Critique for 250 box challenge:
You have seemed to grasp the concepts of this challenge, which should mean that you have understood about 3D space and spatial relationships problems too.
Although your improvement is apparent from the beginning to the end of the exercise, here are a few remarks you can keep in mind to help you make boxes easily in the future:
*The inner corner- This is a problem faced by the majority of the people doing this challenge and it's justified since it's quite difficult to nail it perfectly with the other sides of the box. Here is a reference which you can use to learn how to improve it-
https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png
You can also use a different approach to tackle this problem better-
*Ghosting lines- Although you have tried to use this method and have drawn many lines (and boxes) confidently, you seemed to have been hesitant while drawing some lines, even at the latter pages of the challenge. Prioritize confidence over accuracy and dont hesitate to make mistakes as you learn from them. A tip to draw straighter lines is to arch your lines slightly towards the opposite direction (if they are arching downwards, try to arch your lines slightly upwards and vice versa)
In conclusion, you have made significant progress and are ready for the next exercise. Keep the mentioned points into consideration, and apply them in the future exercises and warm-ups.
Thank you very much for taking your time to check out my work! I'll take into consideration your tips to draw the inner corner and straight lines.
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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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