If Marshall charged me a nickel for every mark I make based on his instruction, he could retire. Marshall's original perspective DVDs were the single biggest upgrade I've ever experienced in my art. There is the way I drew before Marshall's DVDs and there is how I have drawn ever after. He replaced my drawing frustration with clarity. And now he has updated and refined the course and is adding assignments to accompany his teaching. I couldn't be more excited. This is a big one. With Marshall's perspective course taking its place alongside the pantheon of great courses on Proko, the drawing education available here is world class. A deep dive into perspective was the one foundational course that was missing. Perspective is the skeleton key to the visual world and Marshall Vandruff is its locksmith. I think a beginner can become a good artist here on Proko and a good artist a great one. I, for one, am going to kick the tires on that assertion with all the vigor and force I can muster.

So excited for this!! Is this going to be an expanded version of your old (1990) perspective course? Or will the direction be different in this one? :)

I can't explain how excited I am for this course. No one has ever made the process of learning perspective feel so exciting, or achievable- until Marshal. Some problems I want to solve, is for a start, feeling like I understand what I'm drawing rather than copying or recreating what I have committed to memory. I want to be able to create form from the ground up and wield it like a very shiny sword in my battles against visual storytelling. I'm tired of fighting with a stick. I want to add depth to my character illustrations and I want to not feel so immobilized by fear when it comes to tackling backgrounds. I want to be able to draw characters in different angles and retain the form consistently most of all. Artists I look up to that utilise perspective: - Cutiicosmo - Geoffroy Thoorens - Matt Rhodes - Wendell Dalit - Shiyoon Kim

I am very excited to be taking this course. I definitely fall into the copy what I see trap a lot but I am getting better about it. I found art I like on Insta, I did screen shots to give credit to the artists I found inspiring. I have been drawing since the 80's but just off and on. I want to get better at drawing out of my head as I have a comic in my head that I would like to get out onto paper. I think fundamental knowledge is the foundation you need in order to really improve as an artist so I am starting there and taking courses going over those building blocks to move past my current plateau. I practice the following mediums. Watercolors, Pen & Ink Photography (film and digital) I started taking my own reference pictures and went down the rabbit hole. I also do stained glass and draw my own patterns. I feel all of these things feed on one another Photography can teach you about composition, Pen and ink can teach you what to look for when doing black and white photography and so on. I included a couple of my own works at the end the boats and Ferrari. I will talk about each one briefly and why I picked it. 1. Thomas Schaller I love the perspective in this including the perspective of the cast shadows. I could look at this for hours. 2-6. JeremyHunterArt. I really like his style and his video review of a perspective book lead me down this journey. I especially like the abandoned station in the jungle I love his environments. 7. PaulHeaston He has lots of great posts with amazing perspective. I always like this classic rounded mirror drawing. 8. Aaron.Hudacky I love cars but I like the 3 different view points and the low angle at the bottom. 9. David_Drazil I love the process drawing I have an idea for a similar building in my comic so this grabbed my attention. 10. product_designer_maker I was in the Navy for 22 years and did damage control I can just feel this drawing. Even though it is one dimensional I can tell the shape and curves and how it would feel in my hand. 11. Davidclynk Frank Lloyd Wright vibes and since I live a few hours from his falling water house I had to pick this one. I just get a real sense of the presence of the house. I also find the large numbers on the front interesting and my mind keeps making up stories about them. Is this a mass produced home where everyone gets the same thing could it be an old military complex converted to a home? I also love the plants incorporated in the roof. 12-13. my boats and Ferrari.

Hi! This is my first course so this is all new for me. I tried learning perspective on my own but found it hard. My big picture goal is to be able to draw dynamic characters in perspective from any angle and make interesting set pieces to build a world on. I seem to have reached a plateau in my artwork and I think perspective is the next step for it to improve and feel less flat. I'm a big fan of Yusuke Murata and Dave Guertin's artwork. I'm also a big fan of stylized pieces that look like it was taken as a photo. I want to learn how to make pieces like these: 1-2. Yusuke Murata 3. @lalalalack 4. @khyleri 5-6. Dave Guertin

I had a lot of fun with this first project! I selected some abstract goals, along with a few specific puzzles that I have encountered and would like to set the time aside to explore. As I go through the course, I intend to refer back to these goals and add more specific, concrete details. Seeing all the assignments being posted has also made me excited to discover some more artists!

When I see a painting that catches my breath I want to go inside and learn all about the story in front of me. I want to draw not just the story in front of me but also the story that is happening away from our eyes, in other words my goal is to learn perspective so I can correctly depict what is in front of me as well as from angles I cannot see. My other goal for future is to depict people in places that I have captured in my imagination. Some of the paintings I enjoy looking at and their artist 1. Raphel 2. Jacques Rousseau 3. Thomas Cole 4. Casper Van Wittel 5. Arthur E. Grimshaw 6 and 7 are couple of the pictures that I captured on my various travels that I would love to bring to life on a canvas and also draw them from a different angle.

 I sorted through thousands of images of artists I’d dedicated folders to, I choose 116 images, and of those I selected 25. Five for each goal, plus 5 perspective puzzles. (...Ok, maybe a little more) What are my goals for this Course?   1- To draw and invent characters in dynamic poses, draw them from any angle and rotate characters. 2- Create fantastical creatures, have a sense of scale to the human characters, and move them around the environment. 3- Design vehicles, props, machine and armors that match the stories I want to tell. 4- Master urban, ancient and fantastical architectures. 5- Use perspective to enhance dynamic compositions.   I would also like to improve my structure so to fix my caricatures, I’m been told the features look lick sticker to the face, and improve my shading. I want draw my own comics, storyboards and illustrated my fanarts, specially of Wheel of Time, because no many people had done justice to those books. “Fine, I’ll do it myself” said Thanosly.    

Lvl 1 playing around here. I’m having trouble wrapping my head around which direction the contours should be facing - ie, which directions the C curves on something like this should point. This is a loose sketch, but do the contours feel like they’re indicating the right effect? Thanks, all.

This is what I want to achieve: 1) Deepen my perspective knowledge and abilities to improve all my motifs in general 2) Especially improve my character drawings with correct anatomy and clothing in perspective like great Mangaka & other favorite artists of mine (Takeshi Obata, Kōhei Horikoshi, zuohe24, Gege Akutami, John Grello, Lee InHyuk, Jeong Hyeon & co.) + more natural looking 3) Improve on extreme perspectives & certain weaknesses (inclined planes & multiple characters interacting for example) And yes, I study anatomy & gesture extensively too