I have just submitted Lesson 1 Homework and posted it for community critique, but i wonder if i should wait for days or maybe even weeks to be critiqued or just paid membership for patreon to get official critique?
If you choose to do community critique make sure you join the discord and check out the #critique-exchange channel, it makes it easier to get critiques without paying (though you need to help others in exchange)
Hi Elodin
Yeah... I have already connected discord to my drawabox account. Btw, can i start for critique other now or should i wait for your critique first before i can do that?
If you wait 7 days after posting a lesson 1 submission you can ask on the discord channel and you'll get added to the queue even if you didn't do any critique. When you get that one you can already do lesson 1 critiques to pay for the other submissions if you want more
Oh ok... Thanks elodin
It's up to you honestly. By paying you are asking for feedback from people who has been through it and runs the show, while doing the free thing asks others to comment at their own pace, and might not be as nuanced as official feedback.
I don't regret paying for it, but again this is for you to decide.
Do you get critique for your homeworks much quicker when you signed patreon membership for official critique compare to doing free community critique?
For example, you submit the homeworks in community critique style, you wait for days or maybe even months for the homeworks to be critiqued, but when you submit it in official critique style, you get critiqued in 1 to 2 days after you submit it
Is that how official critique works? ( i'm sorry if it's kind of rude but i just want to know)
You get answered within (usually) 4 days, and you get specific criticism suited for you.
I see.. Thanks for the info
Personally I've gotten much more out of DaB since switching to paid critique. I went up to lesson 4 on my own before getting fed up with how rare it is to get a community critique, especially past lesson 2. The critiques are very in depth with what I did right and what I need to work on, and I feel more trusting of them since they came from an experienced artist.
If you can't afford it or plan on doing DaB casually then I wouldn't say it's worthwhile, but if you can afford it and you plan on getting as much out of the course as you can then I recommend trying it. You can take a look at homework on this site submitted for official critique to get an idea of what the critiques are like.
Honestly, i can't afford it right now, i try to follow for community review by posting my homeworks in here and in discord server
the paid is 5 to 10 a month which is dirt cheap so paid is the way
Lol... everyone recommends me the official no matter how broke i am... maybe later i'll do it
Bruh just take in some cans, sell a random thing you don't want, $5 is nothing.
If you can afford it I highly recommend getting the paid critique!
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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