Hi
A month ago I finished the basic perspective drawing class. I feel perspective is one of my biggest weaknesses. So I dragged my feet doing this assignment. I have done 3 drawing that I am quite happy with. This is the best of the 3 drawings.
Thank you to all of you who have done the final perspective assignment and putting it up on this forum. It was encouraging to see. It was because of this I decided to have ago at it.
Critiques are welcome.
Hey, I will join you again in this class. Your last group on prop design helped me out immensely. So these are my designs. 
Hi
I am in my late 30’s, a father of 3 and work as a shipper/receiver for a plumbing wholesaler. Most of my working life my jobs have been lower tier physical labour jobs with some exceptions.
I really like the 3 point perspective topic about having dreams, and working towards them. This year i have been pushing myself out of my comfort zone with my art. Wanting to kick my skill level up a couple of notches and trying to work towards my dream of illustrating 1 kids lit book and/or making illustrating a full time job. My goal this year is to have a website show casing my portfolio.
So with this in mind i have some questions:
Is it too late to make a career change into illustration?
Is this dream attainable how did you do it? What steps did you take to get to where wanted to be?
When did you decide to make it a full time gig? Or, did/do you still work a full time job and do illustration on the side?
Is there a well known illustrator that you admire that started their illustration career later in life?
Thanks for taking your time to read.
Rob
Finished the assignment. This is what I came up with
Originally from Sydney, Australia. Now living in Vancouver Canada.
I am going for a tropical beach theme. Here are my silhouettes. 
Final rendered piece. What do you think?
I too just started the course and I will be doing the first assignment tonight. I am thinking of doing a beach theme lamp. It would be great to go through it with a group of people. My schedule varies as I have 3 kids and a full time job to juggle. I will post on this thread when I have something.
Wow that is awesome. I also like you LEGO model, what ever helps. I should do the same with my kids LEGO.
Hey, I will join you again in this class. Your last group on prop design helped me out immensely. So these are my designs.
Does anyone want to join me in doing this course? I started this course a month ago and have not started the first assignment. The reason is I hate drawing vehicles. This hatred goes so deep that I have taken it out not only my car but my neighbors car as well. I would like to get past this deep hatred of drawing vehicles, and also pay for my neighbors car repairs with my fancy Vehicle drawings. Any way if you want to join me feel free. The more the merrier.
Originally from Sydney, Australia. Now living in Vancouver Canada.
I am super excited for this class, can’t wait.
Finished the assignment. This is what I came up with
Thanks everyone for the reply. I do like the idea of letting the client decide the sketch they like and going on from there. This was all good advice thanks again.
A year ago I was asked to do a commission for a friend. Excitedly I said yes. I started the project and gave myself a set time limit. As the deadline got closer to the date i had 4 to 5 finished pieces but still didn’t feel comfortable giving any one of them. In the end i told the my friend i couldn’t do it.
A couple of months later a family member asked for another commission. I set a time limit did several art pieces. Still wasn’t satisfied with the art work but I gave it to my family member anyway.
I have people ask me to do commission and my answer is always no.
For those that do commission, was it easy for you to do commission early on in your art career?
For those that don’t feel comfortable doing commissions, do you feel comfortable doing illustrations for a company? And why?
@Mairin-Kareli I like the design of this lamp. Amazing.
@Mairin-Kareli so looking at your drawing, I think you’re right, start off drawing it in cubes and rectangles. Or if you want to do a big 3/4 rectangular cube, break it down to 3 sections.
What I have been doing is making an X corner to corner top and bottom on the box and another line connecting the x. This helps me understand the space I have with in the box, also helps keep the 3/4 view of the drawing.
I do like the design, it has a very earthy feel to it.