I worked from the homework done by other students. Going directly from the optical illusions was very confusing. I am still fascinated by the cube and the star and how the silhouette can stay the same while the point of view changes and the form depicted may or may not be physically possible. Still plugging away, still confused, but getting slightly less confused each time that I try again. Elementary one-point and two point perspective--even with opening doors and stairs seemed somewhat understandable, but this is blowing my mind. Who knew I could get so much entertainment out of drawing the frame of a cube?

Thank you for all the critiques Marshall! Especially reiterating the part about being messy not being a big deal; but rather the mess helping us to "separate the understanding from the execution". From this, I realised that I was afraid to do the 'clean-up' and draw a better straight-edge version. I'll strive to make the effort to conquer this fear in future assignments; and the tip about drawing lightly first may help me get over the fear too. Mistakes are critical in the journey to improvement (even if it means to (painfully) start over again) :D

A little late to posting but here are the notes I took from the critique. Some roughing out to understand the figures and then some more complete sketches. These type of illusions turned out to be pretty fun and addicting to figure out.

This was a great critique. Thank you Marshall. I haven't done any of the assignments yet, but was hoping to have a play with this tomorrow. Now it feels a little like cheating. Learned a lot from this!

I truly had the funniest time coming up with my own Isometric Illusion with this assignment, Marshall. I learned a lot from this video as you reviewed it. I am planning on practicing more during the weekend for fun. It truly was a fun exercise.

My image got used for this video. I got about 3 seconds of screen time. AWESOME!!. It was not an original design. I found the image on a google search.

Thanks for the critique, Marshall! To clear some things up on my end, this exercise ended up being accidentally freehand for me. I wasn't properly thinking of the isometric forms being made up of specific angles. Here, I mostly eyeballed the parallel lines of each edge, drew it out, and then used a regular ruler to keep my lines straight; and the results are definitely telling, haha. I think afterwords,looking at the later videos about using the rulers and graph paper, and now this video, I have a better understanding of what this exercise was meant to teach. I really appreciate the critique!

If you care about Escher, Bruno Ernst's books expound on how he created the illusions, much more than ESCHER ON ESCHER. IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS is a collection of four separate books in one volume (three of them by Ernst) that is a treasure of Escher insights as well as excellent reproductions.

I never expected my work to be critiqued! I appreciate it a lot and thank you for your words of advice. It makes me want to practice and get better that much more!

Hi, Marshal and group! After watching this critique many times (due to my iPad spontaneously replaying videos on an opened page); I finally grasped the objective of these studies with optical illusions! I wanted to share my visual thinking and analysis based on the last shape Marshal shared (the outline one that Stepka and Mike worked on. It is a David's star rotated 90 degrees on the side, with added thickness. I elevated it from a regular square grid graph paper, which presented its own set of challenges and visual mischiefs. After playing with the shape, I have a better grasp of where we are heading with the forms.

'Indiana Jones 3' and 'The Last Jedi' also come to mind for their use of optical illusions.

Ah some nice and inspiring examples of profundity in there @Marshall Vandruff 😁 👍 I’m sold. Great point (and challenge) to visualize the envelope or see out from centre with the star example. My brain will hurt.

Hi Everyone! Can someone please tell me where the assignments are given? I can’t find that!

Awesome talent!

Thank you for your time... and pronouncing my name correctly! I'll be sure to keep the rough and more finished work separate next time.

Thank you to responding to my question Mr. Marshall! This was a really fun project to do, I had a lot of fun with it and even want to keep going at it and make more shapes and illusions of my own, it's hard to come up with them, but looking at what the others have done is definitely inspiring as a starting point to then develop into your own, and also a good intro at just understanding forms in a more 3d environment. Looking forward to the next project!

Definitely, it is full of joy seeing our peers make mind blowing magnificent puzzles with simple isometric blocks. Thank you so much for the time that you spend to teach us. Very Excited to see what is coming up next.✨