I am a newbie on this site, but here is my feedback cuz I know it's a bummer to just hear an echo in the room. :)
Superimposed Lines: Really well done. I'm seeing a slight bend at the beginning of some lines? Is this from starting the line slowly, then increasing in speed. Dunno. My problem is arcing due to slowing down.
Ghosting lines: Well done. I only see a slight arc on the longest of lines. Great.
Ghosting planes: Good job on accuracy here.
Table of elipses: Nice work of staying within margins, accuracy is good. Elipses in planes are nice as well. I see some elipses are fatter at 1 end than the other but all in all really good.
Elipses in funnels: I see a jump from a very narrow elipse in the middle to much fatter. Maybe gradual increase?
Plotted perspective is excellent.
Rough perspective: Perspective is not my strong suit, but I believe the lines should plot back to roughly the same point on the horizon line theoretically? I think your boxes on the horizon line and below are getting there. The boxes floating above could be a practice thing? Huge improvement from 1st rough perspective to last.
Rotated boxes: Hats off to you! Wow! This exercise blew me away and I'd love for you to give me a lesson. Sorry to not have more to say.
Organic Perspective: Believable perspective. I see more boxes with the tops viewable than with the bottoms. I think this is a preference thing. Just thinking of when you're warming up or practicing you could work on the boxes from a different perspective.
Next Steps:
Thanks for letting me view your work. Really nice job, especially on the rotated box exercise. Good luck and hope you get another critique!
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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