Freehanded the front, side, and top views of the toy plane. I have to say, these orthographic views are deceptively easy! It took me a good while to finish this. When I checked with a ruler later, some things didn’t quite line up. I think it’s because I failed to make the front view symmetrical at the start. Note to self: Mind the symmetry!

Struggling with One-Point Perspective for an Anchor – Need Help with Back Plane! Hi Marshall and everyone, I really need some help with my second version of this drawing. I decided to do a one-point perspective drawing of an anchor for a ship, thinking it'd be a solid challenge--but wow, it's much harder than I expected. The first version with the vanishing point on the side wasn’t too difficult—I think I got the general idea down. But my second attempt, where the VP is below, is really puzzling me. The main issue (with my second version): 1. I can't figure out how to draw through the back plane while keeping the anchor symmetrical. 2. When I try to make it symmetrical, the left arm sticks out too much, but given where the VP is, it shouldn’t be that visible - I think. 3. I'm struggling with defining the thickness of the form correctly in perspective. This project is making me realize that while I’m relatively comfortable drawing through a box, doing the same with a complex form like an anchor is a different challenge. I'd appreciate some help with how to construct the back plane and maintain the correct thickness of my examples. Any advice or tips on projecting complex forms is also welcome. Thank you!

Hi everyone, have we learned how to do orthographic projections in this course, (basically drawing front, side, top views in proportion)? I apologize if I've missed it. Just wondering if we're expected to learn it on our own or if it'll be covered later here if it already hasn't been.

Here are my submissions: a tin watercolor palette from direct observation and a hydra from imagination (multiple snake heads in different orientations). In both cases I found I had to sketch them out many many times to figure out the structure. Even with seemingly simple objects, it was not so straightforward for me to reduce them to simpler forms.

A bunch of boxes, some from blobs, others not. While it wasn't easy, last year's box exercises from the Proko Basics course helped. Nothing impressive, but it wasn't as challenging as the first time around. I'm hoping this means some improvement, however slow. I so badly want to improve my perspective skills so I can observe and draw forms better. Until then, one box at a time! One thing I've struggled with the blob approach is that when I start with blobs, my contour lines are off. As mentioned by someone else in the comments, contours are acutally ellipses..and I've realized that I don't really know how to draw them in perspective according to the kind of box I'm picturing. So drawing boxes straight-up (and not from blobs) feels easier to me. Is this something that I'll get better at once we learn ellipses? Any feedback would be appreciated! Thanks

I tried the blob approach to drawing objects in front of me. The blob isn't that visible but it's there, I swear. The first object is a jar of rusk, the other 2 may be me getting slightly ahead of this course and myself and drawing 2 vehicles at an automobile exhibition I visited.

Simplified a Proko plane model into boxes. It took me so so long to draw everything through free-hand. And I haven't even started on imagining it in different perspectives! Is it okay to take time with these studies? I want to go faster. Though this might be a somewhat obvious question, in your experience, does speed come with practice in perspective drawings?

Awesome breakdown of the works of masters! I need to start looking and paying more attention at these drawings..I put so much emphasis on practicing on my own that I don't look at others' works enough.

This assignment is so much fun! Also using translucent paper to try things out without redrawing the entire image from scratch is such an awesome idea. Curiously, it seems that in Australia the word 'vellum' is not in much use. The only 'vellum' I found in Sydney was an old pack of absolutely gorgeous Arches drawing paper. I wouldn't have noticed it if I wasn't looking for 'vellum' 😉

This was fun! :) I enjoyed both research and drawing part of it. I created a redrawing of Sandro Del Prete on first page, by analysing it first. On second page i copied some random illusions i've found. I did everything freehand, because it is part of the fun, when drawing traditionally imo. I know rendering is not the point here, but i could not resist the urge :) I think i started to understand these isometric optical illusions after this exercise. I had never given any thought about this subject before, tbh.