Hey! Congratulations for finishing lesson on!
You did a great job overall.
Some of the first page superimposed lines were a bit wobbly, but on the second page it got much better;
Your ghosted lines also had some wobbliness, but were pretty accurate, and it shows on the following exercises;
On the tables of ellipses, I noticed that the absence of a frame on the first page made the ellipses seem a bit floaty, since they did not have good limits for you to work with. On the second page it got much better in this aspect, since you drawn the frame. On the funnels you also did pretty well in keeping the minor axis aligned;
On the organic and rotated boxes there were some perspective problems, but this is normal due to the difficulty of these exercises. The 250 box challenge exists to improve on this!
Next Steps:
You shoul proceed to the 250 box challenge, as it will help with the common issues most of us find the the rotated and organic boxes exercises. If you have some time, evaluating other people's homework also helps in better understanding these concepts!
Remember to keep dong these exercises as quick warmups before drawing sessions ;)
Thanks for the review! I've plunged ahead on the 250 boxes (currently finished 42 of them) and I can already see my grasp of perspective improving a lot.
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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