I love your idea to make a splash page for this course and to redraw it at the end! That's awesome. Great first assignment 👍 Good luck with the rest of the course. The greyscale filter is fine as long at it's not changing the values. I'm wondering if it's lightening the darker values? If not, you could work on increasing your value range by making those darker values a bit darker, closer to black for your darkest value. Overall awesome work!

You don't need to do 30 more for it to count as 50. But if you feel like you should, listen to that! The issue is not the exact number, the issue is to make sure you have this way of thinking (upview=downlines; downview=uplines) into your instincts so you'll hardly have to think about it anymore, you'll just know where to send the lines. 50 is a safe enough number, IF you are doing them with full concentration. 30, 50, or 100... Draw the ups and downs as if you'll never get another chance to again!

Good work Carlos, and in answer to your question, it's almost always best to go for big things first. So yes, room first, furniture later, but more generally: earth and sky first (via horizon), then room, then furniture.

Carlos, That's a lot of questions, but I'll do my best here to help get you on your confident way! Photos or life, either is fine. Life is harder, but probably better for you if you're up to the challenge of "binocular vision" and distractions and a changing environment. Photos are easier because they stay fixed and are already flat, so starting with photos is good for any student who finds this scary. Working from other artists is fine too, but the problem is that artists take liberties, and you may find that their views don't quite conform to the world the way romance stories don't quite conform to romance. If you want to work from the examples in the video, why not? They were from students working to "tell the truth" of their rooms, and may get you started with their simple approaches. The increase in speed is to start you slowly enough not to freak out, but when you are comfortable, speeding it up to increase your focus on what's important: eye level. I think it's even a good idea to say out loud the "up goes down" and "down goes up" mantras because that is the purpose of this lesson — to drive in that awareness. Remember, this is not about slick drawing, it's about noticing, now and forever, what's above and below you, and drawing it with ease. Norling's books are good. Use them. Use any books that help. They may add things I have not taught you. But the job here is to draw room after room after room, learning to aim up, down, and away.

These look awesome to me! The ellipses are angled the right way and the simplified forms are designed nicely. Only thing I might do is make the wheel bigger. The 4 wheels are the most important element. Then the seat, then the windshield area, then the smaller details. Work big to small and make your drawing as epic as you can.