Love how this course is touching on HOW and WHEN perspective is used to tackle creative challenges by professionals. I've always seen perspective as this unfathomable and secretive thing, but here it is slowly being revealed. Love love loved the insight into industry practice and pipeline.

Here is my Week 1 submission. There's room for lots of improvement, I'll redo this again in the future. Could I please ask for help with my gesture drawings overall? I've watched all the linked videos in the description, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong or how to improve... (in particular my 10 min drawings 1), 5), 7) and 10)). Normally, I start with the head, then the spine, and then everything else kinda flops after that... Any advice would be really helpful, thank you :)

Question: Are these angles used in linear perspective as well as in isometric perspective?

To get used to the tools, I first started with a cube, and then moved on to the optical illusions. I'm also glad to have listened to Marshall's advice about roughing it out first. For example, the bottom optical illusion took some tries. As an interesting point, I found that bottom optical illusion only looks correct at a certain angle, rather than looking directly at the page. And I think there is some interesting perspective in this because of the middle-diagonal white band going from thin to wider as it goes upwards. Overall, this exercise practises my brain to think in 3D space. I gave Sandro's Impossible Chessboard a go and took note of the twists on the left and right. While drawing it, I realised that where Sandro has placed the cheese pieces is also important. For example, the Rook on the right kinda "covers up" the chessboard as it approaches the twist. As another example, I feel that the Knight in the middle is also strategically placed there. Would anyone know why? Or is it more for composition purposes and it looks nice in the middle? P.S Please forgive the mess, and bear with me drawing cylinders in perspective. Those cylinders definitely need some work, and looking forward to a future lesson about them.

I've always wondered what a T-square is used for! Very useful indeed :D

Wow, these drawings are terrific inspirations! Completely blown away!

Ah ok, so the key is to look for big simple things; I will do my best to do that in the upcoming lessons. I also have a feeling that drawing ovals in perspective is going to be important very soon haha :)

Waterfall rapids were among the last things I'd expected to see being studied here and my mind was blown! Now I can see so clearly perspective principles at play. So then I decided to look deeper and fell into a rabbit hole. Here's a few more things where perspective can be found :D 1. ☁ Clouds are forms and their under planes are receding. They get thinner and thinner as they approach the horizon. 2. 🍖 This meat is just a simple box! We can clearly see the different planes and how light interacts with them. 3. 🌻 A sunflower field where flowers are receding. 4. 🧼 Bubbles! Let us be reminded that everything in space has different sizes so how they look in perspective is completely individual, they simply exist in the same scene following the same rules. 5. 🐤 And bonus, a cute budgie birb. We can see its contour lines already there informing us of its rounded form! Basically, EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE that exists has perspective.

When the lesson was talking about the different plains, I was thinking Mr Hiroshi Yoshida also had a great visual understanding of the river, riverbed and the rocks that surround or stick out of it. More importantly, he understood how the water interacts with the riverbed and rocks. Like that top plain is generally flat-ish because of the riverbed, but then as it approaches the waterfall, it starts to curve and forms the sloping front plain. As a tiny detail, even before the edge of the waterfall, the water is already starting to curve a little bit. Also, I initially didn't notice that interior cylinder portion shape, so it was a nice discovery. I liked how water lines were used as cross contours with them crowding together on the inside of the cylinder and spread out as they faced us - I think that makes it convincing. Overall, this has opened my eyes to studying the shape of water and how it interacts with its surroundings. And that cross contours can be found/used when drawing water. Great lesson Marshall!

Just finished watching the lesson, I enjoyed it and learnt some history. Thanks Marshall! As an interesting side comment, the front/side/top views of the plane at 2:24 remind me of the Orthographic views in engineering drawings. It's fascinating to see a bit of it in the art world too.