Ohh so exciting! I get to be the first one to comment! 😂 Thank you for mentioning me Marshal and to the Proko team for choosing one of my visual wonderings as the cover...definitely will keep posting stuff with this melted pancake approach. I love the creative freedom it offers.

Ortho's have been fun. I've been finding it less daunting to wing my proportions for my first ortho view and then use guide lines from that to make sure my next ortho views are consistent, as opposed to measuring the object first. has anyone had any luck with actually measuring their objects and then using those accurate measurements to plot out their ortho views? also, I am determined to figure out how to accurate drawn my alarm clock. I WILL PREVAIL... EVENTUALLY!!!

These are the 6 views of my trusty French press

I started by writing my name which was nice and simple because I used the tools on my drawing app to help me draw lines that went directly to a vanishing point. I enjoyed my other more exploratory drawings a lot more though. It was fun trying to draw letters in different ways and extend them back to a vanishing point by eye. the effects ended up looking much cooler than I expected and definitely helped me get more comfortable with putting the back face of an object in perspective.

I got really into part two of the melted pancakes project. I ended up creating a dashed line brush so I could draw the back facing parts of my objects quicker. I also threw in some shading in the end to try and separate some of the forms.

Here are my melted pancakes! this was perhaps one of the most fun assignments to get into so far, and I think that may have been because of how easy it feels to just get started. I really enjoyed just layering on different shapes and extruding them. a lot of the time it really did feel like I was pretending to model things in blender.

I drew a few planes solo before watching this video, and finally enough, I've ended up getting to a stage where I sometimes feel like eyeballing the vanishing points is helping me get a nicer feeling drawing than when I try to accurately use my tools. Perhaps this is because I'm able to keep more parts of my plane in mind and able to tie everything in to a "big picture" rather than getting fixated on individual parts. Or maybe I've just gotten better at freehanding my straight lines 🤷‍♂️. Either way, so much fun has been had.

I drew some diggers! I struggled with some of my initial drawings but got much more comfortable as I drew more and more diggers. It became easier for me to see the big picture and simply shapes.

Hello! Will this course have critique videos for its assignments?

The BLOB approach! I enjoyed this! I think that because the blobs weren't very intimidating to draw I was able to get many more repetitions in and improve how I fit my boxes around them and how I was able to use my contour lines to show their shape. I focused mainly on drawing various boxes in the beginning and as I gained more confidence I started exploring more complex shapes. In particular I really enjoyed drawing more "wormy" looking blobs like the ones on the bottom of the 4th page. thinking about the convex curve pointing away the same direction the object points away was another really useful cue for me! towards the end I felt like everything was beginning to get a bit messy as I added convex and concave contours on my blob and then fit a box around it too. I used different coloured pencils to help me make the different objects read more clearly, but I don't think that helped much. Does anyone have any tips they would recommend? I know its slightly off topic from perspective, but I would like to know how I can layer more onto my page in a decipherable way so I can kind of comment and elaborate on my perspective drawings a bit more.