Twisting forms is so much fun! In the twisting arrow demo, Marshall placed the three boxes far enough apart so that they don't overlap. I wanted to see what would happen if you foreshorten a similar setup so that they do overlap. I started ideating for this but then went a bit overboard! Still, it seems like a fun puzzle to return to some time.

Happy that this assignment has got me thinking about the position and direction of objects in space, relative to the viewpoint! I did struggle with foreshortening the boxes and ended up drawing a whole bunch of them as practice before this page. As much as I tried to be consistent with the angles and proportion (without spending too much time on one page), I definitely need a dose a practice for that too!

I can see why this exercise is good for thinking about direction of lines in space! I think I'll get the most value from here by consciously thinking about it whilst sketching and drawing.

This challenge was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it! It was interesting to try and make increasingly simple choices, whilst trying not to sacrifice the character. Here's my first attempt:

Here's my attempt at this exercise. It was great practice for thinking about things three-dimensionally! Putting the plans into perspective really made me realise what parts I hadn't fully thought through in the plans.

Wow, so much to think about with this assignment and critique! It's exciting to see all these ways to improve!

I had a lot of fun with this one, I'd love to come back and do more some time!

I've had some project deadlines recently, so I'm just now getting to the latest batch of assignments. I'm still working through this exercise, but here's what I have so far! When I first started trying this approach, my drawings felt a bit stiff. Something wasn't quite clicking. So I thought I'd go back and restart by trying something simpler, to try and become more comfortable with the tools for this task. I tried to build individual forms, and try some variations including: • Height. • Rotation. • Curving. • Tapering. • Crossing the horizon line. • Twisting. • Two forms bumping / interlocking. • Connecting two planes of different shapes. I like to sketch in quite a scribbling manner, with slower phases also to try and carve out forms or details. I also tend to build in layers as I move things around and close in on final decisions. (My kneaded eraser is seeing some work lately!) To move onto a compositional stage of this exercise, I've started to try and fold this type of form building into this sketching process, in particular the slower phases. Despite a rough start, I'm really enjoying this exercise, there's a lot to explore when playing with combinations. I'm looking forward to cleaning up some sketches before moving to the second part of the assignment. Thank you Philip for sharing this appraoch!

Putting some more practice in over the weekend!

Thank you for the demo, it feels so well timed! It's really interesting to see what we're currently learning extended in this way.