This website uses cookies. You can read more about what we do with them, read our privacy policy.
1:46 AM, Sunday February 7th 2021
Super Imposed Lines: Some lines have a bit of wobbling, showing hesitation or lack of confidence. Several bundles have fraying at both end, don't be afraid to take a little extra time to properly line up your first point.
Ghosted Lines: A lot of the lines that stop at both points have a bit of wobble, its less important that the lines hit their mark and more that their straight, accuracy will come with time and practice.
Ghosted Planes: A few wobbly lines, but otherwise good effort.
Table of Ellipses: Not much to say, good representation of lesson material, just keep practicing with a set goal.
Ellipses in Planes: Some of the ellipses fail to touch all sides of the plains, but a clear attempt is made. 6 of the planes have no ellipses in them at all, its important to complete the whole page for practice.
Funnels: The ellipses in many of the funnel are not aligned by their minor axis.
Plotted Perspective: I see 1 grid line that is drawn with a noticeable gap in it, but otherwise good.
Rough Perspective: Some lines have a bit of wobble to them.
Rotated Boxes: The gap between boxes starts very consistent near the center,but becomes wider and more irregular toward the edges.This is, however, a very challenging exercise and an overall good attempt.
Organic Perspective: Second page center frame, the boxes are very similar in size and don't read very well for creating depth.
Overall, I think the work shows fair understanding of lesson material, execution will come with time and practice.
Next Steps:
The 250 box challenge would be the next step, it will give a lot of practice with vanishing points and understanding how they influence the perspective.
3:36 AM, Tuesday February 23rd 2021
Fantastic. I like that you're using the whole page to get maximum mileage. That's a mark of a good student in my opinion. I also like that you're working on an old calendar to save paper--be cautious though as a mark of respect to the course and the people looking at your work it would be better to use cleaner paper, at least in the later lessons when the excercises get more complex and having such lines in the background would be a distraction for the viewer.
Here is my biggest critique: Your freehand boxes have very wobbly lines. But I can tell you can make straighter, better lines by the earlier exercises. That means you may have stopped ghosting and rushed too much. Don't do that.
Keep up the good work. I'm marking this complete.
Next Steps:
250 box challenge.
Drawabox-Tested Fineliners (Pack of 10, $17.50 USD)
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.