I usually feel like a grid somewhat restricts me. It makes me feel like I can only make the lines of the car follow the gridlines.  but this time I actually think I liked the result with the grid better. The angle that the car is viewed from might have had an impact, but I feel like it was nice that I always knew what general direction the lines had to go on the one with the grid.

This week is a strange one. It feels like the beginning of something new - and I’ve taken to (for the first time) drawing household objects like saucers and teapots and pans. But at the same time because there are lots of inaccuracies still, it’s like I can’t express properly this change outwards haha. But something does feel switched on. I really loved this assignment. Sorry for not using grids yet Marshall, I’m having a lot of fun freehanding it, but I will. :3

Beginning to feel the space as I draw and pleased to be getting there. I used red boxes and blobs for the final 3 drawings on the left and a grid for the group.

For the most lines, I did use the grid. But for one I invented my one invisible grid, to move the knife in the desired position. .

Mine is super boring. I just did the toy plane multiple times, those shown are only the "good ones". I don't know from a learning perspective if that was too repetitive, but I felt like I needed to train this one and kept on learning.

More grid project!

Here's my shot-in-the-foot of a submission. I just had to pick a Formula 1 car for my orthos, didn't I? With all its fancy curves and swoops and scoops and diagonals and...ya, great thinking Ishaan. No doubt making this was extremely challenging, and the results are really 'sketchy', no pun intended. The right front tyre looks to be further away from the nose cone than the left front which defies visual logic. A lot of sections were hidden away from view/not clearly defined inspite of the orthos. I also took care to not see the actual car model and relied entirely on only the orthos, so I had to 'make up' a few sections. I'm not sure if I have it in me to make this from another angle but as Darth Maul once put it, 'pain is the greatest teacher'. Nevertheless, here's something to improve upon as this course progresses.

Another try on using grids. The grids were half finished because I'm lazy to draw all the lines, Some of them are also pretty wonky. But I find them good enough. In fact, they help me practice perspective intuitions on where the lines supposed to be and to make them look believeable enough! This improved my opinion on grids alot. I think my biggest challenge is trying to put a rotated object that does not orient to the lines. The grid lines are like event horizon of a blackhole seducing me to put the linesparallel to them, trying to break free of that thinking is harder with those free guidelines around!

Hey Marshall! I’ve been completely absorbed by this assignment over the past two weeks. I loved it so much that I kept doing —and redoing— my orthos into full-fledged perspective drawings 😂 When I selected the objects for my orthographic views, I had no clue they’d end up forming this assignment—so naturally I chose some real head‑scratchers, haha. I made all the drawings completly freehand But honestly, the challenge made it way more interesting—so many ellipses that I’m pretty sure they’ll haunt my dreams! Thank you so much for the fantastic content of this course :)

It took a while to get used to the grids. There were so many lines and also it became much more obvious if my own lines were wrong. I started by testing the different grids and at first I thought that I would draw on the entire grid and see the difference. I saw the difference. I realized that it's not a good idea to draw across the entire grid. Either you're getting too much distortion or the grid suddenly doesn't make sense anymore. It was challenging. It took a lot of thinking. I went from being frustrated and wanting to give up to it going okay to more frustration again. Especially after I had done the sharpener and the table. I looked at the other orthos I made in the last assignment. My mind just did not want to make sense on how to draw them. I did notice a few mistakes I made in the orthos but mainly it just became too complex. I ended up simplifying more. This was to focus on proportions, which to be honest I kinda forgot about at first. I was so focused on just getting the basic shapes right. And even when I did try to think about it, I just felt discouraged. But I guess noticing that I'm having trouble with it, is the first step to get better… I kept changing the length in the more foreshorten views. But it never felt right. Either it was to long and when I changed it, it felt to short… One of the views of the table, I did several times. And even if my intention was to foreshorten more. I ended up doing it the same as my earlier attempt anyway. Foreshortening is hard. I did this digitally because that felt most convenient with the grids. I did try to figure out how to draw the grids myself as well. It was not a success. I look forward to learning more about it

Tried this exercise with some success and a lot of failure. I'm not sure if I'm distorting more than foreshortening, if my object is too complicated for my current skill level, or if the perspectives I'm choosing are too crazy to do. Maybe it's that I'm not keeping the proportions of the object? I'm pretty puzzled about the issue. I hope that I find the problem in the critique video. I tried other objects just in case. My original object is the first two images.

And here's my final batch for the assignment. I don't know why I have such a hard time doing cleaner sketches, but is a habit I have for years now. Any advice on how to break it easily? I also notice that I had a harder time doing this ones compare to my first time, maybe is because I took some short break from the assignment to give some rest to my hand. And my first go-to with the grids came shortly after two whole weeks grinding XYZs and the arrows in space. I realize too that the farther wheels on the final drawing are way off in size compare to the ones closest to us, even though I was certain I got the box right before building the buggy, and even though I didn't have an ortho view of the back I think I got pretty close, what do you guys think? Also, I forgot @Rachel Dawn Owens had give me some feedback on my first try and didn't keep that in mind while doing these ones. Sorry Rachel I'll try to pay more attention next time.

I returned to re-draw my playdate, the object I chose from the Zero-Point Perspective Assignment. I may have concluded I had trouble doing this one, but I went freehanded to challenge myself and my thought process yet again. Also learned how to draw it using different perspective angles, best to use both third-quarter and angled viewed perspectives this time around. I noticed I made a bit of a mistake, I believe, with the first angled one, so I went back and redid that one. Then I think I have improved using my intuition this round regarding my structure work, which I believe I did pretty well, I believe? I would love some insights on whether I did anything wrong here and how I can improve with training my Visual Intuition when prioritizing structures within my drawings. Any Advice on how to train my thoughts on my visual Intuition?

Sorry to double post. Promise all other work and question will be posted in the replies. I want to extrude the bottom rectangle (circled in the ortho) I know we did some of this in the Simple Forms exercise but I'm having trouble finding the lines. Lead is exterior lines, Blue is interior lines, and the red are my attempt find halves and thirds. Any advice? (I took this image off the graph so it would photograph a little bit clearer)

I had difficulty designing my grids, so I freehanded my skull in several angles. I do wish I had streamlined my ortho first before attempting this assignment.

The struggle bus continues. If I follow the grids they force proportions that I don't want, when I tell the the grid lines to leave me alone the line directions don't work. Even if the odd chance of a happy accident happens and the base form looks okay-ish I get completely loss when I need to extrude a form from it.

tried it freehand

Had another go with this house box thing my kids dinosaur came in. I made some orthos and then did some angles from imagination. By 3/4 I was rushing and making mistakes, so I tried to really slow down and also try and go bigger because I keep going too small by accident. I think bigger allows more precision. By the end one I wasn't managing space well though and fell right off the page...