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.

I can't explain how excited I am for this course. No one has ever made the process of learning perspective feel so exciting, or achievable- until Marshal. Some problems I want to solve, is for a start, feeling like I understand what I'm drawing rather than copying or recreating what I have committed to memory. I want to be able to create form from the ground up and wield it like a very shiny sword in my battles against visual storytelling. I'm tired of fighting with a stick. I want to add depth to my character illustrations and I want to not feel so immobilized by fear when it comes to tackling backgrounds. I want to be able to draw characters in different angles and retain the form consistently most of all. Artists I look up to that utilise perspective: - Cutiicosmo - Geoffroy Thoorens - Matt Rhodes - Wendell Dalit - Shiyoon Kim