I used the templates provided. The third one stumped me for some reason, and indeed as I’m submitting this I just noticed a mistake on the second tier. I didn’t include its depth as it wraps around the cube.

I drew a bottom, top, front, and side view of my cauldron mug — except I left the felt pads out (appalling, I know! But I don’t want the wood to get scratched…) Maybe nobody would’ve noticed. Anyway, it’s freehand so the circles are a bit wonky and I’m not too pleased with how the legs turned out in the bottom view. The 3/4 view is not really accurate but I didn’t use the photo as reference, that’s just to submit here.

I didn’t account for how much room I’d need to fit “F•R•I•E•N•D•S”, so I turned it into a question… Also, for “Frasier” I originally aligned the top edge of the letters to line up with the “F” as they diminished, but since “F” is taller than the others it didn’t look right. I then remembered to measure from the ground level of “F” instead and corrected it.

Went over the last assignment with tracing paper.

Tried to set a timer for myself, but I still went over and spent longer on it than I probably should’ve.

Followed along to the demos.

Image one (pencil box): The top left drawing was my first attempt at copying the picture. The one on the right was my second attempt as I was not happy with the first; I felt I hadn't pushed the foreshortening quality of it enough. The bottom three were made up. I notice I didn't keep the proportion of where the lid and the bottom meet consistent. On some it seems to be directly halfway along the box (when in real life it's not). Image two (tissue box): The ellipses were drawn freehand and I struggled to imagine how the tissue paper on the bottom right one would look. Image three (figurine): Maybe I got a bit ahead of myself here. Lots of round shapes instead of keeping it more boxy... for the far right one I found myself forgetting of thinking about the figure as "contained in a box", which lead to me thinking of the platform it stands on as something separate instead of as a part of the box in which the figure would be contained... so I couldn't quite figure out how the beveled edges would look.

I chose 8 artworks from the 20 I submitted for the “Collecting Masters” assignment. Of all the tricks, my favourite is overlap. Image 1: John Paul Leon. Right: Lots of overlap. Most of the foreshortening comes from the fence on the right, as well as a bit from the body on the floor. Looking at it now, perhaps I could've rated convergence a bit higher... Image 2: John Paul Leon, Pepe Larraz, and Rodolfo Damaggio. Right (upper): Most of the tricks seem maxed out in this one! The way the bodies (notably the heads) diminish as they get further away... lots of convergence with the figures and buildings... all those windows! Foreshortened arms... lots of overlap. And the buildings fade to white as they go down and fade to black, merging with the night sky, as they go up. Image 3: Paul Felix and Jean Giraud. Left (upper): The leaves diminish in size quite a bit. Not too much converge, I don't think? It's a bit harder to tell with something organic, especially if the tree is already twisting and turning in different ways. Lots of atmosphere.

I used a compass (for the first time) to draw the circles and then used a rapidograph for the 45° and 90° lines. I also went over them a few times. For some of the lines I started from the upper half and drew down to the lower half, and for others I reversed it. After drawing the 45° lines I proceeded to divide the quarters into thirds, which, because the lines were done freehand, are not accurate thirds. But I still found it difficult to divide it into thirds. It’s something I hope to get better at; eyeballing measurements. I don’t know if I should’ve focused on just drawing straight lines from point to point or focused on accurately depicting 15° increments regardless if the lines were a bit wobbly. I think I found myself focused more on the former.

I copied a couple of Marshall’s examples as well as came up with three of my own, then I proceeded to mess around with them by changing which lines overlapped as well as just silhouetting them. It was tricky to come up with them… but fun.