Cool, works, what a joy. Does the lowest point of the (here) rectangle need to touch the picture plane? I would say "no", but I am not sure. @Michael Longhurst: you did the anvil, WOW !!!! Great work! Hopefully I will dare to do so within the next days.

Fascinating process. I started with a 4 sided shape, but realized it didn’t work right because the sides weren’t parallel, ie wouldn’t go to the same vanishing points. Then I tried an airplane shape. That worked pretty well, but was really small. Also the back corner wasn’t quite lined up, I think due to line thickness and imperfect measurements. Next I moved on to anvils. I also started using multiple pages to attempt bigger drawings. My first one, I forgot to move the horizon line, so by default used the top of the page as the horizon line. I had a lot of distortion, I think due to being far enough below the horizon that the anvil was outside of the 60 degree cone of vision. On my 2nd anvil, I placed it on the horizon line. It came out pretty well. My biggest question is whether or not this is the right approach to scale up the final drawing. It seems to take a lot of paper space and gets a little difficult to work with, although maybe I’m just not used working bigger than sketchbook size.

Observations: Very fun and stressful. I have no sense of time. I don’t know how others are making something coherent in 5s (very impressed). I’d like to say perspective on the car went out the window at 2 minutes, but that would ignore the issue with the 4m one. I think I developed more strategies as I went along. Thanks for the great challenge!

Here’s my notan studies. It was interesting seeing how I liked some as 2 value better and others as 3 value. Once I got started drawing my still life photos I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the images, so took some liberties with the values, most notably darkening the shadows and removing background distractions. Trying to design better compositions than I achieved through the photos.

I have only done 10 or so of these so far. I love looking through the student work here but I see some of you using 1 point perspective lines for this. How? The drawings look great but when I look around me I just can't 'see' that. Any pointers? Do I just choose a point and wing it??

This was super helpful. I’ve always struggled with feet and now I feel like I have a much better way to approach them.

Here’s my landmark drawings. I wasn’t really sure how detailed to get before watching the first demo. Then tried to do a few between each demo. I think the Proco timer gods had it in for me because they gave me a lot of odd angles and foreshortening, but I suppose that’s good practice.

Animal structures newest to oldest. The three newest were after the critique. I felt like I started to get it more when I studied one animal, horses, then lizards.

Here are my anvils. The first three were drawn along with the videos (with a certain amount of pausing…). The last was a redraw without the video. I did the above view on one of the grids from a few assignments ago, but the perspective was really rough. On the eye level anvil I did the vanishing points of the page. I liked the outcome the best, but it did make it harder to keep the lines accurate. On my draw along with the below view, I had vanishing points on the edge of the page, which I think caused more distortion than I was expecting. I definitely messed up when I eyeballed the square in the middle early on, which I think really threw off the base and the horn. So I redrew it with A LOT more measurement early on. I was a lot happier with the outcome, although the curves of the horn didn’t come out as well as I wanted. Great challenge.

2ish minute drawings with the timer, sometimes paused if I needed a little more time. The gesture was a useful approach.