Hello! Long time lurker. I was reading the Ranc0r sticky thread and figured I’d like to have my progress as an artist documented for future artists. I started drawing 1 page of sketches a day back in June and feel my artist eye developing. I have a long way to go but I welcome any and all critiques and especially exercises people know of.
Now that the thread has been approved I can post more pictures.
First, a few books that I have used in learning how to draw:
Big Book of Cartooning by Bruce Blitz
Action! Cartooning and Fantasy Cartooning by Ben Caldwell
Andrew Loomis’ books
Cartoon Animation by Preston Blair
Also i have been using the websiteKarma Toons for instruction as well.
Now to the pictures.
Phew! I am completely open to critiques. I know I have alot of problems. I would also like to hear about other people’s warm up exercises. I find myself not getting into the groove of drawing particularly easy.
A very sparse page for today’s drawing. I had to do shopping at lunch and didn’t get to sit down as long.
Perspective practice. Middle top right is my favorite. Top left would be fine but I lost track of what I was doing when I made the middle 2nd story building. :-/ Was going for a cloudy reflection and ended up with squiggles.
Yet another sketch of perspective. I hat the middle top this time around. The building on the right just lost all sense of direction. :-/
Welcome here, I’m so glad somebody here is doing perspective studies 
I strongly encourage you to keep at it, the fruits will be sweet 
I hope you don’t mind if I point out at some little mistakes you did so that you could avoid them in further studies, here they are :
First, I drawed 3 instead of two building on the left side just to show you how strongly they foreshorten with insreasing distance from camera. You can see that the third building (all 3 have the same length) is actually so thin that it’s barely noticable but yet so much increase the sense of depth. All 3 arrows in this image shows various vanishing points to which paralel lines are converging.
Here I showed an easy method to find centre of a rectangle in perspective. Just make diagonals and where they cross is a true center of that object in perspective. I drew the door right in the middle of it for example. Here I also showed few horizontal paralel lines to get a grasp of how draw the tiles on sides of a road.
This is something essential you should realize, that vanishing point are always behing objects, not in front of them. So to make a sense of the image no. 3 you have to consider it as seen from bellow (like if the floor was transparent). I drew a little guy seeing above to a building above him. You could see some crappy clouds receding on horizont 
Keep up buddy, looking forward to see more
Wow! Thanks siiilon! I wish I had the time to ask you some questions tonight but I have to be up early tomorrow. I really appreciate the crits and when I get back from PAX 2009 next week I’ll have lots of sketches to upload.
