Hi!
Congrats on complete the 250 box challenges, and extra kudos for your improving! you did a fine job there :)
Feel free to move forward lesson 2.
Laslas.
Next Steps:
Continue to lesson 2.
Lets get into it.
It looks like you've improved your line quality and hatching throughout the challenge.
However, it seems like you've missed one core principle of this challenge, which is the convergence lines. You've drawn them in all sorts of directions, but that does not help you analyze your boxes.
Next Steps:
Read over the challenge description paying attention to the convergence lines section. Make sure to watch the video that Uncomfortable has added to the text, if you're still unsure.
All the convergence lines should start from the initial Y going out into the distance (the converge lines start from the corner of the box that is closest to you in 3 point perspective, the inner-most corner of your hatched plane). Each of the three vanishing points will have 4 lines going to it.
Convergence lines should be about 2-3 times the length of that side of the box (if possible and your line doesn't go over the edge of the paper). However, don't be scared to go over other boxes with your convergence lines.
Go over every box of your current challenge and mark the correct lines with a different colored pen (giving a 2 slash cross-out to the lines that should not appear in your convergence analysis. But don't scribble out the wrong lines, a small cross-out is enough!).
Do 5 more pages of boxes with 5 boxes per page. Do analysis after each page to first check if you've done the convergences on the correct side. Secondly check if your convergences are lining up -- close vanishing points will have all the 4 lines converging into one point, far/infinite vanishing points will have convergence lines be near parallel -- and then figure out how you could fix them in your next page.
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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