Hey Marshall! Decided to do 3 objects I found around my house as practice for the assignment. This was real tough, but also really exciting! I feel like I was making myself uncomfortable but in the fun, learning way. This was done before watching the blob technique videos so I can get a more clear vision of what I am currently lacking when it comes to working with this. I also wanted to try to challenge myself and draw a simplified character in perspective with the head and body being in different angles, and that, alongside the character's ears, made it very hard to determine in more extreme angles. I'm pretty sure I wasn't able to get it right, but at least it's a current approximation of my current skills and provides a roadmap of what to work on. Something I've noticed is that I am lacking is proper technique and learning to properly apply concepts about perspective taught to me fully,.. I like to see it like working on a puzzle, where while the edges and outer shapes are put together, the inner shapes are still missing to really tie things together. Like the concepts of perspective are there, but that lack of a deeper knowledge is what is making feel like I'm rowing without a paddle at many times. Hopefully I can learn how to tie everything together in this course and that feeling can go away. That said, line systems do help me vaguely with learning how to get there, even if i am just being introduced to them now for the first time. I also realized that later on, I should have just winged some of the squares for the harder angles, instead of measuring where they converge. I feel like that would have helped with training my eye better. I might also have gone a bit overboard with the foreshortening, but that was mostly because I wanted to have clear converging points, and not have it fall off the paper (it wasn't successful in some cases). But again, I will try to train my eye in the future. Overall, fun exercise! Looking forward to more assignments and videos this year!

I've started with my webcam as a way to get the brain to work, I did need some attempts to pull it off, but actually it was really cool to do it, it was interesting and I'm happy with the results, the 2nd one, the pelvis, I thought that was a good chance to refresh bone anatomy and I'm happy with it, I might say it's not 100% accurate but hey I think it really gives the feeling of seeing a pelvis Rotating in space, and the third one was entirely organic, I tried to not be precious with structure and I think it looks good enough to be satisfied with this assignment!

This was definitely challenging! I am going to do this exercise again first mentally repositioning each object and then redrawing from observation to see where I need to improve. I also need to keep my lines lighter and take a little bit more time on each object.

Rating And Analysis Kenneth Anderson: (https://pin.it/1M692vOJr) Diminution: 2-3 (the ghost at the top gets progressively bigger than the characters as they move down the stairs) Convergence: 3 (there are some converging lines on the stairs and in the framing of the house as well as the checkered tiles and the railing) Foreshortening: 3 (the viewer is looking down at the scene at an interesting angle, distorting the characters and setting) Overlap: 3 (the characters are overlapping each other and they are overlapped by , or overlap the objects they are holding) Atmosphere: 1-2 (there is a little bit of fading in colour as you move into the background) Soyun Park: (https://www.behance.net/gallery/52184619/The-Nutcracker) Diminution: 4 (objects and pieces of furniture shrink significantly moving back into the picture) Convergence: 3 (a good amount of converging lines in this image like the steps, tabletops and shelves for example) Foreshortening: 3 (there are some foreshortened objects and some elements of furniture angled away in different directions from the viewer) Overlap: 5 (there is a huge amount of overlap in this image from the objects on the tables, the furniture, beams, steps, drapery etc.) Atmosphere: 2 (not much but there are some differences in the line weight in the foreground and background) Soyun Park: (https://www.behance.net/gallery/52184619/The-Nutcracker) Diminution: 4 (buildings and mountain peaks get smaller as they move back in the scene, characters especially get smaller) Convergence: 2 (there are converging lines on the buildings however some of the lines on the left buildings aren’t really parallel but seem to curve. Foreshortening: 1-2 (there are a few objects like the shop flags and a few elements on the buildings) Overlap: 3-4 (the left buildings, mountains, and people all overlap quite a bit. Atmosphere: 3 (as you move back into the scene the colours are more faded and objects almost start to “blend” together a little bit) Sheryl Yap: (https://www.behance.net/gallery/133931813/Nimbos-Hickory-Dock-%28Complete-art%29) Diminution: 3 (there are a lot of clocks on the wall that get smaller as they move further into the scene. The difference in size to the main character and the two characters in the back is also significant) Convergence: 3 or 4 (a lot of the floor planks converge as well as the angles of the furniture on the right wall) Foreshortening: 3 or 4 (again the objects on the right wall are all angled) Overlap: 2-3 (there is some overlap of the furniture and characters) Atmosphere: 2 or 3 (the scene loses some vibrancy as it moves further away. The top of the canvas to the right side have a sort of vignette effect) KatiStarSoul Art: (https://pin.it/69jlFeU2f) Diminution: 4 (the objects in the front, the characters and buildings, are all staggered in size and get smaller the further they go in the image) Convergence: 3-4 (there are a lot of converging lines in the buildings, structures and the chains) Foreshortening: 3 or 4 (there are a lot of objects turning away from the viewer in some of the circular structures, the buildings and the chains. The buildings closest to the viewer are very angled) Overlap: 4 (there is quite a bit of overlap in the buildings, structures, floating objects, chains and characters Atmosphere: 4 (the background gets significantly faded) Mengxuan Li: (https://pin.it/2bPqX3q1m) Diminution: 4 (there is a lot of this effect in the image with the characters, objects and buildings. The cat in the foreground is a lot bigger than the buildings in the background. Convergence: 2 (I don’t think there’s a lot of convergence in this image. There is some in the foreground and a bit in the mid-ground but the background is densely packed with a variety of edges in different directions making it hard to see many converging lines) Foreshortening: 2 (there is a bit of foreshortening in the storefronts in the foreground and midground. There is also some foreshortening in the background but it’s a little harder to tell as the edges get less distinct. Overlap: 4 (highly used, the buildings and objects start to jumble together in the mid and background) Atmosphere: 3 or 4 (the colours get significantly less vibrant and objects start to lose clarity. JaeCheol Park: (https://pin.it/4UrntUiA9) Diminution: 3 (the buildings and balconies get progressively smaller moving back) Convergence: 5 (this image is essentially made up entirely of converging lines) Foreshortening: 3 (the building fronts are all angled towards the vanishing points) Overlap: 5 (an endless amount of building fronts and balconies overlap each other) Atmosphere: 4 (the furthest part of the image loses a lot of value. Especially in the top and bottom centre of the image in-between the buildings. The line weight on the buildings is decreased moving up vertically, however the lines jumble together in the back centre of the image making the value darker than the buildings just noted) Armand Serrano: (https://pin.it/5vrCVTBt2) Diminution: 3 or 4 (there are some bigger objects in the foreground, such as the hooks, ropes and other objects that are bigger than some of the elements and characters in the mid and background) Convergence: 3 (there is some convergence in the buildings, balconies, framing, windows and on the docks. Foreshortening: (some foreshortening on the dock, the boat, in some of the circular elements, as well as some of the curved structures and architectural details) Overlap: 3 or 4 (there are a lot of elements overlapping in this image such as the hooks, ropes, characters, architectural details and other objects) Atmosphere: 2 (the image slightly fades up the right side, and down the waterway to the left affecting the buildings and characters)

First page is wrong as I couldn't understand simple instructions! 2nd page is better...

Yikes… 😅 I found the 15 to 75 angles the most awkward to do, ironically in a few of the circles those angles look the neatest. It was a relaxing exercise! I experimented with pushing and pulling, fast and loose and slow and controlled. When I do this exercise again I’m going to try and be more light with the pencil and experiment with having the paper on a flat surface instead of an easel. I’m definitely going to implement this into my routine!! Looking forward to seeing improvement.

I can’t wait! This course is going to be fantastic!

Hey! Even though this is an old post hopefully I can still join? I’m currently learning the fundamentals and hope to become a children’s book illustrator!

I’d love to join

Here's my imaginative bonus assignment, a Bio-Mashup of a Red Panda, Labrador Retriever and Zebra. I know the assignment only asked for a drawing, but I wanted to see how it would look in color so I went ahead and finished it in color, using Clip Studio Paint.