It's not too cluttered, but another separate issue is that you appear to be drawing these boxes as though all their vanishing points are at infinity. That is not correct - all these sets of lines should have concrete vanishing points with actual convergence to them, be it gradual or rapid.
Hi uncomfortable!
I try to mix it up a lot, going from very close vanishing points (with dramatic foreshortening) to vanishing points very very far away, which is what this page was.
I take it I should skip the infinite vanishing points completely and just do distances where the convergence is visible?
Thanks for the advice ^^
It's more that the infinite vanishing points aren't something you choose - they occur based on the orientation of the box (or rather, a given set of lines). If a set of lines are running perpendicular to the viewer's angle of sight (so straight across from left to right, or straight up and down, without slanting towards or away from the viewer), then the vanishing point will be at infinity. If not, there should be a concrete vanishing point.
Due to the nature of a box, you can only ever have up to two sets of lines in a box that meet this criteria (hence why there's no "zero point perspective" - that's more the territory of axonometric/isometric projection, which is a separate method of depicting 3D space from perspective projection). Furthermore, since these boxes are being rotated randomly in space, we can pretty much assume that they'll never align so perfectly with the viewer's angle of sight, so it's better to stick to 3 concrete vanishing points for all of them.
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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