so far I have received community critiques but if I was to switch to patreon critiques, I would happily redo lesson 1 and lesson 2 but is redoing the 250 box challenge necessary or would that also have to be redone fully?
While we don't force students to redo the 250 box challenge in full, we do ask that they do at least 50 additional boxes after receiving their official feedback/completion for lesson 1, so we can see any such feedback applied in them. When you've done the additional 50 boxes, you can submit them alongside the original 250 boxes.
And, of course, you will need to do Lessons 1 and 2 over, as you mentioned.
Ok thats a relief, thanks for the reply, would that mean i will have to redo the dissections as I have put a lot of effort in them. I've managed to earn some money to pay for patreon but the prospect of redoing dissections makes me feel kind of demoralised, however i do understand that going through them again will give me more consistent feedback
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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