Thanks for the all the critiques Marshall, it's awesome to see all the analysis being shared in the community! I had so much fun with this lesson, and have already found it really useful in my illustration process. Having the methods defined, and seeing them used in all these pieces, I now feel more comfortable exploring possible choices for a drawing and seeing what effect they have on a composition. I've also created this thumbnailing page as a demo for myself to refer back to. I now try and do at least one page like this before working on longer drawings.

I know we’re getting to this, but since the line systems already have been mentioned in Assignment - 5 Tricks to Make Your Drawings Look 3D Uo/down - left/right and forward/back.. Sometimes I get confused on whats depth (forward/back) and whats left/right..?

Happy new year, Marshall! Quick question about this, do we need to think about the vanishing points when doing this assignment? Also, when is this assignment due

Good evening Marshall and dear peers! I wanted to share kind of a vulnerable view, so maybe others can share how to overcome it. I had a lot of resistance with this assignment, as well as the previous one of creating a personal library of authors/masters we admire. I personally get discouraged and side tracked by looking at others work. I did a good amount of copies back at Art Academy, and I realized that the satisfaction of emulating somebody’s trick or style was a very short lived ego satisfaction. I became really good at copying a look, but the essence of interpreting and valuing based on my own tastes and beauty standards, didn’t develop. My reaction was to not look at the work of others trying to steal, but to struggle myself trying to decipher my own values. Even today, when I look at these pieces of art, I feel my heart sinks because I am still far away from reaching those levels. I do enjoy working on assignments that test my thinking/sensibility skills because those align with the idea of growing my own library of visuals. Does anyone can offer a perspective shift to provoke a change of heart? Thank you in advance to all of you for your honest, personal responses.