The Perspective Course
Understanding Perspective(40 Lessons )
Intro to Perspective
Materials to Spare You Pain
Depth Tricks and Old Masters
Intro to Forms
Orthos and One Point
Orthos and No Point
Bonus Lessons
Mastering the Skills(0 Lesson )
Learn how orthographic views improve form understanding by removing perspective distortion.
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Rick B
1d
Thought I was not going to make it. Found this little toy at the dollar store.
it looked pretty neat. so here is my Orthos.
Pixel
3d
I had a crazy busy week and when I finally found the time to do orthos, I managed to hurt my hand :(
This is all I have for now. I know the top view is a bit wobbly.
I hope to be able to do more later. This is so much harder then I thought it would be, but it's still a lot of fun to learn!
Pixel
1d
Managed to do some more :)
Shayan Shahbazi
2d
so satisfying to look at, keep up the great work.
Sarah NP
4d
My air purifier machine.
@vange
4d
This took a bit of time and the proportions are not spot on but was quite satisfying to finish.
Shayan Shahbazi
2d
The amount of energy in this paper is remarkable, great work.
Dermot
5d
Marshall, thanks for another brilliant lesson.
Here is my first attempt drawing Orthographic Views of a Bird House.
I did it freehand and got the proportions out of whack !
I think the back view of the house should be above the front view.
Any feedback would be great.
@lemonmerchant
7d
Train
Carlos Pérez
8d
These are the 6 views of my trusty French press
Miqdad (Mick Dad) Ali
7d
hey Carlos, I like your drawings but feel like some might not be in orthographic view, such as the front, side and rear views of the French press. I think this is because I can see the top of your French press and the curve of its base whereas in an ortho view I think these would both just be flat lines. I think maybe looking at your object from much further away might help? for larger objects I personally find that I can't just draw what I see, but instead I have to observe, understand and then put that information down on paper like its a blueprint. I hope this is helpful!
Moka
9d
This course addresses perfectly the issue I ran into the previous course's assignment (specifically the recessing/protruding in the front view). I really got confused back then but everything is crystal clear now. Now back to drawing orthos :) Thanks a lot Marshall!
Peter Abraham Vargas de Franco
9d
the T square was useful for this. The drawings are by hand. 2 hb school pencil on printer paper I think I got the thickness wrong. Does anyone know what I can do better?
@bumatehewok
9d
I am really starting to see the value of this the more I do it.
It Really let's you figure out proportions with less distractions.
Also I am seeing why boxes are so handy.
If you keep the rectangle around your othos you can project them into a box with the same proportions!
The box is your guide and everything that lines up in the orthos projects to the same vanishing points.
It's really neat and actually feels like I am building a process to draw anything.
@ashfin613
9d
Loving this assignment so far. But feel its pretty similar to the last one or am I missing something?
Max Long
9d
The first video was released as free content, whereas this video is a premium continuation of the first video. It has information that the first video did not have. Proko releases some of the videos for free as promotional material to get people to purchase the full courses. The free content on Proko YouTube is what attracted me to proko.com. Good job with your drawings. Cheers!
Dennis Yeary
10d
I use a toy car for the assignment
Mon Barker
10d
Are there situations/subject matter that you cannot draw as orthos? The hand example is a good one - since the fingers are not ever really in a parallel alignment in hand poses, there will always be parts within the hand that are oblique view…and therefore in perspective/three axes…? I guess the room with lots of objects rotated randomly to each other would be another example. How would you approach these when trying to understand the object before jumping into putting into perspective?
Michael Longhurst
10d
I agree with Randy on this. The more complex the object, the more ortho views you might need. I wonder if at some level of complexity you might even do MRI style cross section views. For example if the object had components blocked on the side views, but which the top view didn’t fully explain. I think the example of the hand was more to say the a standard set of orthos could only describe one pose of the hand. A different pose would require a new set of orthos. So with a very large number of potential poses, you would very quickly have an unmanageable number of orthos. However if you’re just trying to draw one pose in different perspectives a set of well selected orthos should give you the information to do that. At least that’s the theory. I’m a long way away from that!
Randy Pontillo
10d
If I'm understanding your question right, it sounds like you might be thinking too granularly about things. Orthos are just here to give us information so we can refer to it later. With complicated objects that are different on every side, like a hand, you would draw more views to show what is different about each of it's sides, one view for each side that is different. This works in reverse too, the treasure chest at 2:20 for example, only has a front, top, side, and oblique view. There is no bottom view, so we can assume its just flat on the bottom, or, if there was a hole busted out on the bottom of the chest, we would draw an ortho to show that.
If your question is instead about trying to keep proportions in orthographic views, you could always simplify the complex forms into simple shapes like we did a few lessons ago (i did my motorcycle), for a hand, you can use rectangles for fingers, which are much easier to draw in proportion :)
Lin
10d
I was wondering that myself and am curious about the answer- but I think that’s why we simplify things to the same basic forms in neutral positions when we seek to understand anatomy or begin a construction.
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