Hi!
I'm not an official teacher, just a fellow student with a couple suggestions — this is not a full critique.
Contour Curves/Sausages — since you have a tendency to place your ellipse curves inside the overall form of the sausage, try focusing for some of them on overcorrecting or deliberately making each one touch. I know it's tricky while also trying to maintain confidence. You are doing a good job keeping them tubelike with spherical ends.
On your louse, good job maintaining confidence with the linework. The 3 legs that face the viewer have sausages that are good. In contrast notice how the smaller sausages on the far side have more wobble to them. Your head and thorax feel solidly fused and have a convincing directionality, while the abdomen feels more flat. I think this is in part do to the way you have drawn the skirt. See if on future attempts you can have added forms more fully wrap on top of the basic constructions. In other words, try drawing the skirt with a little more curve.
We're all on the journey together :)
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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