I began this assignment by attempting to draw the boxes in the same orientations as the image above. I need much more work on drawing boxes in space given these are lacking. As for the arrows, I did my first page of arrows in random orientations using illustrated vanishing points. I did my second page of arrows using a technique I have been learning on how to guesstimate the vanishing points of a box to better assume the object’s place in space. I did not use the blob approach at all to draw any of the boxes, but I may practice doing so and then extrude my arrows as a warm up exercise outside of this assignment.

I had to stop and rationalize about which orientation of a shape is the correct one to begin indicating lines.

Kept it simple. The second and third pages are my preliminary drawings.

Orthographic illustration of my pencil sharpener.

Rushed through this a bit unfortunately, but still enjoyed the task. Mal-pal = my old high school nickname hahaha!

I used my pencil sharpener as a reference for this assignment. I am noticing how some of my passes are off model. It was admittedly hard not to refer to different sides of the sharpener in order to get a better understanding of the form, but I prevailed!

I did these blobs the other day and am pleased with how I am already noticing form in everyday objects! I was new to this technique and wanted to give it a good try before doing the actual assignment. Blobs are honestly so fun! With these first passes, I wanted to do at least ten of them. I analyzed each one a bit while turning the images into a JPEG and noticed all the errors I made this first go round. Everything is a learning experience!

I can see where I need to improve on my lines for this assignment. I did the giant circle first and then the smaller circles. By the last circle (the one with blue lines), I began getting the hang of things a bit more. Question: I noticed that you did not really ghost your lines during the demo. Does eyeballing a point on the circle rather than ghosting to that point better connect your brain and hand(s)?

I strangely found this assignment to be therapeutic! I sat quietly with my drafting pencils, triangles, and T-square and went to work. I first did an adjoining impossible triangle. I was inspired by a single impossible triangle and tried to make it more interesting by directly joining it with another impossible triangle. The second page shows what looks like a TV on a stand. I found the shape to be interesting in that I could not figure out what it was supposed to be. This one was more of a tip-of-the-tongue image rather than a true optical illusion. The last page includes the letters "E" and "I" which I enjoyed drawing the most. I feel that I did pretty good with keeping the sides of each letter parallel to the other to make the image convincing in the absence of perspective. I had the letters go off the page on purpose to make the image even more convincing.

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