I always thought these type of background landscape drawings were so difficult to do. I wouldn't even know were to start when looking at reference. But the pancake method makes this a WHOLE lot less taunting. I might do another one with the horizon line lower like @Pixel's first image. His submissions are pretty cool

I found this very hard, but after a few failed attempts, I managed to do this. I don't understand how mechanical hinges and joints work, how to connect things in a way that makes sense and I don't know how to detail this stuff further (apart from the details I stole from Peter Han) But I will try to do these from time to time throughout the year, because I want to get better at drawing mechanical stuff.

Adding cracks and details was a lot of fun. I still need to work on getting the right ratios of complexity, but it's definitely going somewhere. It was really helpful to have the pancakes as a base, because drawing through the forms allows for thinking much more about how and where forms connect to each other. I just realized while uploading that I made the foregrounds a bit too dark in some of these, so the lines get swallowed, I hope it's still readable regardless. I might need to be a bit more brave and get a little more crazy with the amount of shapes I'm adding or subtracting from the forms. The next step would be adding some different types of organic forms I think. Like plant or animal life. If I manage to get around to it, I'll update these.

I needed some colour in my life while studying :D I also noticed that the letters start to get more distorted the farther away you get from the vanishing point

I had a lot of fun with the pancakes, I might keep doing more of these :D The first one took roughly an hour to figure out and get used to the shapes, 30 minutes seem to be the sweet spot for me when it comes to working on these. After that point I can start extruding to make the forms more rock like and complex. I want to work on getting more interesting shapes, because I noticed that I tend to default to using the same basic forms. So that's something I'll keep in mind for the next few studies. Thanks a lot, Marshall and Philip. The pancakes made studying perspective a lot less daunting for me.

I did try the Chinchillas first, because I knew I'd fail and thus motivate myself to try again with a much simpler form. So task failed successfully the first time around. The wine bottles turned out good. I did not attempt to make them cylindrical though. I think that would be the next step. Some questions I'll keep in mind for the next few lessons are: How do linesystems work? How do I keep proportions accurate? (I think the answer lies in understanding linesystems) This was surprisingly more difficult than I thought it would be, but also fun, which I didn't expect.