Being able to better see what goes into great pictures is always really inspiring, and gets me excited to learn more stuff to use myself! My motivation tank is full again.

I was happy to see atmospheric perspective get some time also, thank you for the extra explanation Marshall! Since this lesson came out I've been wanting more control over it in my drawing and painting. So I decided over Christmas to create an admittedly lengthy explanation of it for myself, to try and understand it a bit more concretely and make it more intentional in my artwork. I've shared this below in case it's helpful for anyone in any way (and in case anyone has any thoughts on it!): As an object moves away from a viewer, there is more atmosphere between the object and the viewer. As a result, the object's appearance is more affected by the atmosphere. The object's appearance: 1) Changes colour (including value). 2) Decreases in contrast. 3) Decreases in clarity. 1) The object's appearance changes colour. Assign a colour (and value) to the atmosphere. As the object moves away from the viewer, the object's colour (and value) moves on a path towards the colour (and value) of the atmosphere. The further away the object is, the further along this path the object's colour is. (Thinking of it this way allows you to try out different atmospheres rather than always using a light blue atmosphere that is common in outdoor scenes for example.) 2) The object's appearance decreases in contrast. If the object's colour is on a path towards the colour of the atmosphere, then the contrast between the colour of the object and that of the atmosphere will decrease. As the object moves away, colours on the object that have a higher contrast compared to the atmosphere will move more quickly than colours that are already similar to the colour of the atmosphere. Therefore we will also see a decrease in contrast on the object's appearance itself. 3) The object's appearance decreases in clarity. You could consider this as a result of the previous two points (especially when we group / simplify similar colours and values in a painting or drawing). But it can be helpful to consider it separately also. For example, changing the amount of detail to include in a line drawing as objects appear to recede into space.

Thanks for the deeper dive in atmospheric perspective, I was having a tough time identifying it in comic book art.

Thank you, Marshall.

Thanks for the all the critiques Marshall, it's awesome to see all the analysis being shared in the community! I had so much fun with this lesson, and have already found it really useful in my illustration process. Having the methods defined, and seeing them used in all these pieces, I now feel more comfortable exploring possible choices for a drawing and seeing what effect they have on a composition. I've also created this thumbnailing page as a demo for myself to refer back to. I now try and do at least one page like this before working on longer drawings.