I was surprised this assignment was so difficult for me as I did this all the time in my middle school years! My struggle came when I was trying to draw the letter further back. Once I started, line dyslexia kicked in, and I became frustrated. Intellectually, I understand why it needs to be there but I went more intuitively, to get it on the paper. I did a single letter with colored sides just to try to figure it out. Drawing 1-D from reference does not frustrate me as drawing from construction. I will be practicing more 1-D construction.

My air purifier machine.

I enjoyed Melted Pancakes, and have more done but they are far too messy to post. I like the way I'm learning to combine organic and geometric. Great warm up exercise for me!

My other Level 1 value studies.

Here is my Level 1 A value studies. I noticed the mood of the portrait changed with the change in value composition. I'll post Level 1 B here later. (It's been nearly a year since I posted but I have been following along. I am trying to overcome my messiness!)

I can see I need more practice keeping the proportions when I switch to drawing from imagination/memory.

Thank you, Peter Han for sharing your sketchbooks! I'm awestruck!

Wow, I need this exercise! Between keeping my eyes focused on where I'm pulling the line AND my wrist habitually curving, this was a challenge. I'll be using this more in my warm ups.

What an eye opener! In the paintings I chose I noticed diminution and convergence dominated. That said, Parrish had little convergence, which surprised me, instead the use of overlap dominated. Similarly, in Frazetta's painting there is more overlap than convergence. Moran used conversion most strongly in the background. I found little or zero use of foreshortening in these selected land and city scapes. Is this a general rule, the further away the less foreshortening? On the 1-5 DCFOA scale, (with my addition of zero), here are my rankings: Frank Frazetta "Atlantis" 5 3 1 4 2 Jeremy Mann "Morning in Yellow" 4 5 1 2 3 Laurence Stephen Lowry "Let the Battle Commence" 5 4 0 2 3 Maxfield Parrish "Morning Light" 4 2 1 5 3 Thomas Moran "Venetian Canal" 5 3 0 2 4

Brilliant AND funny! Thanks Marshall.