Good job on completing the lesson!
You did a good job with the lines. There is some wobble every now and then but I can tell you use your whole arm and you don't hesitate too much. The superimposed lines have a few lines that go off track but this will improve if you add this excercise to your warmups. Make sure you do them so you can improve and work on the accuracy of your lines aswell.
I will point out that on the ellipses tables there are quite a few of ellipses that aren't fit properly and are floating around. The same problem can be seen on the ellipses in planes excercise. As for the ellipses, they look confident for the most part so good job on that. Add this excercise to your warmups so you can practice fitting the ellipses properly. Work on keeping them close together and having them touch the borders of the box (But don't forget that executing your ellipses with confidence comes first!!!).
There are issues with the boxes on the perspective excercises. Everyone makes mistakes in this part of the lesson (me included), so don't worry about it. What's important is that you understood the assigments. With the 250 boxes challenge, you will improve a lot and get a great understanding on 3D boxes.
You did a good job. Move on to the 250 boxes challenge and lesson 2. Also, make sure you follow the 50/50 rule while you make the 250 box challenge, otherwise you will feel burned out. This challenge takes more time than you expect.
Next Steps:
Move on the 250 box challenge
Add tables of ellipses to your warmups.
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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