Orthos Project: I tried to draw a car but messed up the proportions when drawing the 3/4 view. Maybe I should do this in pencil next time. 😔

Mushrooms with emotions :D

This was a really fun exercise. I will definitely practice it more.

Here's my attempt at the Level 2 skull, with some thumbnails and smaller studies on the side done as a warm-up. I wasn't sure when to stop adding detail, so I stopped when I liked the look of it.

Instead of people's names, my subject matter for this assignment was my favourite studytime distraction topic in school ergo metal band names. I tried to explore a range of font styles in order to get sharp angles and gradual contours, and everything in between. The diagonal nature of the Judas Priest logo yielded especially interesting results. Sorry in advance about the scratch-offs...

Took a leap of faith and did some plein air watercolor painting today. Whenever I try to draw vegetation from a photo, I find it very hard to simplify the noise and vary colors to create interest. This one is the most satisfactory one till date, though I was on the verge of ruining it by overworking the details.

Ink and wash sketches.

I struggled with figuring out how much to squash the organic shapes as I got closer to the horizon line so I tried doing this exercise with straight lines and 2 vanishing points. I really enjoyed the process. In trying to cover the page, I found that sometimes I was outside the sphere where my vanishing points give a realistic result, but it gave me a better sense of how much the objects squashed. I hope in a future lesson Marshall will explain why things look wonky around the edges but I will wait patiently for that and enjoy the process in the meantime.

still need to finish and fix a few things

Nicely done! Clean lines, and great character likeness!