad, but both pages share two significant errors. Your cross-sectional ellipses on page one do not change degrees at all, same goes for your contour curves on page 2. Those are pretty uniform. Your ellipses are pretty wobbly and some don't even touch the edge of the form. Your contour curves also don't hook around the surface of your form, not even touching the edge. This is not a bad attempt but I highly recommend you redo this exercise before moving on, because it's going to be super important if you're going to proceed with this course.
Texture Analysis: Well done. You definitely put time into observing the textures of these materials. And you follow the transition from dense to sparse.
Dissections: Great work. Your textures are all thought out and deliberate, proving you spent time observing your reference. You also mind the curvature. Good job on that.
Form Intersection: Awesome work. You even went the extra mile with the intersections and used your space well. Good job.
Organic Intersection: Well done. Your shadows also aren't exaggerated and you take the volume of your forms into account when drawing them. Good job.
Next Steps:
Lesson 3
Thanks a lot for the feedback! I personally find it difficult to relax and draw smoothly whenever I'm doing organic forms, so there's where my focus should be.
Thanks again! Cheers.
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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