Hi Marshall 😃 All I want is to be able to express my ideas in a way that I can be content with. (Can one ever enough ..) When a story comes to me I want to be able to illustrate it. When I see people in the street I want to take a picture in my mind and draw them later in a way that one can see how they feel, what history they carry with them and to draw the surroundings that fit the atmosphere.  What more can I say. I don’t think in words, I’m (once was) a dancer, choreographer (among other things). Music gives everything. Maybe I want to make theatre, poetry on paper, I don’t know exactly. I have so many interests. But what I do know is that I need to learn more about perspective and much more will become possible. Yin Yang balance.  Like dreaming away on the piano with Debussy and practice discipline with Bach. I’m looking forward! Love your teachings.

The images I've gathered: 1 is by Amir Zand, 2 and 3 by Daniel Dociu, 4 by Hyojin Ahn, 5 by Patrick Faulwetter, 6 by Ying Yi, 7 and 8 by Yoshida Hiroshi, 9 and 10 by Zhengyi Wang A lot of the art that I am amazed by creates immersive, dramatic, believable fantasy and sci-fi environments. My goal is to be able to create that kind of space and scale in my art. The specific problems I aim to solve are how to make things look HUGE, far away or very close up, to create an immersive sense of space, and use extreme perspectives for drama and storytelling. I also travel a lot and would like to be able to sketch the places that I visit, so I need to get an intuitive sense of perspective so I can work quickly on site, along with the ability change how to modify the scene for compositional reasons, but keep it feeling true to life.

Hello! 1. Works showing good use of perspective (and good use of humor in naming it) Back when I studied graphic design in college I had to do a presentation about the way digital mediums, photography and film changed how children‘s books were illustrated – Perspective included. During my research I came across a Swiss illustrator, Jörg Müller (born 1942), and I was instantly captured by his use of perspective in storytelling. The pictures showcasing this are from three notable works of his. The first two are a series of illustrations of an imaginative city and landscape and how the architecture changed with the times. And I do have to mention the titles here because they are darkly hilarious. “Alle Jahre Wieder saust der Presslufthammer Nieder. - Oder die Veränderung der Stadt.” - And Once again, Year after Year the Jackhammer swishes down Again, or: The Changing of the Landscape. “Hier fällt ein Haus, dort steht ein Kran und Ewig droht der Baggerzahn” – Here falls a House, there stands a Crane and the Excavator looms Forevermore or: The Changing of the City. The titles rhyme in German, but unfortunately that is lost in translation. On the topic of architecture he also illustrated a fantastic work on the medieval city. The third work is titled: Aufstand der Tiere oder die neuen Stadtmusikanten : The Animal Riot –or: The new Town musicians) which is a parody retelling of The Grimm‘s fairytale The Town Musicians of Bremen. Set in a city where the protagonists, an owl, a crocodile, a panda and a penguin work in a commercialized world and want to break free to become musicians. The perspective was used wonderfully, sometimes in fish-eyed perspective and TV static distortions which for a children‘s book was so cool because for the longest time children’s book experts in Germany were convinced that use of perspective in children’s drawing is too much for a child’s brain to handle. The realistic backdrop of that city with those cartoonish looking animal protagonists made it such a mood. I don‘t know how accurate his use of perspective is, but it is accurate enough to be immersive to me. 2. Problems (and some extensive raving about history) There’s one very specific and several more general problems I want to tackle. I grew up in a small town in the west of Germany and this town dates back to medieval times. And there’s proof of the existence of settlements even before that (about 800 BC). There’s this really beautiful Gothic Revival church (built 1858-1864) with a raised relief of the apocalypse at the front facing side of the tower, (it’s stunning I cannot go by without stopping once to look at it) Without knowing perspective I don’t have the courage to attempt drawing it nor would it be a worthwhile effort. When working as an intern in the local culture and history museum I went though pictures showing the town and how it and its people used to look throughout history. If I could ever be able to make such drawings depicting the changing of my hometown throughout the ages. That would be so amazing. Other than that I‘d like to solve problems that mainly revolve around people in motion and how to make it look convincing: A rider speeding through a landscape on horseback, people dancing the swing and making it look good and giving it a sense of depth in space without the character’s looking like they are cutting through each other, a person on a roller-coaster, someone falling down the stairs. How to use perspective to make the environment look vast and big or how to make it look crammed and closing in. How to employ perspective creatively for storytelling and bending the rules convincingly. A bit intimidated and a lot excited for this course!