Assignment - Isometric Optical Illusions

I have thoroughly enjoyed becoming more familiar with the tools. The triangles I bought may be a bit too big, but I've managed to make them work. (They're 8".) It took two tries to replicate Marshall's example. One really needs to be very exact with lines, corners, etc.! Will keep exploring these illusions, I'm excited to increase my skill in this area.

Hey everyone! I'm new to this course and let's say I was taken aback by this assignment being an isometric illusion one! I thought it was a bit boring since I want to draw I perspective but oh boy as soon as I started to get into it I was humbled! It seems easy but it really wasn't, at least for me, I even took the 'impossible waterfall' as a reference and then started to think about how it would look with rectangular shapes instead of a platform and pillars, and ended up doing something else. I understand why Marshall would put this as an assignment because I really found myself thinking about the shapes in space and I can't really say I have it totally figured out but I want to move passed the for now.

I finally did my assignment for this lesson. The first 2 images are from november when we just got the assignment. I was really excited and wanted to go artistic and make a big illustration but gave up. When I came back to the perspective course a few days ago I decided to analyze an image I found here in the chat. Had to really look at how hexagons work and realize I can’t just work with the squares on my paper and I have to use the right angles to make it work. I changed 2 small things from the refference where I think the creator of the image made a mistake. I am really hoping to catch up with the course!

These are tricky!

Went the analytical route and followed the process: 1. rough it out 2. clean it up and simplify with a straight edge on tracing paper 3. copy outside contour on tracing paper 4. duplicate outside contour and tweak the insides I found using my new tools in step 2 difficult. I couldn't decide if I wanted to freehand step 3 or use a ruler, so I did both. I was able to put my outer countour tracing under my sketch page to duplicate it. Then I played around with some inner shapes using pencil before going over it with a micron (my preferred medium). It was hard to decide on line width. I tried to make things that were closer thicker. Hopefully we will spend more time on some of that decision-making. Ultimately, it was great to study a master then create something of my own—instead of only copying. Time flew by, which must mean time well spent!

This is my second round on this ,most of em were replicated by some of the comments. remembering to first sketch and then follow the guidelines

Hello, I found some images online, I printed them out and had to trace the outline of first one (the arrows) to get my head around the angles. Then I tried it again and played with it until it began to work out and make sense to me. I could have done another final version to clean it all up. The hexagon, again I printed out and used as a visual reference. I went through a couple of false starts trying to figure out how to make it all work with the segments. I finally realized that if I just understood the length of the distance from corner to corner, I could create three lines, one central line and two bisecting lines at the correct angles off the central axis, and it worked. From there I could use the angles to work off of and just kept referring to the reference to make sure it looked right. This took me a long time though, my brain doesn't always see what's in front of me right away, it requires patience, but the end result was pleasing to me. I enjoyed this exercise.

Playing with isometric drawing in procreate

Still playing with mind-bending shapes - so much fun :)

Ins become outs, and outs become ins. This assignment was incredibly difficult, but using my brain juice to tinker around and eventually figure out how the illusions worked was incredibly enjoyable. I'm sure I overcomplicated myself in a few parts, but that's totally alright as nobody is perfect! I also did another illusion that I found by searching the internet, but overall I believe I did pretty fine on this assignment.

At first I stared at my screen like 👁️👄👁️ where do I start? But once I put pen to… Procreate, I got really stuck into the problem solving of this lesson. I used the isometric grid in Procreate and inspired by Maria Bygrove’s work, animated it.

This was fun. I used the isometric grid in Procreate to help me. Now that I've got the gist of it a bit, might try again free-handing.

Used my gridded ruler to to keep the angles some what consistent . Really cool assignment

Hermès m'y own attempt. The trick is that I am not sure that I can do it without a reference... A long journey of learning I guess...

This is the image I used. I know i could've used a ruler but I couldn't find mine so I tried using another paper to somewhat measure what they're supposed to be

Didn't initially intend to make this a complete artwork but I thought it was cute. The other image is the measured out base drawing.

Any words of advice on how to conquer this jerk? It's been weeks and I still can't get it to go. How would you break it down into simple steps so you don't get lost in a mess of lines? I've tried measuring, I've tried just drawing the silhouette and just end up with a great big mess of lines.

These take a lot of time! So I created a distilled and small one on the left. I tried to create the smallest one I could while keeping the grid and the cubes.