Drawing Diaries: And Finally.....Perspective

The hardest lesson of all has been left until now, since the students have, by now, all absorbed and in some cases mastered the basics of drawing and are able to take on a final challenge.
After a full day of work looking at one point perspective and sighting for foreshortening, they have been sent off with two weeks of tasks to practise this and their other skills combined.
This is the collection of work from the first week's assignments.

Marian commented this week

I enjoyed copying the 3/4 face by Lucas Cranach, but after the portraiture I found returning to still life rather uninspiring and was not happy with the flat and very controlled results. This is amazing as at the beginning of the course I would have chosen anything that could be drawn with a ruler (Left Brain) over anything with curved contours and soft edges (Right Brain).

I found the squared grid impossible to line up in exactly the same place each time I checked, so I abandoned it in favour of the viewer which is much more forgiving in this respect.