250 Box Challenge
2:30 AM, Thursday August 13th 2020
If there's anything I learned from this exercise, it's that drawing straight and precise lines is really hard, and lining boxes up with three vanishing points by eyeball is even harder.
Hello, Azimuthzero. Congrats on finishing a hard challenge!
Having looked at your boxes, I think you pretty much nailed the challenge. Your convergences are mostly correct (converge away from the viewer. Your inner corners are also mostly within perspective. You've also drawn boxes in a good variety of orientations. Comparing your first and last boxes, it's clear that you have a good understanding how boxes sit in 3D space.
The only thing might need some work on is your linework - some of your hatching is a bit wobbly and frayed. Remember to ghost, start on the dot, and aim for confidence rather than accuracy. Overall, great attempt though!
Next Steps:
Move on to Lesson 2!
Thanks so much for looking through my work, I appreciate your time :)
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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