Assignments like these are what challenge my understanding of my own observational skills. I'm glad to be given that chance, even when I fall short of my own expectations. Here's a few of my favorite works of art, from some of my favorite artists and I'll try to do my best to analyze them. The first one is an environmental/background by Kazuo Oga done for the Ghibli film, "Only Yesterday", and I'd rate it thusly: Diminution: 5 Convergence: 4 Foreshortening: 4 Overlap: 3 Atmosphere: 4 Next is a woodblock print by Hasui Kawase of Zojoji Temple in Shiba. Diminution: 3 Convergence: 1 Foreshortening: 1 Overlap: 5 Atmosphere: 3 After this is one of my favorite works by Tolkien, titled "Bilbo comes to the Huts of the Raft-elves". Diminution: 5 Convergence: 4 Foreshortening: 2 Overlap: 4 Atmosphere: 4 And lastly, one I discovered from Maurice LeLoir, called "Opportunity Makes the Thief". Diminution: 4 Convergence: 2 Foreshortening: 3 Overlap: 4 Atmosphere: 5 I'm still hunting down treasures when and where I can. I'm realizing I just haven't done that enough and that I've been missing out on a wealth of artistic inspiration. There's always so much more to learn.

Amazing how such small movements can wear the arm down :)

This project made me realize I am drawn to works that use overlap, diminution, and atmosphere in that order to form a pleasing picture. I prefer landscapes and natural forms in art. I don't know if it is a symptom of the works I chose or lack of training but I was hard pressed to find any foreshortening in the pieces. I looked in the organic forms (tree limbs and people mostly). The only example I could find is in the Booth piece with the chair on the left hand side. But even that I think is more convergence than foreshortening. I am not overly familiar with a comic beyond Calvin & Hobbes. Looking at some of Waterson's work for the daily strips it is mostly overlap. But when he gets a bigger color Sunday strip he can definitely use all the tricks to bring a comic up to the level (in my opinion) of fine art.

Did a couple more of these, they're fun but they hurt my brain, credit to Carlos Perez and Miqdad down in the comments as I looked for inspiration to try to figure out some of their submissions and make variations of my own. Also tried to do the last one with the Oscar Reutersvard triangle cube illustration but I got stuck and hopefully someone can help me on this: How do you measure/find the space between each block and make it consistent? I can't figure it out.

Some waterfalls from imagination! I really enjoyed experimenting with ellipses to construct more organic shapes. I feel like I fall into the “perspective is just cubes” trap and everything I make becomes boxy and uninteresting— but this got my creative brain singing! :D I especially enjoyed figuring out that you can use the concave side of the ellipse as well as the convex side in order to create more interesting waterfall shapes. This is so cool!

1. Arthur Rackham, Moebius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Vess, Franklin Booth, Hiroshi Yoshida, Demi Lang (The last 2 I just learned about but love) 2. Bringing 2d to 3d, I am trained as an architectural draftsperson but want to bring that skill into illustration and world building. Combining natural forms with engineered objects eg: clouds with aircraft, foliage around buildings, water around boats, etc.

Continuing on to the hard assignment. I’m pretty happy with how it looks. I downloaded TTB_Oil_Paint_2018 brush set for procreate and used those for this assignment. Definitely open to feedback. Tried to incorporate some thoughts that were presented in the two example videos you put out so far.

I started out this course on my iPad, which was just ok. Luckily I still have a big stash of art supplies around and gave it a go the old fashioned way and woah, I'm gonna need to switch back to traditional for this course. Sooooo much better with a pencil and paper as opposed to digitally.