Assignment - How to Draw in One-Point Perspective

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Assignment - How to Draw in One-Point Perspective

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Marshall Vandruff

in The Perspective Course

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Draw Your Name in One-Point Perspective

Try drawing your name or some other text you care about into deep space using one-point perspective. Start with a straight-on view of your name, then extend lines from the corners to a single vanishing point to create depth. This extrudes a flat front plane into a three-dimensional form.

Deadline - submit by Mar 05, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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playing around the assignment :p

Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)

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Cool shapes!

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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WordArt for the win

Michael Giff

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19d

These are a few days old, need to try to implement the instruction from the next video.

Shayan Shahbazi

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19d

still working on it. I worked on some letters and took them to digital and used tools (only the ruler) over there. let me know if this is correct.

Angelica

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20d

I was not that motivated for this one. Just writing my name did not feel that exciting to me and I have done some one point perspective drawings before so just doing letters felt too easy. It was not! It required a lot of thinking to get right and it turns out letters are quite good to use because you automatically get a variety of different shapes to practice with. Anyway here is my name where I used a ruler and then 20 freehand sketches.

Marshall Vandruff

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19d

You so did it! Good work Angelica - especially to see your pursuit of variety.

Raitlin

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20d

Last second submission, hopefully not too lateĄ..

@lona

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20d

Jeremy Johnson

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20d

I had fun with this, but the result was undesirable. No worries! I'll keep practicing until I find desirability.

Michael Longhurst

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20d

These were a lot of fun. Ran into some interesting design problems where it would look better to consider more carefully where the walls of the extruded shapes fall in relation to the edges of the main shapes. Some edges lined up too closely to the perspective lines to look good.

Marshall Vandruff

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19d

Good job though! Makes you appreciated the graphic designers more, eh?

Kelly Keuneke-Marts

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21d

This was surprisingly more difficult (for me) when the angles of my name didn't want to disappear correctly haha! That was unexpected problem solving I had to do. Onto the next assignment!

Anke Mols

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21d

I find the ones, where the vanishing point is "inside" (?) not very believable. Ok, done by a beginner by hand, which might be the most suitable explanation why. Or is it more readable if I'd put the vanishing point not straight in the middle?

Melanie Scearce

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20d

Your shading creates the effect of it being an "interior" instead of an object. When the vanishing point is directly behind the cross in 1point perspective, we wouldn't see any of the 3D effect because it's all behind the front plane. The back plane is becoming visually smaller as it goes back in space. Having the vanishing point off to the side allows us to see the side planes.

Sita Rabeling

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21d

Using the isometric grid was fun. In the second image: the name by which my mother used to call me. I thought a Fraktur font would be nice, but it was a bit of a challenge.

Sita Rabeling

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21d

Forgot this one, playing with initials, trying to create a nice font.

Kathrin

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21d

Anke Mols

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21d

Paul B

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21d

Here is my basic attempt at doing the perspective mame. I did a basic font style and did one that extends into infinity and one that stops after a short depth.

Lucie VERGNON

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22d

Hey Marshall 😊 Here is my assignment for this one point perspective exercise... I couldn't resist to try with two point also, as I found this exercise really fun, and made variations with subjects I love 👍🏻

Tara Kate

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21d

Another Pink Floyd fan here. Well done!

Paul B

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21d

Great font choices and perspective looks great

Léa

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24d

I feel lucky my name is just 3 letters ! I took this assignment as an opportunity to make a mini illustration and just to have fun with perspective :)

Carlos Pérez

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23d

lucky you jahaja

Darin

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24d

This was kinda fun, but I must admit to having more fun with the melted pancake landscapes.

Carlos Javier Roo Soto

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24d

This is probably all I can do for now. I would try to make one more before the 5th. But what can you see needs work here? (Besides the clean-up) And of my roughs which one you like the better?

Ron Kempke

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25d

I wish you'd put as much effort into explaining as you do entertaining, like equating the horizon with the viewer's eye level, how and why it can change and how that change affects the perspective. That's a very rudimentary observation that usually precedes any form building. I apologize if my criticism is premature but I think your chalk talks were much more informative.

Sandra Salem

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24d

Hi, Ron! I come from formal Art Academy training where art is turned into a science, and at the end of the degree students become very radicalized; some despise it completely, others forget why the do art and lose their mojo. Marshal's approach to this course is to keep us engaging with the formal learning but in a creative, intuitive way. I notice that he would post a vague homework to get the students to do something, with no deep explanation (which makes me feel uncomfortable). Then he would post the actual explanation with a more in depth clarification of what is expected. As a student my first urge is to blame it on the teacher as 'sloppy teaching'. I vent it out, get over it, and just do it. I can see the self awareness value coming out of these: Get to work with almost no understanding. These uncomfortable exercises with open endings turned out the most valuable lessons on critical, self analysis thinking. His approach to this course is challenging to the way all the other courses of Perspective are done, and this why is so valuable to go through it. He talks about it in the Draftsmen Podcast if you need that extra understanding on the logic to the madness. Anyway, I totally understand where you are coming from and wanted to give you a pat on the shoulder. At the same time I trust Marshal and his extensive knowledge on the subject of teaching and learning, and I am in for the ride regardless of how uncomfortable it makes me feel. That means I need to stretch myself and give it try. Sometimes I get nothing out of some homework, other demos are just brilliant and get me excited about tackling a particular approach. Regardless of my internal resistance, I vowed myself to play full in, even when it gets uncomfortable. I hope my sharing helps a little bit with how you are feeling right now.

Stephen Clark

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25d

Hey, Ron! The course builds up your understanding of the concepts behind perspective and how those affect objects, and why. With those in your toolkit, you'll then dive into applying those on a larger scale with a full scene that has complex considerations like vanishing point being determined by the viewer's eye. Think of it as learning to rotate the box before placing it in an environment. When we already have that knowledge as you do, it can be hard to rewind to a time before we knew that and sit through fundamentals. But revisiting those when we get the chance can unlock new understandings for us sometimes. Marshall planned this course to teach beginners in a way that sets them up for a deep understanding of perspective and this is the order he determined. Here's an image that was previously shared on this course page that takes you through the lesson group plan. You can see Eye Level in lesson group 9, leading into the more complex Picture Plane in lesson group 10.

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