It’s a bit like playing chess, be aware of all the moves. I wanted to keep it simple enough to find out what happens when you move the horizon line. Maybe I don’t get it?

Hey again! As I mentioned in my previous message, I just finished drawing these two scenes. For each one, I started with a reference photo, reconstructed it in perspective, and then I redrew the same scene from a different point of view 😁 The first one took me way longer than the second, as you can imagine… 😅 But I really loved this exercise, and I’ll definitely do it several more times!

Learning to draw both Above and Below eye level Assignment was truly quite challenging but I believe I grasped the most of it as I continued on with it. I decided to use a reference of a Victorian House bedroom for mine for something challenging. I started out doing mostly the same type of viewpoint trying out different angles. Then I decided to challenge myself with this one and my art thinking skill onto trying out many different angles of the room and how one shall see it from above or below as well as angled here. I believe I did a pretty good job took me a week n a half to get these 3 pages done. But I am pretty proud of this accomplishment did the timer in my head n first few took me 40 minutes then as i got used to it I got a bit quicker each time. This was such a fun challenge to go through Marshall. Hopefully I got the concept of this assignment pretty decently. I was gonna do more but as I got towards 11 my brain needed a break. Will try and do bit more in time for the critque tomorrow or the next day best I can. Hopefully these look good and would love some helpful tips or advice all is welcome and gladly will put them into my practice.

The last 4... I fought a lot, but I guess I got the main teaching point "looking up, lines go down and looking down, lines go up". I get caught a lot in comparisons unfortunately. Why are others able to make this thing aesthetically pleasing and I am not? So another learning point for me was to just concentrate on my training and progress. But the latter is a really difficult to get into my brain….

Hey Marshall, I think I took your sentence, "30 times and you'll get it, 50 times and you'll never forget," a little too seriously... 😂 After 7 hours and 30 minutes of intensive practice spread over a bit more than two weeks, I've created these 150 little scenes, exploring various angles and points of view. Now, I feel like I can instinctively locate the horizon line and angles without even thinking—it’s become second nature! 😅 The first 50 were 5-minute studies, the next 50 took 3 minutes each, and the last 50 just 1 minute each. Next up, I'll try drawing the same scene from different points of view. 👍🏻 It was a challenging yet incredibly rewarding experience. I truly feel the benefits of the effort deep down. Thanks a lot, Marshall!

I did these not quite following the rules about the timer 😬. I instead focused on noticing carefully when I made mistakes, and then I would try to figure that problem out. but I also did some of them following the time. I hope my questions about the rotated carpet makes sense… I’m glad to know that I can trust that Marshall will clear up any problems I’m having with rotating objects later in the course!

Unfortunately I'm getting started on these a bit late but the best time is always now

Quote from the video: "Sketch Examples" Are you refering to the example sketches you scroll through during the video? That's what I've been doing or it that considered copying. Looking down, lines go up Looking up, lines go down I assume the main goal of the exercise is to automate the thinking to muscle memory by repetition using the examples in the video.

This was a lot harder than I expected. I felt like I did okay when the objects stayed in the same perspective as the walls of the room, but really struggled placing objects with their own perspective in a convincing way. Not sure if some of my struggle was distortion in the room photos I used. Definitely a good exercise that I’ll have to keep in the rotation.

I tried to draw various scenes from different angles. I added a lot of details to practice keeping the proportions of the objects and their relations with the surrounding objects consistent at all the viewing angles. I struggled the most at that. Also, the extreme angles were challenging.

the 2nd batch of 16pcs Starting to get better especially understanding how to tilt all the lines when we move the horizon line up and down. But dont ask me what is that last row, have no clue myself xD

Hey everyone! Really impressed with how many iterations you’ve all managed to crank out this week. Seriously inspiring! I only managed one—got too caught up trying to make things perfect instead of just practicing more loosely. If anyone has advice on how to let go of that and build a more consistent practice, I’d really appreciate it! This is a two-story library inspired by the reference photo attached. It’s a mix of freehand and ruler work. It took me a lot longer than I expected, especially drawing through everything (including the ladder). Excuse the mess. I might go back and clean up the lines later. I wasn’t sure if the balcony and railing make structural sense. Does it seem believable? Also, I struggled with relative proportion. For example, where would you say the couch hits on the ladder behind it? Around the second rung? I just placed things by intuition, but is that what we’re supposed to do when objects are at different distances—or is there a better method? Any feedback is welcome. Thanks in advance! Always learning from you all 😊

Here's my 2nd batch. Next, my scene iterations. Maybe is the mechanical pencil feeling, my carpal tunnel or the fact I'm drawing smaller, but I can't for the life of me draw straight lines as before. I am doing Peter Han's exercise he show earlier in the course as warm-ups. Hopefully they will help. I also bought Stan's Drawing Basics course taking advantage of the sale, and I'm all set for when part 2 of this course drops. Any advice about juggling both courses and these eye-level assignments? I keep forgetting to repeat myself "Looking up, lines go down. Looking down, lines go down" and I think more of XYZ.

I have done 6 of my most recent office, I think 50 may kill me...

I tried to do each iteration with one minute less time. I feel like some of the quicker ones got a little messy though. I did the sketches in ink so that I wouldn’t waste time erasing. Should I try to make them cleaner next time or is ok to keep the messiness?

Digitally did some things around my house and next day some thumbnails of some 3d models I found. Anyone else have the problem of not knowing what they want to draw? Feels like finding interesting reference online is harder then It should be and everything around me is kinda boring. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/tavern-by-duduoliveira-d2dfb0104cfc45de826cbbc4069f1774

just to be sure I get it right: an angle is acute if it looks like an arrow that could hurt me, and is obtuse when it looks blunt and could not pierce my skin? acute is one hand of the clock on 3 the other on 6 and every position in between that, (one hand not moving) obtuse is one hand on 3 and the other between 6 and 9 and every position between that (one hand not moving) I'm very insecure about this last point; am I getting it right??? many thanks for any help, adhd makes this visualization on a clock very difficult. I found this image - there are other that show "reflex" angles etc, vo we need to understand those too?

Not gonna lie, I set out to be between the 30-50 mark. And it was exhausting! But I believe in learning through repitition. Going there where it hurts and not avoiding the hard things. We don‘t progress in spite of hard things but because of them. Ok, enough cheese. anyway - I made always the first picture from reference and the one underneath is the perpective tilt. I think there are to examples where I made two tilts in one room.

first 16, I find it really tough inventing rooms and objects around a middle eye level especially if the vanishing points are pretty close. I think Im so used to draw object from bottom or top view

I used some sketches I did recently in cafe bars for references then redrew a section to fit square ratio, followed by the two changes to the horizontal line. When I next go back to the cafes I will try the new views to compare with the ones I imagined.