The critiques feedback helps. Learning the practical perspective course simultaneously. Makes the understanding of VPs much clearer. Thanks!

I went back to this exercise and tried again. I looked outside my window and drew objects I saw and some in my room too.

Assignment basic shapes

Assignment - Basic Shapes.

just got the course really exited about it this is my take on the first assignment big fan btw

Normally while I’ve been trying to draw perspective, I’ve been a lot more occupied with “how it looks” instead of “does it show perspective.” For example, when drawing an object that is semi-close to me, I’ll attempt to draw it in perspective, and I think it might be right. However, I’m starting to think that “right” might be “boring.” A lot of the critique here seems to involve: 1. Correcting where the perspective is broken (not actually converging toward vanishing points) 2. Exaggerating the perspective of the objects to push them off the page and make them alive This may be an example of “draw some of what you see, what you know, and what you want to see.” It's like a reverse on how I've been thinking where I use the lamp in front of me to determine/draw perspective vs using perspective to help draw the lamp in front of me. This critique is kind of making me think back to the boxes I drew during the assignment and realize, “if the box you are drawing the object in is boring, the object is going to be boring.” It's almost like how they say to start with a stronger gesture because the structure you are going to add will make the drawing feel stiff. Here it's maybe start with the goal of a more obvious perspective on all the objects your drawing. Obviously, there are different reasons to draw, and “boring” might be a bad word choice in a lot of areas, but in this specific course, it seems like this kind of sketching leans more toward inventing a more interesting perspective and pushing perspective with the tools we have.

So much fun. I need more practice

I was sketching along as you critiqued and could definitely feel the difference in trying to push the perspective vs not! This was very helpful thank you!

I have a question: how does one gauge the vanishing points when they are way off the page? In some cases @Rembert Montald is able to plot them because he's doing it digitally but they are actually off the page of the person's notebook. And having them too close generally ends up in a type of distortion as we are outside the cone of vision. (Which starts to happen here -- which is ok as a stylised thing but what if one wants to be slightly more naturalistic.) Is there a simple way to do this if I am sketching in a notebook? Thank you.

I think the biggest takeaway from this video, for me, is pushing the dimensions/perspective of the boxes we're using. *funny thing just happened. I skipped back to a part of the video and Rembert said "pushing your perspective"* It's like figure drawing where you can push the pose further than you think you should.

I didn't have much time this last month to draw. Had these ready but forgot to post, too bad I missed the critique.