Super excited about this class and ready to embark on this year long perspective adventure!! :) 1- For my little treasure collection (that I hope to keep expanding upon), I have artists like Cory Loftis, Even Amundsen, Nathan Fowkes and Patrick O'Keefe and other artists from the Spiderverse Crew. I love how each one of these artists have created pieces that have such solid perspective which creates the perfect stage for all the story, composition, color, characters etc to take the center spot. Although perspective isn't the primary focus of their work in a sense, it is, however, the most essential piece that brings everything else together! 2- I want to have a solid fundamental base and spatial awareness in my drawings so I could create characters that feel grounded and almost tangible.. the way Even Amundsen's characters are. I'd also love to be able to create stylized backgrounds that can evoke certain feelings, to be able to manipulate shapes and place them in perspective such that the place feels real and inviting and other worldly, all at the same time! Some of it is to record the awe and wonder that I feel when I am in a specific place, the kind of awe that I find photographs just can't quite seem to capture. Nathan Fowkes's plein air paintings seem to capture that feeling for me!

I’m Jonatan Rodriguez, I have been looking forward for Mashall Vandruff’s perspective course, I’m so excited to finally give a real try at figuring this subject out, it’s always been a really difficult thing to learn by myself and I know these courses will let me crack the code for it once and for all. What I want to learn from Perspective: -Be able to draw anything in unique poses and angles from imagination -Design and constructions of environments, designing buildings, -Placing objects within an environment in perspective and different angles. -Placing characters in a designed space/environment in more than flat angles, and be inventive with different kind of shots and angles. -Drawing characters in many different angles, depth and with foreshortening. -Learn how to push extreme foreshortening and angles. -Understand multiple vanishing points from different directions. -Keeping character proportions correct while in perspective -Create scenes with depth -Understand perspective to a master level so I can learn how to break the rules and create interesting visuals. -Create engaging Storytelling via unique angles and perspective. I want to be able to learn these tools to be able to draw stories and comics and illustrations that can evoke a feeling to the viewer. My most extreme weaknesses that I want to improve on: -Foreshortening when a limb of a character goes towards the camera. -In general designing camera angles from above and below -Placing characters in environments. -Drawing backgrounds/Background design My Inspirations: -Hans Vredeman de Vries: (Technical Perspective, Background Design) -M.C. Escher: (Technical Perspective, Background Design) -Moebius: (Character design, Technical Perspective, Engaging Angles, Foreshortening, Background design, Composition, Layout Design) -Juanjo Guarnido: [Blacksad] (Technical Perspective, Engaging Angles, Background Design, Layout Design) -Hiroshi Yoshida: (Perspective, Color, Background Design, Landscape Design, Composition) -Winsor McCay: [Little Nemo and More] (Character Design, Color, Technical Perspective, Background Design, Inventive Drawing, Composition) Bernie Wrightson: (Inking and Pencils, Perspective, Engaging Angles, Landscape Design, Background Design) -Kentaro Miura: [Berserk and More] (Character Design, Technical Perspective, Engaging Angles, Background Design, Landscape Design, Composition) -Yusuke Murata: [One Punch Man/Eyeshield 21](Character Design, Ensemble Shots, Action Shots/Angles, Dynamic Perspective, Foreshortening, Extreme Angles/Foreshortening, City/Landscape Design, Composition) -Katsuhiro Otomo: [Akira and more](Character Design, Technical Perspective, Mechanical Perspective, Engaging Angles, Background Design, City/Landscape Design, Vehicle Drawing/Design) -Kim Jung Gi: (Inventive drawing with perspective from imagination, Inventive Angles, Foreshortening/Extreme Foreshortening, Vehicle Drawing) Clarke (Frederic Seron): [Melusine] (Character Design, Fantasy Design, Town Design, Interior Design, Perspective and Angles) Delaf (Marc Delafontaine): [Les Nombrils] (Interior Design, Background Design, Perspective and Angles) Michael Spooner: : (Perspective, Interior Design, Background Design, Landscape Design) Tradd More:(Character design, Character poses, Action Angles, Background Design)

Hi guys! This is my first attempt at the rapids. I would appreciate any feedback! I was quite happy with how it turned out but I would like to try out other angles that are less straight forward that this front on view.

One of my favorite artists is Hayao Miyazaki. I love how it feels so realistic. All of the ghibli films has amazing perspective. These pics are from my art of Totoro book.

Jules Guerin, Kentaro Miura, M.C.Escher, Giovanni Piranesi.

Hello, I am Antonio. I work mainly with watercolors and landscapse as my subject. I would like to get better at creating depth with perspective. Even though I know values can help, I feel like understanding perspective better can help me place elements better in my composition, or for me to be able to picture the same scene but from a different angle that I "can´t" see or access if that makes sense.

Hi , I'm Nul, artist with trad, with 1 year and half of experience. I'm new to the perspective topic, and I would like to start 1 and 2 points perspective to build sceneries with solid fundations , for background and character to cohexist and a coherent ways for the eye. I like the work of Kim Jung Gi, Ludwig Deutsch and Jean-Léon Gérôme.

I'm Clayton. I'm a huge fan of classic book cover artists, specifically from the pulp magazine eras. I would also like to be able to create eye catching images like those and have quite a bit of portrait drawing and painting experience from that quest. From researching this project, I wanted to find an artist who could marry the expressive style of character with the impressive scale of perspective environments. I've found my favorite in that is Walter Molino. Molino's art creates such a sense of impending danger in both the scale of his backgrounds and action of the focal characters!

Hi, I'm Matt. I'm looking to get a better handle on perspective largely to improve my ability to draw natural scenes from imagination. I'd like to be able to take subjects from the natural world and draw them in whatever orientation or scale is needed in order to convey the story of the scene. I've actually been very interested in Japanese woodblock prints, pictured here are works from Henmi Takashi and Hiroshi Yoshida. I'm really pumped that one of the first videos is an analysis of Hiroshi Yoshida's. I've also been combing through the works of Rien Poortvliet lately. Btw, if anyone is interested, a few months ago I found a Japanese woodblock prints archive at https://ukiyo-e.org/ . I've spent hours and hours picking my way through the collected images, broken down by era and artist. Some amazing stuff in there!

I tried to draw water in perspective, besides the fact that its a but messy, i think i drew it in too strong perspective. do anybody know how to fit 3 point perspective onto a normal sized piece of paper without it looking too extreme? i would also like any other critique!🙂👨‍🎨

Hi there! My name is Hal and I'm excited to start this course. I've drawn digitally on and off for years, but never put in the work to really hone my skills. Drawing environments has always been really tough for me, and I've struggled to translate things from my imagination to the page. My dream is to illustrate children's books! Like many others here, Studio Ghibli and, specifically, Hayao Miyazaki have created some of my favorite scenes in perspective. I'm also a huge fan of Albrecht Durer!

hello ! my name is alyssa, and I'm a student looking to get better and eventually master perspective. I'm taking the mastering course, so I'm not sure how long it'll be until I jump into the course, but I'm still happy to be a part of the community and participating! overall, I want perspective as a concept to be ingrained into my intuition, something that comes naturally to me and something I can draw from imagination while still maintaining believability. career wise, I'm interested in the realm of storyboarding, character design and storytelling and having perspective mastered in my toolbelt is incredibly necessary. favorite perspective artist is everyone's favorite perspective artist, but kim jung gi REALLY opened by eyes to how important inuition and form are when it comes to his incredible drawing abilities. I always find myself coming back to his artwork at the end of the day.

I'm a musician, but am learning to draw so I could combine my projects combining my own hand-drawing animation and music. I hope to achieve my goal of becoming a professional artist which makes a living combining classical music and animation. I am an amateur artist and have not exposed myself much to perspective art, but have always wanted to practise perspectives further but don't know where to continue (Yes i've done the boxes drawing!), i especially struggle to draw my characters and sceneries in perspective. I am also currently in the proko's beginner's course but I really don't want to miss out on this course as i'm a big fan of draftsman podcast! My influences are rather diverse due to my background. I. Aaron Blaise 2. Kazao Oga/ studio ghibli, My neighbor totoro 3. Gaudi, Parc Guell 4. Moebius 5. Es devlin

Hi! I have trouble drawing from imagination and rely heavily on references. I wish to get better at perspective so that I can draw things at different angles, or create my own poses. I really admire the art of MC Escher and Alex Grey and I hope that I can reach their level some day. Thank you for this course!

Hello, rookie here. So far, all my sketch books are working on anatomy. They are filled with disembodied heads, hands, torso, etc. Everything i draw just floats in page space. I want to learn to create worlds. I want to tell stories eventually. Artist shown: Rain Szeto

Hi I'm Ella. I'm a printmaker and I joined this course so that I am not limited by the poses in reference photos. I would love to be able to manipulate poses and switching angles on objects. I would love to create more intricate compositions like Rembrandt does in this etchings.

Hi all, my name is Patrick. I have a BFA in Sequential Art (comics/storyboarding) from Savannah College of Art and Design and hope to use my skills to illustrate for a living someday. My main interests are in character design and story, but it has become clear that I'll need a firmer understanding of perspective principles to take things to the next level and draw from imagination. I'm excited to learn more in this course! While I understand some perspective basics like 1, 2, and 3-point perspective and how objects recede into the background, I find that I hit a wall when it comes to the application. Breaking away from the more rigid grids and layouts to make something more visually appealing and dynamic while keeping within the rules to avoid distracting distortions and other missteps is tough for me. I think I know the rules, just not how to effectively break them. I find myself drawn to images that are highly dynamic for character acting, or ones that let the environment shine to communicate the tone, especially when it communicates some sort of peaceful or intimidating grandeur. Artists Shown: Alex Ahad (Skullgirls), Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away), Joakim Ericsson (Warhammer 40k: Darktide), Paul Dainton (Warhammer 40k), Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man)

I am an aspiring comics artist, and hope to someday master perspective in the same way the old masters of the comics art form had. I long to draw densely detailed, structurally sound environments, populated with characters in correct perspective- all without slavish adherence to photo reference.

My main goal is to be able to intuitively place characters in perspective and create dynamic poses, much like Peter Han, whose classes I've taken. These are some of his drawings. I ultimately want to be able to draw things from various angles in believable perspective and with depth. It does not have to be mathematically perfect, just good enough to fool the viewer.