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These are the best of my current level, try to maintain the energy of my line within each time limit. I’m so proud of the 5s trumpet one. Love the challenge. Try to add it to my daily routine, after I m done travelling in the next week. Marshall, I think if possible, you can introduce different perspective challenges in the perspective course as bonus lesson.

Hey Marshall, I think I took your sentence, "30 times and you'll get it, 50 times and you'll never forget," a little too seriously... 😂 After 7 hours and 30 minutes of intensive practice spread over a bit more than two weeks, I've created these 150 little scenes, exploring various angles and points of view. Now, I feel like I can instinctively locate the horizon line and angles without even thinking—it’s become second nature! 😅 The first 50 were 5-minute studies, the next 50 took 3 minutes each, and the last 50 just 1 minute each. Next up, I'll try drawing the same scene from different points of view. 👍🏻 It was a challenging yet incredibly rewarding experience. I truly feel the benefits of the effort deep down. Thanks a lot, Marshall!

Great exploration in this assignment, vanishing point placement is something that I wanted to learn in this course. Explored different placements via reference, which gave me some conceptual idea about the effect of it. Definitely a fun one to draw some environment.

I tried twice the approach, but I used the cotton stick to blend in the value, which is great to use for big shape, but not that good with the smaller shape. Something doesn't look so right for the second portrait, did I misjudge the value? I don't even know why... Rendering is my weak spot, try to improve it in this month.

Dear Stan and my fellow classmates, SORRY that I haven't been actively participating in the class lately, although I can manage to draw around 30 mins per day in the last 2-3 months. I decided to reattempt the assignment after watching your demos and my classmates' works. This time the value gradation in the halftone seems better. And I make sure the value in the cast shadow is darker than the shadow side of the sphere and the reflected light is darker than the halftone. Things about the texture of my paper. I remember Stan said some people can utilize the texture of the paper. But I couldn't find an artist as reference in that regard. Frankly, the texture thing is what I tried to eliminate but failed. My pencil is well sharpened, so I am not really sure why the texture keep showing up...

Dear Marshall and my fellow classmates, Sorry that I was not actively participating in this course in the last 2-3 months, as life has been difficult lately. Finally, I got a month to draw as much as I want. But this pattern will last for at least 1 more year. I will try my best to absorb the course material as much as possible though. Here is part of my assignment from the last 1-2 months. The first 3 pics and the last 1 were done last week. The 3rd and 4th were done after watching the demo, definitely go better in managing the proportion. Tried to simplify the form, using a simple blob and box approach. Kind of struggling for the Pokémon in the last pic, as it is really organic, and so many plane cuts, I tried my best to consider how much plane I am seeing and simplified some planes, but yeah, that's difficult.

I would love to have some feedback before I try level 2. Sorry for the long passage. Forgot how much time I spent, as I was enjoying and relaxed then got lost of time, more than an hour for sure. Sequence of shading: same as Stan but I think I actually spend more time on the dark side then the light side, coz at first, I put in some what a mid value thats not dark enough for the terminator. Struggles: 1. The shape of reflected light. Closer to the ground receives more light. I get that part in the demo, but I am not so sure if my shape actually wraps around the form or looks like a stain. 2. The drastic change of value around the terminator is confusing. I guess I am still following the logic that the top is darker than the bottom(closer to the ground) 3. And yes, erasing and then adding back value is difficult... I repeated this process multiple times, just to get the value right back on track... 4. Finding the light source and actually indicating where the light source is with a line on paper is also my struggle, since the light source is in 3d space 5. the light side seems too light, I almost didn't see the highlight? What the value should be in the light side is a struggle. What works: 1. 1 value for most area in the light source. 2. Horizontal hatching to show the planes 3. vertical, with a bit curve hatching (don know what s called? cross contour hatching?) toward light source to describe the sphere, works. 4. cast shadow: 3 values and edges seem ok?

I can see the benefit of simply naming the axis, kind of like why the characters have to shout their skills name out in a fight scene. Having trouble with the spinning table though, The table width is still x axis even when it is pointing toward xz direction if we use the bigger box x- axis as the x axis of the whole?