Haha were those animations just an excuse to set stan on fire? Was that stan?

You explain everything so well Marshall, that I feel like I understood it right away. I was expecting to struggle a lot more then I did after all your warnings so was surprised to find out that it made immediate sense when I sat down to do it myself.

ah, I did much better than I expected :) Tried to do a bit of a curved perspective with the top one. Though I don't think it 100% worked, it was a good time none the less

I haven't been sharing my drawings since i feel behind a little bit and was thinking it didn't matter because I always miss the crit deadlines but now i think that's very silly.... I think I was just intimidated but how skilled everyone is! I was kind of shocked how easily this came to me. Even though I've studied perspective before, I still always struggle with foreshortening and get very confused? overwhelmed by all the lines that grids cause. It felt really good to not have that happen this time. Drawing the orthos really helped with understanding the forms and made it much easier to visualize the parts later. I am still struggling a bit with extreme foreshortening and overlapping shapes, I think, but i'll keep practicing :) Does anyone have any tips? For this class, I adopted a small gecko toy I got in a gatcha machine in Japan. It articulates really well and, I suppose, can add a level of difficulty for it but the spots where the parts connect also provide nice visual reference points. I was originally practicing from a stuffed toy but I think I had chosen something that was too safe; it wasn't particularly challenging so I don't think I was taking full advantage of the lessons... I'm glad I chose this toy even though, at first, I was afraid it would be too difficult for me to draw.

Hi, can i make a suggestion? I fell a little behind and I’m going through videos from top to bottom but I know they’re not actually listed in order because of the category organization you use….I was looking for post dates or something to try to figure out what order to actually watch the videos in but they don’t have that either… could you guys add something, anything that indicates the proper order you intended us to watch the videos in? I’m going to keep going down the list, top to bottom, since that’s all I can do until I catch up, but it does make things more difficult/confusing. I know there’s probably a lesson I should have seen before this one somewhere. Feels like I’m randomly jumping around topics really. I think it’s going to become an even bigger issue the more advanced the class gets…

If anyone need Graph Paper for Clip Studio Paint, I've found some: Rectangle: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1864890 Triangle: https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1729628 While doing these, I found that it's still very hard to do straight lines on digital pen tablet-,- How do people get their hand muscles to work as accurately as doing it manually on paper?

I hadn't done these in a long while so I have to admit I was surprised how instinctive it still felt. What I did forget was that fountain pen nibs eat at the paper when you're going over a line that many times that fast. Oops. I just don't like how dry microns/technical pens feel compared to wet ink so I avoid them....I think you can see where I realized though and started to hesitate so I'll have to work on that. Anyway, I generally struggle with proportions so hearing Peter talk about how training spacing with these exercises can help, really resonated with me. I'll definitely continue to keep that in mind going forward. Also did the angles with the rulers thing on this page. This blew my mind for some reason and made me feel like I was robbed in HS geometry because I don't remember ever being taught how to use triangle rulers in this way.

Since I've never done these before, so they took me a longer than I expected. I found them to be really fun puzzles though. I usually get impatient with drawing grids but some part of my brain wanted to make these perfectly neat and balanced. I found that drawing even grids really helped a lot with the spacing and was worth the extra effort. I definitely intend to do more of these but I noticed more videos came out so I figured I'd post what I have before I fall too far behind.

Question, is there a posting schedule for this course? I keep forgetting to check so I kinda just want a rough time to know when to come see if there's new videos.... Weekly? Every two weeks? Just wanna make sure I don't end up forgetting all about it....

I would have never looked at a piece like this, thats more nature based, and stopped to think this much about the use of perspective and now I probably wouldn't be able to look at any piece without considering its perspective, even if its for a fraction of the time I look at it. That's a valuable lesson on its own, I suppose.