I began this assignment by attempting to draw the boxes in the same orientations as the image above. I need much more work on drawing boxes in space given these are lacking. As for the arrows, I did my first page of arrows in random orientations using illustrated vanishing points. I did my second page of arrows using a technique I have been learning on how to guesstimate the vanishing points of a box to better assume the object’s place in space. I did not use the blob approach at all to draw any of the boxes, but I may practice doing so and then extrude my arrows as a warm up exercise outside of this assignment.

Here is my swing at this exercise. The first thing I noticed was feeling unsure about making parallel lines converge and to what extent. This was especially the case for the dead above and below angles. The second was how difficult it became to maintain volumetric consistency within the same set of angles. Invariably edge lengths and angles would shorten or lengthen and this would be the case with thicknesses as well. But I'm sure that with the right level of 'Marshalling', Mr Vandruff will make a soldier out of me yet 😉.

Those corner boxes/ arrows are tricky little things! It felt like i did better when i was just doing them randomly instead of trying to measure them against each other and keep them accurate

I tried to put on paper what I learned from this lesson. I started with the arrows in orthographic view, rotated them within the plane, and then pulled them up toward and above the horizon line.

Phew finally caught up. I noticed some where the arrow is coming towards us the point became very distorted.

I’ve had to watch both videos about 500 times but I think it’s beginning to sink in. I don’t know if it’s my old age fog but I found this quite challenging. Deciding if my arrows are above or below kind of puts my brain into the twilight zone! On about the fifth replay I finally got the joke about dying after seeing the two diagonal planes! 😂🤣😂. Old age?👵. Did I get this right? I hope so, because I’m headed to trying a blocky subject in the box next. Thanks again. I’m enjoying learning to see things in a new and artistic way. I might be getting the POINT!

Here is my assignment. I tried drawing through forms and did some perpendicularity practice but I think a lot more book stacking is on the horizon. Hopefully it will help with intuiting right angles because I’m not happy with those from imagination. :3

I did never think about drawing arrows. This is really interesting und fun way to do them.

It might sound silly but I have always wanted to be able to draw arrows like this and have seen it as a key weakness of my drawing that I can’t do something so deceptively simple! 1000 arrows later, and I have put something together… Granted I haven’t watched the extra video on it yet, so when I do I will probably see everything I did wrong, but I have battled this arrow to death for the time being. I have done and redone and redone the assignment, and I can now kind of visualise what I want to draw before I draw it, which was not possible at the beginning. I still put it down wrong to begin with but after about 3 redraws I finally get an arrow that works… kind of. I tried not to draw boxes and fill them in for this - that may sound dumb but I wanted to try and think logically about whether something was close (and therefore bigger) or further away (and therefore smaller or not so visible). Unfortunately my instinct with converging lines (already made more difficult by all these diagonal lines) always seems to be wrong and converge in the wrong direction.

Ok @Marshall Vandruff I think I smell a trap, or maybe I’m just being dramatic 😱 . So, we have 9 basic views and we can draw these as boxes and even add their X, Y, Z axes. Then we have an arrow as an object, and can assign X, Y, Z and a bonus XZ (pic 2). Now, when we put the arrow in a box and draw it from one of the nine views, we can either prioritize Arrow X, Y, Z (pic 3) or maintain consistent X, Y, Z between boxes and arrows (pic 4). The consequence in picture 3 is that the arrow X, Y, Z (solid line colour examples) is different to the Box X, Y, Z (dashed line colour examples). The consequence in picture 4 is that you are constrained in ways you can tumble the arrow in order to keep the box/arrow co-ordinates consistent. So what’s my question….well, I guess that the axes of the object stay consistent no matter how we tumble them, and the axes of the environment stay consistent regardless of viewer position, but object and environment axes will usually be inconsistent and so we keep two sets of axes (or more if many objects) in mind when drawing…?

Learning new things.

Oh no, I just realized. I forgot to draw them from memory - hope to add those tomorrow.

Struggled a lot with getting arrows to go into the background, or coming out of, but in the end I started getting the hang of it. That said, I still can't do it without the scaffolding (the plane below). What am I doing wrong? Is this considered the exercise, or did I fail for not going at it blindly?

Great exercise... get more feeling for perspective

I'm finally understanding how people do those boxes around the sphere thing and the arrows were pretty fun to draw aswell!(also added a warmup page toom ust for funsies)