Christmas break/Final thoughts

Overall, I think I have managed to improve my understanding of perspective. While my drawings aren't perfect I recon with more practice I'll be able to better depict the scenes around me and better be able to fabricate them too. I know I need to work on the consistency of my parallel lines acuratly passing through their respective horizon points along with keeping objects in environments looking more uniform in perspective. But in general these elements are miles better from when I started.

I understand better how characters can be drawn in perspective and how this helps them feel more believably in the scene while also interacting with the objects around them.

I've been able to create scenes from imagination that look believable enough

I've been able to effectively utilise a 3 point perspective

Most of my studies have been done in physical mediums

I've been able to study organic forms in perspective

I've read through some of Scott Robinsons 'How to Draw' (2012)

Apart from rendering, which is complex enough to be another subject in itself, I've achieved studying all the weaknesses I observed in week 1. Again, although not perfectly polished, I do think my technique has improved a lot since the start of the project. I also want to revisit and reanalyse some of the pieces I covered in week 1 again

This fish picture would have benefitted from having some people ghosted in at the pencil stage in order to get the elements of the buildings feeling proportionally made for a human and in scale. As it stands now, the doorframe is short for a person and not wide enough to be a single or double door. The window at the top of the building is the same size as the bottom window despite being further away, due to the repeating elements in buildings it would have been beneficial to sketch out repeating measurements to keep this accurate. More referencing in general would help make these buildings more believable. The fish would look better with more twist to them, showing off their undersides since you're looking up to see them, shadows here could help emphasise the form.

This train picture mostly just needed more consistency when it came to it's parallel lines

I believe the problem with the grey stand was it needed more overlap in the perspective it's in. Generally this needed to have more consistency in where the 3rd perspective line converged. Then it' the matter of fixing the character in perspective and making sure they're proportioned acuratly.

Ignoring the odd rendering job, I think the problem with this one could be how clinically strait the lines appear. Adding some vertical distortion or curving lines could benefit the piece.

In the case of the boat, more could be done to help it follow the perspective of the rest of the piece. Starting out with the shape as a cube in the right perspective as a base could have helped. I believe you'd see more of the side of the boat and the figures feet should be visible standing within it. For the rest of the piece its small details like keeping the edging of the house a consistent width and protruding out some of the flatter elements.

I believe I have a better understanding of why these pictures don't work and that this demonstrates how much I've learnt over the course of these last few weeks. I'll continue to work on these skills in hopes of eventually mastering them.