Hello, I'm going to review your homework today! Congratulations on completing the 250 Box Challenge and showing your determination!
You hatching lines are very neat and there's no fraying.
Line weight is subtle and applied properly.
Lines extend in the right directions and although I can see a few mistakes, it doesn't happen often.
There's no divergence in your extended lines, but I did catch some parallel lines. It doesn't happen often either, and it's not a huge mistake, but I thought I'd mention it. If you're interested, you can include boxes with more dramatic foreshortening in your future warm-ups!
Your lines are mostly confident and accurate, but I noticed a slight wobble and arch every now and then. It seems to me that you may be drawing your lines from your wrist or elbow - preferably moving from your shoulder would help maintain a straight trajectory of your lines. This was covered in Lesson 1 (https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/2/pivots).
I'd say you did pretty well with the inner corners, however I do see some struggle. You could try comparing the angles between your lines and make an educated guess based on that, here's a helpful graph on that: https://i.imgur.com/8PqQLE0.png. You could also try changing the order in which you draw your boxes, and here's a graph on that: https://imgur.com/a/DHlA3Jh.
Overall, I think you did a good job and there's no need for revisions. I also noticed that your submission is almost a month old (which is quite a lot if you want to move forward quickly!) and I encourage you to join the Drawabox discord server (https://discord.com/invite/drawabox). It's much quicker to get help on a specific homework assignment if you need it, and I think you might be interested in the #critique-exchange channel as well!
Next Steps:
Your 50%, 10-15 minute warm-up (of course try to include previous exercises), move on to Lesson 2. Good luck!
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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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