I printed a triangular graph pattern but the blue was way too dark. Still, I used tracing paper over it and got myself in over my head! LOL I'll just try again. It's certainly reusable. ;)

"I WILL GET YOU." "HAHAHAHAHAH"

Wonderful video, Phil and Marshall! It's great to see and hear from the artist himself, so I'm getting a lot from these different artists and how they even begin. By imagination? I'm there. LOL!

I'm gonna share progress, I just never have time to make it! No matter what crud I put on the paper, I'll show it soon. Until then, I should be able to figure out the triangles! And...hee hee! That joke. LOL, I can't help but laugh at it. Awesome getting a Bible verse, I like that one! XD

I thought I'd show the couple tries I did with isometric illusion. I realize that I don't get it. LOL I can't figure out how to make the illusion, even if I made a bit of it. I'm not sure where my mindset needs to be. The first picture I used just the protractor and the triangles with a t-ruler. So I didn't mind that way, but I need a bigger place to do this kind of practice. My kitchen table is also a bit small. Heh. The second picture I printed an isometric grid from Adobe and placed it beneath some tracing paper, so I could maybe get a handle on what I'm doing. I think it didn't help the way I'd hoped. I'm better off just using the rulers and not looking at that grid.

Oh, boy...I gotta see what tools I still have. LOL I used mechanical pencils before, but I'm so heavy-handed that they break...all the pencil. :( Once the roads are good again, I'll try and get a 0.7. I don't think I have that. I MIGHT have triangles, even one.

This was a great lesson, great understanding! I tend to think little about which artists to look for (even though I know of few who do awesome perspective). It's really helpful to know this info!

Thumbnails...now that's my speed right now! I'm looking forward to the rest, disappointed that I missed out on joining folks earlier than this. But I'm happy that I can do it on my schedule. :)

Great, I remembered that I joined this course and I'm glad I came back again! I'll be able to really get into the classes soon. I'm doing a bunch of 3D-related stuff, but I do miss drawing. I love that 600-year perspective tale, Marshall! Can't wait to watch and learn from the rest, but that part is so coo. :D

I never thought about WHO I liked and who is a perspective master, but I sometimes feel drawn to certain images because I feel like I'm in the scene. Here are a few artists: For characters, Glen Keane is just awesome with his use of perspective. The characters ARE their world with the movements and foreshortening and the amount of perspective used. Really...animated! I like Feng Zhu's expansive environments, and I'm awestruck by how he makes concepts, including "photo-bashing" and working with the perspective of the world in his pieces. I love the bright and saturated worlds that Jonathan Ball creates, where atmospheric perspective really shows the depth in his 3D work. I find many older paintings and such are not interesting to me. I want to try more semi-realistic, "whimsical", sometimes drastic or kind of drastic and vast environments, but also scenes with characters as the main subjects in many cases. I cannot figure out foreshortening, the turning of cylindrical objects with other objects on them, like spiked collars or patterns on pillars. If I can understand that, grasp it with my crummy understanding and odd depth-perception, that'll be a miracle and pleasant surprise! As for characters, if they're kneeling or just standing, close up or kind of close, how do I know how strong the perspective should be? I'd like to exaggerate some, but not TOO much. Another thing, and I LOVE this, is the atmospheric perspective. I think I'm good at that. It makes the most sense to me and I want to incorporate it more in my sketches, even.