Followed Lin’s idea to use the ortho. That helped in drawing along with the video, although I mostly did rely on the instructions. It’s already hard enough to find the right grid, the proportions, all of it. It not perfect, but still… Ta-daaah…. :-)

I loved this exercise because I finally understand how curves are just directional averages of planes affected by foreshortening. And how the axes of the ellipse are the coronal, sagittal, etc. divisions of planes which in layman speak is basically just front, side, top, bottom of the object where the direction changes. But I got lost in the lines some where the bonky thingy gets narrower on all the axes and you have to place the bottom of the bonk on the unseen bottom of the base. I ended up gauging what felt not too bad so there’ll be a discrepancy between what’s there and where things should be. I actually suspect the two parts are misaligned because it overfills the base😆 . The people who said looking up is harder than down were right. I should have used your orthos from the video, instead of just the thumbnail video drawing, that one is on me. Still learned a lot, had fun, survived more challenges than I thought I would

I know that since i put the VPs within the boxed borders, that the perspective would get super distorted, i was ready for that! Whats confusing me is why I'm having trouble with the lower angles in particular, applying the same logic as the higher angles just winds up putting the viewer under the room in space instead of giving them the view an ant would. Is it the small workspace? Is my logic flawed? What am i doing wrong here? ("open original image" with the 3 dots enlarges the image quite a bit if you're having trouble seeing) More rooms in the making-

Ahhh this is going to be an ugly mess, since it’s a lot of experimenting with severe timers without dwelling to fix errors. But I’m posting it to inoculate myself against fear of failure. I started with rooms but I can’t do 50 rooms without withering inside. So I am doing church interiors/exteriors which I love (blame my medieval history degree). Atm testing what low/high HLs feel like. Anything to avoid rooms…but it’s still familiarising me with the horizon level and I feel changed again. going to attempt some irl church drawing soon now I’m braver and can see HLs differently. :3 also attached 2 gifs I found very helpful

Thanks for the critique and lyrical spin on my violin. :3 I’m working on turning torsos now and it’s I think the first time I’m rotating organic complex forms from imagination fluidly. It’s an insane feeling of empowerment. (did I hear tumbling cubes upcoming lesson? That’s a lot of right angles) 😆

Thank you for the arrow and the thinking it creates, Marshall and blondie. I used the ellipse cheat for the violins as I did not know how else to curve that middle area. It's awesome to know it's a well established way.

First video, all well, followed, drew along, perfect. Then second video comes. And my brain was fried. I cannot visualize the physicality of the rotation at all. I even got a box, painted the corners, and I still can't understand what kind of rotation it is. Let's take the front plane. X axis for left to right as we look at it, and Y as upwards downwards as we look at it, and Z front to back. Taking the middle of the front plane as the pivot point, it feels as if they are rotating on y axis initially (hence making the box standing) but then we need another rotation on the z axis, so we can get those marked points to go from the front of the box to its back. But that's 2 rotations, not one. No matter how I rotated a box, I couldn't physically get the points from box position A to box position B on a single, simple rotation. It required a complex rotation, that currently my mind simply gives back visualizing. What am I not understanding?

This week is a strange one. It feels like the beginning of something new - and I’ve taken to (for the first time) drawing household objects like saucers and teapots and pans. But at the same time because there are lots of inaccuracies still, it’s like I can’t express properly this change outwards haha. But something does feel switched on. I really loved this assignment. Sorry for not using grids yet Marshall, I’m having a lot of fun freehanding it, but I will. :3

I've been struggling with the grids. I focused on the box grids as I found they seemed to distort the boxes. I tried to use the grids to draw the 9 Basic Positions but all went to mush so I used the excellent image shown during the Tipped Arrows Critique as a reference. I drew the nine boxes out of perspective, and then altered them into perspective. There was a lot of erasing going on but I wonder if this can be drawn on a grid and which of the 12 grids would it be any other suggestions would be great, my freehand drawing is a touch messy, I'd like to understand how to make it look better proportion wise. It reminded me to