I struggled with figuring out how much to squash the organic shapes as I got closer to the horizon line so I tried doing this exercise with straight lines and 2 vanishing points. I really enjoyed the process. In trying to cover the page, I found that sometimes I was outside the sphere where my vanishing points give a realistic result, but it gave me a better sense of how much the objects squashed. I hope in a future lesson Marshall will explain why things look wonky around the edges but I will wait patiently for that and enjoy the process in the meantime.

at first I was not so sure but then I wasn't sure at all. however this is a really fun warming up and I really enjoy them. hope this is correct.

Great exercise. Will have to do lot more of these to get my head around how the horizon line changes perspective. Here are my three submission last of them is done digitally.

This is what I have done so far but I want to spend more time on these in the future. Thank you Phil for this great exercise!

Actually found it quite difficult, it got better with speed. i know it contains lot of mistakes, still wanted to share. Plan to spend more time doing it

I've had some project deadlines recently, so I'm just now getting to the latest batch of assignments. I'm still working through this exercise, but here's what I have so far! When I first started trying this approach, my drawings felt a bit stiff. Something wasn't quite clicking. So I thought I'd go back and restart by trying something simpler, to try and become more comfortable with the tools for this task. I tried to build individual forms, and try some variations including: • Height. • Rotation. • Curving. • Tapering. • Crossing the horizon line. • Twisting. • Two forms bumping / interlocking. • Connecting two planes of different shapes. I like to sketch in quite a scribbling manner, with slower phases also to try and carve out forms or details. I also tend to build in layers as I move things around and close in on final decisions. (My kneaded eraser is seeing some work lately!) To move onto a compositional stage of this exercise, I've started to try and fold this type of form building into this sketching process, in particular the slower phases. Despite a rough start, I'm really enjoying this exercise, there's a lot to explore when playing with combinations. I'm looking forward to cleaning up some sketches before moving to the second part of the assignment. Thank you Philip for sharing this appraoch!

I wish I could've done more, but I had different priorities so going thorugh proko content went on the wayside. I still made some time to do these 30 minutes for a few days hopefully in time for the deadline.

Here are my attempts at the exercises. I'm happy to get some feedback on these.

Very enjoyable assignment!

I got carried away. I think this is the most fun I had with an exercise ever. The melted pancake approach really invites me to be whimsical and exploratory with composition and space design. I am looking forward to my third attempt. I drafted the first design inside Krita, then moved to Photoshop to clean up the lines. Then of course played with colors because...why not?

Drawing on the ceiling was a challenge for me because I didn't want to flip the paper around to draw it. I also kept confusing my eyes every time I tried dividing the pancakes up.

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Here's two more, I think the second one turn out the best, but I'm still not satisfy with the line quality and the shapes. But in terms of perspective what needs to be improve?

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.

💩 was hard, but fun. I didn’t understand how to place these in perspective. Like the roll of quarters, except on the exercise. Each one took me abt 30 min. 8.5x11 paper and 2HB pencil

I had a couple of goes traditionally but it became a big mess so I decided to use Procreate. Here was my first and second attempts at doing it digitally and also trying to turn pancakes into rocks. My first one didn’t come out at all rocky and looks so messy and confused and I have no idea where the colours/tones were going. I rewatched the video and copied his toning pattern in blue for the second one, and i think it came out a lot clearer and nicer to look at… they also look more rocky, although I could have spent another hour on it! Bring on 10,000 more rocks, and I’ll get there…

I found this quite fun, although I clearly need some practice. Making the shapes is not too difficult, although figuring out how much of the top to show, and being consistent is something I think I need to pay attention to. Also making the page look interesting is more challenging. I guess that gets into the composition side of things.

I’m having a lot of fun with this assignment. Below is a series of progress photos from one of the pancake drawings I’ve done. This has really helped me to figure out how to take a basic shape (in estimated perspective) and start to figure out how to carve and shape the pancakes into more complex shapes. I had some issues trying to figure out how to carve out crevices but then I just thought of them a cylindrical cutout. Still a lot to improve on, so constructive criticism is welcomed. I kept some of the basic pancake shapes and guidelines in the final drawing and I used pencil hardness to illustrate foreground, midground, and background. Line weight played a minor role in that, but could certainly play a bigger role in differentiating the layers.