Overall good job, but i think the rotated boxes exercise could have used more structure. It looks as if you didn't use the adjacent boxes to estimate the angles of the edges and relied purely on your intuition for each individual box.
I would like you to redo, but this time, make it simple, start with all the front-facing planes of all boxes first then finish the rest.
Here's a link that will clarify the approach: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/comments/cqvxap/i_created_an_extra_rotated_boxes_guide_for_people/
Otherwise, I would have recommended you try to vary your boxes in the organic perspective exercise a little more, not in terms of size, but dimensions and angles, but it's not a problem since you'll get plenty of opportunity to do that in the 250 boxes challenge.
For, just do the rotated boxes with the new approach and post it here, then you're good to go!
Next Steps:
Redo the rotated boxes exercise with the new approach.
Marking this as complete, if you want to re-submit what's been asked of you you can still do it, just making sure you get the badge for completing Lesson 1
Next Steps:
Marking this as complete, if you want to re-submit what's been asked of you you can still do it, just making sure you get the badge for completing Lesson 1
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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