Can definitely see the value of looking for isometric shapes and optical illusions yourself to try and replicate what you can. This certainly put me through the motions of finding a way to use the tools for myself
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I guess the cylinder/torus? thing isn't technically isometric, but I wanted to try the "flip the converging lines" concept to a different shape, and it still seemed to make a similar illusion.
I also tried this design I kept seeing that I can only call ambiguous overlap since it creates an illusion of two different facing shapes that share a plane in the middle.
I copied a couple of Marshall’s examples as well as came up with three of my own, then I proceeded to mess around with them by changing which lines overlapped as well as just silhouetting them.
It was tricky to come up with them… but fun.
I had a lot of trouble getting my head around this initially but watching the critiques really helped. So I started off by copying some of the successful ones and then played around and added in my own. It was a lot of fun once I got past that mental block!
I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the challenge of thinking of perspective in this way. I'll definitely be doing more and even though this is not the kind of perspective we use for our usual drawings it still opens up the mind to thinking of perspective and I think certain concepts will carry into the rest of the course. Any critique or comments are always welcome and appreciated!
I probably went a little too hard on the grid-making, but it was fun to reacquaint myself with the tools! This was great practice in working in stages! I feel like I could have/should have applied myself more in the optical illusion part of the assignment… may go back and do something more challenging.
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Study examples of optical illusions in isometric perspective, replicate them, and then experiment with creating your own.
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