Assignment - Labeling Lines for Spatial Understanding

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Assignment - Labeling Lines for Spatial Understanding

Lesson by

Marshall Vandruff

in The Perspective Course

327

Course In Progress

Assignments 46Lesson NotesDownloads 5

ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION: Feel free to submit your assignments in this lesson or the previous one (Assignment - XYZ: The Framework for Drawing in 3D) submissions will be reviewed from both location. - please try to avoid making duplicate posts

Objective:

Understand spatial positioning by labeling and drawing lines from different perspectives.

Key Steps:

Initial Drawing: Using the 3D models provided in this Lesson Group, sketch the models and label lines. Name the lines out loud to reinforce learning.
Re-drawing: After the initial sketch, spin or change the perspective of the object, redraw it, but keep the labels the same. This exercise helps in understanding the object’s dimensions from different viewpoints.
Focus on Lines:
- Straight lines represent simple movements along one, two, or all three axes (x, y, z).

Diagonal lines may require naming multiple axes (XY, YZ, etc.).

Advanced Tip: Start with simple forms like right angles and gradually explore complex forms by drawing and naming lines in relation to a base (floor, wall, or ceiling).

This assignment helps build fundamental skills in visualizing and manipulating spatial dimensions in drawings.

Deadline - submit by April 29, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Anke Mols

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15h

they are the "my dog has fleas of an artist", that's what Marshall said. This little sentence pushed me through, thanks ;-)

Dave Sakamoto

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After much procrastination, I was able to finish this assignment. This was challenging but fun once I got into the flow.

@vange

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Sarah NP

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Another challenging assignment! These are my best examples. I struggle with line dyslexia although I understand the purpose of drawing through. (I apologize if the size is too large when I post. I'm trying to figure out how to change that.

Michael Giff

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"These should be easy".... I accept that challenge! (maybe even resent it a tad?) After 90 minutes I was left with nothing but eraser marks and frustrated scribbles so I kind of took to heart the advise from part one of the lesson and just sketch loosely and let the chip fall where they may lie and keep drawing. Started with a 2h pencil and attempted to draw through the object (quickly abandoned, all it does is show mistakes and more erasing... if you guys ever launch an erasing course I feel I would excel at it greatly!) then I would lighten the lines with a kneaded eraser and draw over them with a 2b lead without tools (oh t-square, triangles and isometric view, I miss thee!) These took about 30 minutes per page. Try to post more up tomorrow.

Ishaan Kumar

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12h

You've put in the work by trying to tackle almost every object and from multiple angles. It's easy to get discouraged by not getting it perfect or exact, but that's the end goal of this course. Let's be easy on ourselves for not knowing the thing we're here to learn. We'll only get better from here on!

Michael Giff

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Can anyone tell me why it looks like I should see the top of the second step but in the example I'm drawing from you can't?

HAK24

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Hello Marshall… please We want more practical lessons and step-by-step application.I tried to draw them but there are some obstacles!.

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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Tried to rotate the airplane wings downward, but I chose such a foreshortened angle that my brain melted from the confusion doing this, its a nice experience regardless

Mal

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I had to stop and rationalize about which orientation of a shape is the correct one to begin indicating lines.

Ishaan Kumar

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Here's my attempt at this exercise. It felt daunting at first but it was a good opportunity to revise the blob method, strengthen freehand straight lines, eyeball the DCFOA parameters, get a hang of maintaining the volume and proportions of an object at different angles and also, revise the Cartesian coordinate system ;)

Michael Giff

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Really nice job on the chair. Spent an hour with it and bupkis on my end XD

@dantheanimator

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hand drawn plane

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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you have neat yet homey lines!

Spyridon Panagiotopoulos

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I do not know why, I got stressed to do these all at once, and then I realized I have half a month more for the deadline...Oh well

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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on the bright side, you managed to push through these number of drawings! You should feel proud!

Darren

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Dennis Yeary

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i did these free hand for the most part

Blondie the good

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I think I’ve got the gist of the assignment,but the proportions are all over the place(at least in the initial forms),i also made a few silly mistakes,like drawing an octagon instead of a hexagon,constructing hexagon in a wrong way,getting too caught up in different angles rather than focusing on understanding their axes and so on.... I could’ve been a little less messy with the line work and overall presentation 😅 That said,I really enjoyed the assignment nonetheless! 😁

Raitlin

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First page (hopefully more later). Since there was no mention for keeping it super accurate, as an extra challenge, decided to freehand it from imagination. Then, I quickly came to the realization that I'm not sure how to draw a believable-looking hexagon without a compass; even more so if it's foreshortened. Best I came up with is a square with a circle inside, then equilateral triangles, but I'm not sure how you'd measure that accurately even with tools when foreshortened.

Melanie Scearce

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This is how I would eyeball it semi accurately, by reflecting along the x axis. Hope that helps!

Raitlin

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Han

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Took my time to draw all of the object multiples times :)

Sita Rabeling

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Hopefully without faults at last - I’ve been correcting a lot 😅

Sita Rabeling

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I added 2 other pages with more objects in boxes + XYZ's. (to keep it all within 1 post....) Most of the time I spent with drawing boxes around the objects. For me the most difficult part. I definitely trained some muscles there, so I’m happy with that. First I puzzled with the help of Procreate, tracing the object and then finding the box, then drew it all over again freehand on paper. The colours I added with Procreate though, to keep the original drawings clear - I hope it’s all readable.

Michael Giff

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Oh dear... I'm kind of intimidated by this one and have not done a whole lot of drawing. Can anyone explain how these are being set up? Or should I not worry about it at my level and just sketch and label... despite them being an abomination to accuracy and proportion?

Lin

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For the hexagon, I kinda deconstructed what Marshall did and drew a box around the form using the edges of the hexagon to discover the 3 axes which give you the box. Then I divided the planes of the box with diagonals to find the halfway point for the hexagon, and finally just connected them. I found the other side by using the parallel axis lines along a particular axis. I hope this makes some sense, I tried but it’s a lot of lines so I apologize if it’s confusing. It’s simpler than it looks to try, much harder to get perfect (intuiting the VPs), but not a hard system in itself, just lots of lines. Basically sussing out the 3 axes and diagonals then a lot of connect the dots. So you were right to look for VPs, we just don’t need to find them for the slanted xz lines because discovering the centre point with the diagonals method give us the result quicker. The diagonal method is a reliable way to get halves or thirds or more in perspective where halves for example get smaller further back and don’t look like exact halves. I use the same methods for the shape that shall not be named, I try to find the axes in common with a box, and start there. For the second image in your post, that will come up when we begin to do accurate proportions I think so I wouldn’t worry about that yet. Rn I’m just estimating some parts from the diagonals and axes method above.

Josh Drummond

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Took some notes and then changed the perspective. I'm also working on drawing this toy car from memory while changing the angle.

Lin

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10d

Here is my most recent stuff, as well as the assignment work I posted in the previous video which is a few days old, more carefully done, yet perhaps less confident as I am noticing mistakes. If anyone else is having trouble with intuiting perpendicular angles from all sort of viewer positions like I am, the transparent forms found on Amazon are a lifesaver - you can look through them to see the way axes progress in any type of rotation or tilt.