The two untimed ones I have no idea how long they took, but probably not that long because my 25 minute one, I felt was ‘done’ after about 18 minutes. I continued fiddling and cleaning up and I’ve probably made it look better but I now realise I’m probably quite slapdash in my approach and I need to just chill and go with the rendering process. It definitely feels like I’m ‘done’ and then trying to fix what I should have just taken more care over in the first place. I felt very frustrated with my scratchy cast shadows in particular. Another thing i noticed was the moment I had only 10 then 5 minutes I felt such a need to rush I suddenly couldn’t even draw a circle anymore, so will definitely be practising more of these timed ones and trying to stay calm.. I also spent too much time in the shadows I think, and my half tones were probably too light and sloppy.

This assignment makes me feel so ridiculously excited I feel like an idiot! I can't wait to get started. Interestingly I felt frustrated by one of the first assignments where we had to simplify a blocky object and draw it in lots of different angles from imagination because all my drawings came out kind of the same just rotated. It looks like that was basically the idea! Although to be fair I did choose a very simple object.

Ooh I'm excited. I never really understood the core shadow and why it's darker and only in some places and this really cleared things up for me! Thanks

Attempted Ortho no.2. I made a loose grid and then made all my 3d views (is that the term?) from 1 ortho that I popped into my grid. I did end up colouring otherwise all my lines got very confusing and it was hard to spot errors. In the pancakes video they mentioned ‘tangencies’ where lines meet - I have found that where lines meet in the picture where they wouldn’t in 3d a real throw off for errors! In my next one I’m going to try and make more lines that won’t connect with others. Made a slide to show my process. I’m pretty sure in hindsight my original ortho in perspective was off, which didn’t help, so I will try and be more exact in the early stages next time.

I found these very challenging, my brain has been broken 😆

Are you trying to kill us Marshall?? The video made these look fun. I ran into a lot of problems, so submitting part 1 early to seek help from the community! I tried to do it without using vanishing points - big mistake no.1. I retried the worst one with vanishing points, but none of my bits look like cubes! Is there an easy solution to this, or is it back to… draw 9999 boxes and they’ll start to look better? I might do my next one using isometric angles just to try and make it look understandable, but feel like maybe that is just cheating..? Maybe I should try and do both.

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!

I found this gold dust this morning! I've just had a brief look but feel like it's related to the orthos assignment so will try and study it... Wanted to share in case any one else is into this kind of thing and hasn't found it yet! https://www.traditionalanimation.com/mickey-mouse-model-sheets/

Okay this one nearly killed me. I'm going to have another go at the back ortho because I tried to do lines to describe the shapes and then I realised afterwards I probably should have done cross contours to describe the forms... But I'd already used ink and it would have been a mess. I guess it's already a mess but nevermind!