Hi all! I’m like that guy in the animation :), having studied copying directly from life and would like to crack open and develop better the ability of just inventing and creating from imagination. In this the main thing being able to draw characters/creatures from imagination in different poses and from wildly different angles and view points and distances, looking up/down at them and looking from up close and from afar. Also being able to add in environments as backgrounds, sketch in buildings/ cliffs/trees/ bigger vistas etc. At least to sketch in the layout, then to be developed after ability and need for the image. Overall in these things then aiming for artistically working perspective, something that feels nice, not necessarily absolutely ’correct’ perspective. And being able to better use reference for whatever and being able to take forms and characteristics of stuff and mold and change them according to the things in the image. Also important is developing the sense of form and space in perspective better in order to apply shading over things from imagination. And being able to integrate from imagination and from looking at physical maquettes/models with some set lighting and/or basic computer renderings of such stuff and scenery layouts. (Also I do absolutely not have anything against cool spaceships and vehicles either, and admire things like the Scott Robertson stuff, and being able to design, shade and finish up those kind of designs would be neat indeed. :) ) Collection of favorite drawings by perspective masters: Some selected examples from Kentaro Miuras Berserk, I think he was really good at using a dynamic ’camera’. Changing around both viewpoint and angle and distance , with high/low/level and close up/midrange/bigger overviews and different levels of zoomed in and out. Also very dynamic is Simon Bisley in his illustrations from the Bible so I added five examples of those.

Hi everyone! I work as a doctor and in the medical world we often talk about the "gold standard" of certain examinations to arrive at a definite diagnosis. Some examinations are better than others! My gold standard is using perspective to enhance all the aspects of the image deliberately to tell a story (NC Wyeth). I would also love to have the freedom of drafting on the go to do imaginative sketches (Kim Jung Gi), and not the least to achieve some kind of freedom and confidence to even do believable watercolors of really busy scenes (Joseph Zbukvic). Thank you Marshall for doing this course, I really look forward to what I will learn!

FINALLY! I have already dived into perspective 3-4 times and know Marshalls 90's videos by heart almost but will enroll in this, no questions asked. Because Marshall and my art is worth it.

Very meditative and fun. I love all the finishing touches, working on ambient occlusion, penumbra... the hardest part is knowing how to to the cast shadow shape properly in relation to the perspective.

Last year I finished Lesson 3 and then took a little break. It was nice revisiting DAB within the purpose of this course and completing DAB Lesson 4. After doing so, I really challenged myself to go out of my comfort zone. I used crosshatching (which I hated up until now) while applying what I learned so far from this course, and what I've learned about insects, to make a drawing of an insect purely from imagination, without using references. Doing this before moving on to the section on inventing shading is deliberate - I have promised myself to redraw this after completing the next section and see how it differs. I feel there is some realism lacking from my imaginary insect, it would make me happy to get some critique on what is missing - a background tone? Is the value organization too messy? Should I have done outlines in certain parts? I feel it's a lot harder organizing values with crosshatching, but I am determined on slowly getting there.

I will use drawabox more later

Draw a box is awesome. Love the community idea. Would love a Dorian / Shading community with you guys aswell ... just an idea :-) Cool exercise!

Crosshatching is still such an extreme challenge to me! I definitely can imagine the form, but quickly start to overthink because of neighboring planes. One of Dorian's tips has especially helped set me straight: hatch along the most dramatic change of direction in a plane! I was inspired and immediately did another Asaro head to test my newfound reasoning, unfortunately, I accidentally closed the tab and did not finish the ear and some larger plane. Grateful for feedback!

Did not find a non-complicated way of doing the complex joints at the elbow and knees, and anatomically, spheres are not a very truthful representation... decided to skip it. Suggestions?

Looking for some input on the perspective on the legs and arms, specifically for the limbs receding from the viewer and the pelvis. Since the pelvis is tilted in the opposite direction of the torso, it becomes a bit tricky to decide whether to find the perspective from the ASIS landmarks, or relative to the torso... usually, I imagine were I would be with my own eye level at the scene and go from there. Here, I see some other solutions. Grateful for an explanation!