I'm gonna start off by saying all your stuff is very well done, but the lighting sucks. Your superimposed lines are your second weakest link right, but they'll improve as you spend more time drawing. Your ghosted lines are good with only a few wobbles and misses here and there. Ghost more if you lack confidence and and remove your pen early if you feel like you'll overshoot. Your ghosted planes are very good, though i do seem some wobble and inaccuracy in a few lines. The tables of ellipses are done extremely well, I can't say anything other than to tighten up your lines. Your ellipses in planes are your weakest work, but still well done. You need to curve your ellipses more, they keep having paritally straight sides . If you want to redo them go ahead but they aren't holding back. Your funnels are good, I can't say anything. I can't see anything wrong with your plotted perspectives. Your rough perspective need to be better at reaching the VP. I'm sure that if you redid the exercise they would be. Your rotated boxes are better then mine, can't say anything. Your organic perspective have lines that do not converge with their VP point. Have the lines on the sides converge with the central Y lines.
Next Steps:
Practice more and move on to the 250 box challenge when you get approval.
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry for the image quality, my phone camera barely works but I'll try to get pictures at better times of day. I'll work on my ellipses while I wait for clearance. They were definitely the thing that felt the sloppiest to me while doing it.
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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