I decided to go a bit ambitious and try a real object which is reasonably irregular in shape and form, a replica of the third finger bones of a Utahraptor, from the Smithsonian. It looks a bit messy, especially in the bottom view. Holding it in the orthogonal positions proved to be a bit tedious. I'm certain I've made a mess of the oblique view as well.

Today my heart wasn't quite in it and it shows in the drawing. I'll try to come back to it later but I thought it important to put in the work anyway.

Drawing the front, back and side orthos really emphasised the concept of lensing which I'm aware Marshall will be elaborating on later on in this course. The closer I got to the front of the plane, say, the bigger that front plane of the plane kept growing and at the same time, the rest of the body got smaller and smaller. This generally threw off all the landmark point alignments from the other orthos and so, I had to keep my distance in order to make the individual parts relatively 'flat' to each other. Talk about gaining 'perspective'.

Here is my swing at this exercise. The first thing I noticed was feeling unsure about making parallel lines converge and to what extent. This was especially the case for the dead above and below angles. The second was how difficult it became to maintain volumetric consistency within the same set of angles. Invariably edge lengths and angles would shorten or lengthen and this would be the case with thicknesses as well. But I'm sure that with the right level of 'Marshalling', Mr Vandruff will make a soldier out of me yet 😉.

"These should be easy".... I accept that challenge! (maybe even resent it a tad?) After 90 minutes I was left with nothing but eraser marks and frustrated scribbles so I kind of took to heart the advise from part one of the lesson and just sketch loosely and let the chip fall where they may lie and keep drawing. Started with a 2h pencil and attempted to draw through the object (quickly abandoned, all it does is show mistakes and more erasing... if you guys ever launch an erasing course I feel I would excel at it greatly!) then I would lighten the lines with a kneaded eraser and draw over them with a 2b lead without tools (oh t-square, triangles and isometric view, I miss thee!) These took about 30 minutes per page. Try to post more up tomorrow.

Here's my attempt at this exercise. It felt daunting at first but it was a good opportunity to revise the blob method, strengthen freehand straight lines, eyeball the DCFOA parameters, get a hang of maintaining the volume and proportions of an object at different angles and also, revise the Cartesian coordinate system ;)

I never thought that one top view could be so many different 3d shapes!

Hello folks, Here's my submission. Before I got started, I thought I'll draw out the orthos first and then make the oblique view but I got so paranoid about potentially getting the oblique view wrong in terms of receding lines and vanishing points that I went the other way around.

Here are 2 attempts at freehanding a Formula 1 car model and a smartwatch. I foolishly went for the Formula 1 car first because Darth Maul had once said that 'pain is the greatest teacher'. It was indeed painful to see the multiple scratchy lines trying to look for the right curve flow while maintaining orthogonal consistency, so much so that I had to do it over 2 days. The smartwatch was more tricky than I expected, especially since I had to physically hold it for the front and back views, and because the length of the straps meant either the strap end closer to me would defocus while the watch body would stay in focus, or vice versa. Also, the F1 car was the right size to be a 1:1 model (it ended up being almost exactly the length of my pen), while figuring out proportions for the miniaturised smartwatch was more of a challenge.

As the main assignment, the one involving rulers and set squares, I decided to go with the band logo that got me revering band logos in general, the Metallica logo. The actual logo has letters rotated in 3 point perspective but for this one I decided to extrude just their flat version. I tried to be use exact angle measurements for a while but I quickly ran out of patience and just eyeballed and winged the last 20% or so.