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.

Hi everyone, I'm a beginner to drawing, and I'm very much looking forward to this course. I sometimes do pencil sketches in my sketchbook of mostly anime or other animated shows, and I find there is such an enjoyment to it! However, I feel that I'm just doing the one-off sketch rather than focusing on learning theories and/or techniques. So I hope that this course can get me going on some good drawing habits, while learning how to draw in perspective. Perspective questions/struggles: - I haven't had much practice with perspective (hence why I joined this course!), but I know that I struggle a lot with vanishing points being outside the canvas/paper. I find it hard to imagine where the vanishing point actually is because I can't really see it visually, and thus it is hard to draw in the lines that meet the vanishing point. - I also like to draw dynamic character poses, but struggle with body parts that are pointing at the camera (or like those "in your face" kind of poses). I always seem to draw them too short/long/fat/thin than what it should actually be. Are there helpful guidelines for drawing something that is extremely foreshorten? Masters: - As an example of "in your face" kind of poses: Image 1) - by Takao Aoki - I would also like to be able to draw buildings/objects in perspective. So here is some background artists that I'm inspired by: --- Image 2) - Kazuo Oga --- Image 3) - Hergé (Georges Remi) - I also admire Makoto Shinkai's (animation director) movies. The animation, music and the movie as a whole draws the audience into the characters emotions and the stories atmosphere, I love that! (Image 4) Course outcomes: - I'm currently focusing on getting the correct shapes in my drawings with reference, especially with the correct perspective. - I also aim to build drawing habits so that constant progress is made (regardless of whether there is lots or little progress!) - The next level for me would be to: --- Take a reference and draw it from another perspective/angle/ --- Take a character reference and draw it from a different pose with the correct anatomy --- Draw more dynamic characters --- Add colour according to the perspective Can't wait to begin and start learning loads! :)

After watching the critiques, I realize that I did the previous 6 exercises incorrectly. Should I go back and do them over or move on?