Thank you so much for the course Marshall. All of this has been really insightful. I feel like my brain is buzzing with new knowledge and a deeper understanding of the knowledge I already had. I have a bit of a backlog of assignments to through, because life was happening, but I've watched all the videos now and they have prepped me to think differently, whenever I encounter perspective challenges in art. It is becoming a lot more intuitive. I will dare to foreshorten more and maybe I will dare to upload my drawings as well.

Looking at other people's photos also helped me understand that the setting looks more up, down, left and right in close-ups and vice versa for far-away. I was struggling with this concept in my head, and people's wonderful photos help clear that up. Regarding the Digital zoom verses the Optical zoom. Omg… that is why all my zoomed-in images sucked. I thought it was just my eyesight getting worse haha. Thank you Marshall, for addressing my concern about trajectory in my submission! It made a lot of sense. And I can see why the Trajectory videos were given only after the far-away/close-up video, because it allowed me to reflect on my submission and additionally learn new things about trajectory - which is overall a more meaningful learning experience.

Great review video Marshall. I’ll practice my daring during the pause! See you all in 2026 - Merry Xmas and Happy new Year 🎊🎆 (ps might be fun if everyone clogs up this part 1 finale comments section with examples of perspective stuff they working on until part 2…)

Marshall The critiques are great, thanks. A lot of helpful comments posted too, thanks to all. The explanation of the Zolly app is feature is brilliant. I tried it a while back and disn't really understand the distortion when experimenting with the controls. Using the dog photo with the paws exaggerated distortion, I suppose is an example of foreshortening, The dog also look thinner too. Looking forward to Part 2

HELP NEEDED! I've just played with zolly for an hour and a voice in my brain still says: "why does the horizon move towards the center when I did not change trajectory" I cant get this point intuitively - HELP! (yes my mind is super slow)

Thank you so much, Marshall, for not only putting this insightful course together to learn with one another throughout the different assignments. Thank you for the amazing, well-constructed Critiques. I have truly embraced this course with open-minded thoughts as I tackled the assignments. Each one was fantastically well constructed to help me learn more about perspective, which I am highly happy with am from the beginning of the course and with my growth till now. Thanks for challenging my brain on each one throughout Part One. I am so looking forward to Part two in the Spring and continuing, and will keep practicing on what I've learned here through Christmas break in all my drawings. Wishing all my fellow students a fantastic winter break for those who celebrate it.

Good crit! Everyone's work was so cool. I definitely could have exaggerated the views more now that I see how daring everyone was. I think I just took the assignment too literally and drew more of a, what differences a lens makes objectively, without considering the idea of also adjusting distance to the subject as well. Simply put, I was thinking more technically then with feeling... Something to keep in mind for future drawings: to add that true feeling of stepping forward into the immediate space of the subject in combination with a wider lens. After all, feeling is really what we want, isn't it? :)

Hey Marshall for plan projection with curvelinear perspective. Would something need to change to capture the perspective distortion. I tried using a curved picture plane but I suspect there are a couple more steps or I am completely off base because the perspective distortion didn't translate into the drawing. Please let me know.

I love your quote Marshall, it's very inspiring. Reminds me of something a skating coach said that stayed with me. He said always practise even when feeling under the weather, those small sessions will add up and eventually giving a competitive edge on all those that took time off.

Thank you so much Marshall for the critique and Anthony for your inspiring work (truly the MVP of the assignment :D). I'll exaggerate more in the future! Also just a little note: shading helps me a great deal to reflect on my mistakes afterwards. If I only do contours I tend to not see my mistakes so well. That's the whole story. I don't really care about making pretty sketches, it just helps :D PS: I am currently hardcore studying for JLPT N4 test in December so I won't be active for the next weeks. But I'll be back afterwards :)

Thank you so much for the critique! And the critiques on all the amazing work of everyone here. I learn so much from them. Enjoy your time off, there's enough material to deepen our study. And thank you for the encouragement with that wonderful quote! ❤️

4:56 "That's telling us that we are standing closer than we are..." ... Or that the court is huge. It could be telling us that it is many hundreds of steps deep. If you want to exaggerate, these tools work for that.

I cant believe 1 year had passed by since the start of the course! Oh how time flies, but time we travelled beneficially since this course singlehandedly could transform the way a person see the world through their eyes. Cheers everybody! I got a couple of lessons to catch up though, It' been a real busy month!

Ahh I am not emotionally ready for the halfway point, can we change this course to live service and continue it forever, gacha style? 😆 It’s really nice to pause and remember how far we have come from the start of this class. (btw two figures - globe-holder and bent-leg - are master studies I did to analyze perspective; the rest are my own from photo references. For semi imagination stuff on “easy” mode the Skelly app is really good. Drawing the bones gets perspective practice in and then you can add simple shapes/muscles depending how far you want to take each practice. Or even use as poses for your own character designs)

Thanks for all the critiques and answers to so many of our questions. Hope to work through a basic class and get back into cartooning as my 'break' hopefully enough knowledge leaked into my subconscious that those may be easier and more relaxing... knowing me probably not. But, hey! A guy can dream! Enjoy your hiatus/winter hibernation.

That quote at the end is a beautiful close to part 1! I'm a little sad at the arrival of the half way point, but sad or not, its a good excuse to review part 1 to keep things fresh as prep for the onslaught of cubes you promised us earlier! I'm Very much looking forward to mastering these skills you've taught us. -Oh! and we did meet in person, so may your heart sadden no more! I believe you said something to the effect of "You could be a stunt double for Adam Driver", Glory.

Thank you Mr. Vandruff for the brief critique, looking at my submission now I could've narrowed the court and spread it wider. Welp that's what happens when you follow the assignment and try to do it without looking at the wide angle shot first XD

Marshal!! I have that Framed Ink book, I haven't read it yet and you spoil it!!!

Wow! I loved the section showcasing the juxtaposition of angles on a same shot from KPop Demon Hunters! The pawn with 'How it's Done' was masterly crafted...I am taking my hat and nodding in approval...

There will be one more assignment in part 1 to tide you over until part 2! Coming soon!