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.

It kind of feels like this assignment came out too soon. You very briefly mentioned isometric perspective but I don't know the rules or angles to use. I know the triangles are used but I don't know how. I see you stack them sometimes but the example is cut up so much I can't see what you are doing. Not trying to be negative but this feels like I should go read about isometric perspective some where else before attempting this. A demo on basic isometric cubes showing how to use the tools would help me alot.

I spent some time getting familiar with the tools. It's been slow-going. Using them is harder than I thought - but I can see them being quite handy once I get the hang of it, including my attempts at boxes flipped inside out on both bond & tracing paper.