FINALLY! I have already dived into perspective 3-4 times and know Marshalls 90's videos by heart almost but will enroll in this, no questions asked. Because Marshall and my art is worth it.

Very meditative and fun. I love all the finishing touches, working on ambient occlusion, penumbra... the hardest part is knowing how to to the cast shadow shape properly in relation to the perspective.

Last year I finished Lesson 3 and then took a little break. It was nice revisiting DAB within the purpose of this course and completing DAB Lesson 4. After doing so, I really challenged myself to go out of my comfort zone. I used crosshatching (which I hated up until now) while applying what I learned so far from this course, and what I've learned about insects, to make a drawing of an insect purely from imagination, without using references. Doing this before moving on to the section on inventing shading is deliberate - I have promised myself to redraw this after completing the next section and see how it differs. I feel there is some realism lacking from my imaginary insect, it would make me happy to get some critique on what is missing - a background tone? Is the value organization too messy? Should I have done outlines in certain parts? I feel it's a lot harder organizing values with crosshatching, but I am determined on slowly getting there.

I will use drawabox more later

Draw a box is awesome. Love the community idea. Would love a Dorian / Shading community with you guys aswell ... just an idea :-) Cool exercise!

Crosshatching is still such an extreme challenge to me! I definitely can imagine the form, but quickly start to overthink because of neighboring planes. One of Dorian's tips has especially helped set me straight: hatch along the most dramatic change of direction in a plane! I was inspired and immediately did another Asaro head to test my newfound reasoning, unfortunately, I accidentally closed the tab and did not finish the ear and some larger plane. Grateful for feedback!

Did not find a non-complicated way of doing the complex joints at the elbow and knees, and anatomically, spheres are not a very truthful representation... decided to skip it. Suggestions?

Looking for some input on the perspective on the legs and arms, specifically for the limbs receding from the viewer and the pelvis. Since the pelvis is tilted in the opposite direction of the torso, it becomes a bit tricky to decide whether to find the perspective from the ASIS landmarks, or relative to the torso... usually, I imagine were I would be with my own eye level at the scene and go from there. Here, I see some other solutions. Grateful for an explanation!

Not sure I chose a good image, I feel like I may have misunderstood the light direction in this one... maybe? It's the red blazer that confuses me, because when I look at the values of the fabric and their cast shadow especially, seems like there is another light from the left. A bit unsure. Very valueable exercise which I will revisit often.