I love the sense of scale conveyed by "sandwiching" familiar elements with surrealist or fantastic things, like sci-fi concept art. Here are some examples by Jesse van Dijk (Destiny 2) and Simon Stålenhag (Tales from the Loop). I also really like the designs of Goya, even though I'm not a fan of his drawings (faces, bodies, etc), his design and use of light makes it one of my favorite painters. I'm also interested in photography, so understanding lens focal length and its relationship with composition sounds really interesting. As for the big picture goals: * Be able to play with scale in believable spaces * Being able to think about focal length in my compositions more naturally. Both in drawing and photography

Here are images from some of my favorite artists as part of assignment 1. It's clear I'd like to draw from imagination. Then to take those images and show them however I'd like. Manipulate them. I just got the course and I'm looking forward to this very much. I'm a "late" in life learner and though the elasticity of my neural network related to learning is, well no longer elastic as it once was, I have been told I'm wiser and that may help an old dog learn old tricks.