Kendo sword close to viewer. Kept readjusting the proportions until it looked right.

I did a few different freehand animal drawings. On the dog, after drawing the top pose from the picture, I reimagined the pose a bit more head on for the closer views. Then for a more technical approach I tried using the picture plan approach to map out roughly what various vanishing points would look like, then tried to draw them using rough sketched grid lines.

Last few assignments shifted my focus from HL and VPs to SP. Exploring viewer placement in picture plane method, I tested different focal lengths in Blender and translated them into Photoshop. For the project, I experimented with Y and Z axes converging, aiming for a slightly unsettling feel. With basement as the subject, I tried two distortion setups: one with distant VPs that stretched space, and one with closer VPs that felt more immersive. Plus, some value experiments.

Playing with the distortion dial: putting on and taking off perspective. 1. "Normal" perspective distortion, when we view an object at from a typical viewing distance. 2. Strong perspective distortion, when we view an object from a very short distance. 3. No perspective distortion, when we view an object from very far away. The last one was a bit of a puzzle. 🧐

Perspective distortions seem to give even inanimate objects a sense of character.

Here are some normal angle drawings and one wide angle attempt. Used one of the references from the 8 minute challenge. It was difficult keeping proportions consistent.

Here's my last batch for this assignment. I also included a buffalo for the Drawing Basics course because I feel I did some distortion with it. But I also want to comment that I think my line qualities are getting worse. I don't know what is but when I compare what I just recently done with stuff I did before I feel like I'm gotten worse. Maybe is because I spent 2 whole years doing live caricatures where was just straight ink to paper with no pre sketching that has mess me up, and now my pencils work seems to be worse specially when compare to stuff I did years ago. Maybe this isn't the place to ask about that stuff since this is a perspective course, but I don't know is this just in my head, I develop anxiety problems or if my carpal tunnel is starting to hindered my work. What do you think? And I also feel like I'm respecting well the rules of perspective in my freehand drawings.

Imagining the figure from a different view point was really tough. Peter Han's video helped a lot. Thank you Marshall for this challenging assignment. I need to practice this more.

This assignment was fun and challenging. I went through a lot of trial and error with the organic subjects (A, B, and C), they are very flexible but also complex. Using perspective guides like boxes and lines helped me to draw them but also limited me in the exaggeration aspect, I think. For example, i don't know if the subjects B(Chiken Heads) and E(Tank) have this perspective exageration or just are in common perspective. I will continue practicing this assignment, pushing more the exaggeration until it breaks with and without the help of perspective guides. Good day everyone.

I wanted to try a dynamic pose for this assignment. Foreshortening and exaggerating forms is something I'm still struggling with and while I think I could have taken it further I do think I've made some progress. The legs were a challenge but it was fun learning how to bring it up close to the viewer.

I finally found some this week to crack my best on this Crazy-Perspective challenge. For this one, I decided to go for something fun and challenging as a water fountain, as my object to exaggerate with. As I was drawing this water fountain, I found a reference. I decided to experiment with different types of viewpoints alongside angles. As I drew upwards on the fountain, I went with a big space, then slowly went towards a large angle as I moved towards the top. This was a super fun exercise, and I believe I gave it my all on it, so I'm highly pleased with my result here. This is something I'm definitely going to practice often with now. Thanks for the fun lesson here, Marshall. I would also love some helpful advice on how I can continue this practice to improve slowly, as it was a fun experiment that I highly enjoyed. I would love to know how to improve my perspective-taking skills. Any advice is helpful going forward. I also believe I have put my horizon line in the correct position near the bottom of my piece, not quite sure though.

the figure itself looks a little off, cause it has no believable balance point, the head is way too small. But the crazy perspective part was fun - and is teaching me a lot.

Went for humans! They’re a bit of a cringy mess - I limited my time with a focus on how distortions happen and gleaning what makes the sense of movement rather than anatomical precision atm. But boy does the distortion make all that you knew before fly out the window a little bit…very fun though. The shapes will get more confident as I do more of these and I figure out how I want to represent each part, atm I’m still getting used to it. (and I’ve never studied feet yet, cringing at those 😬 )

Looking at the many (amazing!) comments below, I've clearly messed up the assignment by curving all the receding lines haha. Anyway, it was still fun! I tried to experiment with a few things: Straight edges, curved edges, flat surfaces and round surfaces. I think the duck is wrong. I know the body can be simplified into a sphere/box, and the curved receding lines would cause the sphere's contour lines to be weird (tried to illustrate that). However, it seems even with the curved receding lines, there's almost no difference in the overall outline of the duck... Unless the urge to make the duck look good has overpowered me to the point of disobeying the receding lines? Another way to phrase this is whether a sphere will look the same in Crazy Perspective vs normal perspective? I think spheres will be covered in a future lesson. Also, when curving receding lines, is there a difference between whether we curve the lines in a concave or convex way? I experimented with both, however couldn't find much difference besides 'cosmetic purposes'. Thanks!

People who say horses are hard to draw haven't drawn a slug-toy before. But I kind of got the hang of it after a few tries. I tried doing the pikachu head in single point perspective straight in front. But because his head is round it became a bit too complicated so gave up hahaha

Im sorry to submit twice, but here are some more that I did.

I originally chose this rocket by Hergé, because I thought it would look cool and intimidating when seen so close up, but I learned that It was very difficult to apply this effect to such a cylindrical form, because there aren’t really any lines that could go towards any vanishing points. I think I made a lot of mistakes especially on the “feet” of the rocket, and I think it is partly because I made the box that I fit the rocket into so big, that it was very hard to draw any accurate measurements from it. I gradually pushed the 2 vanishing points closer every drawing, but I felt that it needed to have a third vanishing point to make the effect more crazy. i think I made a lot of mistakes in these drawings, so I would appreciate any critique and advice!

Have done then almost a month ago but forgot to post.