Here are a couple of attempts at level 1 and level 2. Some notes for myself: - draw bigger so I can engage my whole arm as much as possible and not be forced to construct tiny ellipses (also helps keep things clean); - focus on the accurate construction of the boxes in perspective (otherwise even correctly constructed ellipses will look out of place); - stop rushing. Any additional critique is highly appreciated. Thank you!

Thanks for the demo! Seeing Stan do these is always a good reminder of how much more I need to practice. :D With that in mind, here's a new hand with another attempt at level 2.

Here are a couple of attempts at level 2. This was really tough and it showed me that a lot more practice is needed in this area.

Hi there! Thanks for the demo! It’s really informative and cleared up a lot of the questions I had after my first attempt at the exercise. I am, however, a bit confused about a couple of boxes from hands 2 and 3. I marked them in the attached images. I understand that the way it’s drawn is not necessarily wrong since we could have more of a trapezoid box that would look like that in perspective. However, I thought that in this case we should draw boxes that had only 90 degree angles. With that in mind, even though it would look a bit strange when compared to the reference images, shouldn’t the marked lines from those boxes converge the other way? Even if only slightly? I’m asking because this is what caused me the most trouble and frustration in my initial attempt. Seeing that the form of the finger “converges” towards the viewer but having to draw a box that has to converge in the opposite way.

This was quite the shock, jumping from Steve to this. Here's my attempt at level 1, I gave it my best shot.

Steve with a cap and the usual three-point perspective boxes.

Steve with a cap.

Hello and thank you for the demo @Stan Prokopenko, very informative! At around 30:10 you mentioned something about getting better at completing ones drawings. Will the last part or the course – shading – have more of that in mind? Building on what we’ve learned so far and starting to get the drawings towards a more finished state? I’m asking because I’ve found myself many times in the situation where the initial block-in phase turned out decent but I didn’t really know where to go from there. I think that some guidance regarding this idea of “taking a drawing to a finished state” would be very useful in this course. Thanks!

This was one of the most challenging exercises so far. I’ve attached some of the results. Overall it became clear that I need to dedicate a lot more time to each attempt if I also want to get the proportions right – 45 min to 1 hour at least for each (I did not spent that much on these). This exercise feels like the next step to the “Measure Proportions” project, so I’ll definitely include it in my routine. Time to move on to the level 2 demo and see what I can learn from there.

This is for the level 1 assignment.