Love how this course is touching on HOW and WHEN perspective is used to tackle creative challenges by professionals. I've always seen perspective as this unfathomable and secretive thing, but here it is slowly being revealed. Love love loved the insight into industry practice and pipeline.

His whole vibe through his pieces, even the ones with heavy dropping lines, seems like it always carries a fun/lighthearted emotion. Really enjoyed his process even if I will never fully understand Maya and other 3d modelers.

how you stacked the two triangles in the isometric video explained! Woohoo! All becomes clear in time.

I'm very comforted by the comments below expressing having some challenges with this. So, as much as it's a little embarrassing I feel it's important to share for others as well that it took me 37 minutes and a headache to figure out how to use the triangles to create the generic isometric cube. Yeah... 37 minutes of trying to draw the default cube. It did eventually click, and after a break I returned and tried to draw some objects as optical illusions felt a little heavy in that moment. Flipping the perspective of the chair was quite difficult, and I did resort a bit to free handing some lines so it's pretty messy.

For those using DIGITAL during this course! I have a resource for you! Digital allows us to use hotkeys and line tools, but just like with the ruler in Marshall's example, the freehand is a LOT faster. I'm attaching a recreation of an exercise I picked up years back in school and still use. For practicing freehand lines in digital, you can rehearse the movement by connecting the dots in these columns. The left one is easier, with thick dots to connect, while the right column is a bit more precise. I know it's a simple and maybe goofy exercise, but it really helped me at throwing down straight lines with more ease. I'll have another of these later when we get into Ellipses....

A good thing I got paid this week.

Now I have a reason 😁 to visit, my most fav place on earth.. 🫠 art store..

I love the idea of splitting the works into sub-categories to study specific things from; I feel like this could be useful for any project!

Every video so far I walk away feeling like I've learned something, and it perplexes me because I am not always aware that the learning is happening until after the video ends. Marshall, your method of teaching delights the mind, and instead of feeling crushed and exhausted as I often am by what I can only describe as traditional teaching methods- I am always left full of more questions, curiosity, and intrigue. I haven't felt this way about learning in a long time. Loved this video! It's really left me thinking and pondering about my initial selection of art treasures, and prompting me to look at art with a new mindset of not just trying to identify any perspective but perspective that is useful to learn from. Upon reflection, I think my fear of backgrounds did lead me to initially pick examples of perspective applied to characters mostly, but I am feeling less daunted already and loving looking at the examples other have chosen. I was most fascinated this lesson by the notion of things 'flattening' as they get further away. I would have assumed they would become more warped, not less. But I can't not see it now.

watching this video I realised every other time I've tried to 'learn' perspective, I've been learning the 'tricks' as you called them with no understanding of how or why or when to use them. In that very sentence I understood why I've been so stuck, and why it's been an up hill battle that seems to go no where. I feel less like it's perspective that is the problem, but the way I was trying to learn. So ready for perspective to become an ally. Thank you again for creating this course. So excited for all that is to come. It looks like it's going to be even more in depth than I could have dreamed of.