I really want to learn to use perspective to amp up the drama and storytelling of the images I draw and paint. I love art where wide angles, deep shots or crazy distorted perspective can turn the volume up past eleven. I also love art that creates the feeling of epic scale and importance and have noticed that perspective can be used as a compositional tool to enhance these effects. I’m especially interested in learning how to incorporate and ground figures and props within scenes in a way that feels natural to enhance the stories and themes within my future artwork.

First pass on these before watching demo. I think I should probably give it another go and strive for cleaner versions.

Round 2 of this, watched the demo of the snail before trying this out again. I used a red colored pencil to block out rough guidelines to do the line work within, although in some spots, (the skull mainly) I think I got a little carried away with the red pencil phase and found myself lingering on details. For the snail, boots and camel, I really was able to focus on just the CSI lines while operating within the blocked outlines, the skull felt less successful to me, particularly in the neck region where I started getting overwhelmed with all the little parts and couldn't figure out how to simplify. Overall, I still think I need to be planning my lines better to get more confident executions of lines vs. getting into re-drawing over them to tune and shape them.

I think I need to try again, felt like I wasn't as confident with lines as I should be for assignment. These are all pre-demo, I'm guessing I probably should've simplified more than I did. The camel was too much fun though.