It took a while to get used to the grids. There were so many lines and also it became much more obvious if my own lines were wrong. I started by testing the different grids and at first I thought that I would draw on the entire grid and see the difference. I saw the difference. I realized that it's not a good idea to draw across the entire grid. Either you're getting too much distortion or the grid suddenly doesn't make sense anymore. It was challenging. It took a lot of thinking. I went from being frustrated and wanting to give up to it going okay to more frustration again. Especially after I had done the sharpener and the table. I looked at the other orthos I made in the last assignment. My mind just did not want to make sense on how to draw them. I did notice a few mistakes I made in the orthos but mainly it just became too complex. I ended up simplifying more. This was to focus on proportions, which to be honest I kinda forgot about at first. I was so focused on just getting the basic shapes right. And even when I did try to think about it, I just felt discouraged. But I guess noticing that I'm having trouble with it, is the first step to get better… I kept changing the length in the more foreshorten views. But it never felt right. Either it was to long and when I changed it, it felt to short… One of the views of the table, I did several times. And even if my intention was to foreshorten more. I ended up doing it the same as my earlier attempt anyway. Foreshortening is hard. I did this digitally because that felt most convenient with the grids. I did try to figure out how to draw the grids myself as well. It was not a success. I look forward to learning more about it

A few attempts at each shape.

This really is like doing a puzzle. And it took way longer than I thought, the time just flew by doing this. I was I bit unsure about how to interpreted the orthos. Like is the line you see in the ortho only the visible ones or do you see trough it? I went with that you see trough it because that seams to be the case in the examples for this assignment. But then that introduces a new problem which I noticed in the last one I did (down in the right corner). I don't know how to indicate the carved out parts because the lines that would indicate them share lines with other parts... although I realize now that I probably should have erased the outer lines in the top view where the carved out bits are... which mean the object I did is not actually represented by the first ortho, which was the goal... Although lets say I would have put a floating box under each carved out part than the ortho would be okay and actually be representing this object and then the problem is still there, how to you indicate the carved out parts? I'm not sure if I make sense with this. I had a lot of thoughts while doing this but actually putting it down in writing and make sense of them is not that easy.

Three more orthos.

I did the objects I did in the last assignment. They were all quite square so I also did a jug because i wanted to try something more rounded. I did the first ones with a ruler and t square and the jug I draw mostly freehand.

I was not that motivated for this one. Just writing my name did not feel that exciting to me and I have done some one point perspective drawings before so just doing letters felt too easy. It was not! It required a lot of thinking to get right and it turns out letters are quite good to use because you automatically get a variety of different shapes to practice with. Anyway here is my name where I used a ruler and then 20 freehand sketches.

This assignment is done. I'm slowly improving. You can actually see it when looking back at my first submission (first picture but with added proportion lines) and comparing it to this one. That feels nice. Some of these I feel confused about, for example 14. My feeling is she looking down and we looking slightly down at her but when looking at the relationship between brow and ear I would say we slightly looking up at her? And another thing I feel unsure about is the ones where you looking up just slightly. Should I indicate that tilt in the jaw, even if you don't actually see it in the reference?

Planes!!