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.

This was a lot harder than I expected. I felt like I did okay when the objects stayed in the same perspective as the walls of the room, but really struggled placing objects with their own perspective in a convincing way. Not sure if some of my struggle was distortion in the room photos I used. Definitely a good exercise that I’ll have to keep in the rotation.

The first is my graphite one with 2h, 2b, 5b, and 8b. Next was with tombow water based markers. I also included some practice. I was pretty happy with the graphite, but if anyone has any advice for getting smoother tones with the markers, I’d love to hear it. I felt like the lighter tones came out too streaky.