Hey there Ragatoni! Yeah, that's totally fine - that's how we usually get the ghosted planes exercise. :) Anyway, welcome to Drawabox! I'm sluggy, I'll be going over your submission today.
Lines
Strong start here! Your lines look pretty straight and I can see that there is only fraying on the far end, telling me you're taking the time too line up your pen. Likewise, you appear to be executing each line without hesitation as there is very little wobble in your super-imposed or ghosted lines. Since you seem to be pretty comfortable with the flow, I would recommend that you go ahead and use the ghosting technique to begin working on your accuracy. The eventual goal is to have a clean confident line that hits the end point you set down without over or undershooting.
Ellipses
Nice work with your ellipses! It looks like you're drawing through them the right number of times. Likewise, your ellipses each have a confident even shape and are fitting nicely into their alloted spaces, so I would say you have a good amount of control over each mark. The same goes for your ellipses in planes. Nice work on that!
Pretty decent work with your funnels. You do a good job keeping the ellipses aligned with the minor axis, which is great to see. That will come in handy with later lessons.
Rough Perspective
Good work on this exercise! You keep your horizontals parallel with the horizon while your verticals are perpendicular, which helps eliminate unnecessary guesswork in one point perspective. Likewise, your lines look nice and neat, telling me you're properly applying the ghosting technique. That's often a struggle when it comes to applying the technique to forms, so nice work!
Rotated Boxes
Really strong work with this challenge. You get a good amount of rotation on each of the minor axes and you're drawing through your boxes. I think one thing that would've helped you would've been to keep the gaps between each box narrow and consistent - that would help with guesswork again, by measuring each box against the last. Nice work with the hatchmarks, I can see that you followed the faces of each box.
Organic Perspective
Really good start here. Your linework remains of consistent in quality, although there's room for improvement with getting sets of parallel lines to converge more consistently towards a shared vanishing point. That's fine though, that's nothing the 250 box challenge can't help with.
Next Steps:
I'm happy to mark this as complete and send you on to the 250 box challenge. Nice work!
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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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