This one was difficult because I drew it so small. It’s also more foreshortened because the grid I printed out wasn’t the right one, I guess. The vanishing points are too close and no way I could’ve drawn it smaller to avoid the distortion.

Anvil 3, drawn before watching the example

Here's my (eventual) attempt.

Delicate lines and wonderful results, thank you for sharing with us ❤️

I think I struggled a bit because the way I designed the anvil wasn't the best. I basically just copied a reference without adjusting the proportions/elements in a way that would work better for me. It really goes to show how important the initial design is... I just kept going with it even though I realized pretty early on just because the focus of this was to practice measuring and drawing inside the cube but I probably should have redesigned it haha Maybe I'll come back around later and do this again. This got easier to do the more I did it but I also did it hard mode by putting the grid on the same sheet just because I wanted to keep everything in my sketchbook haha Love seeing everyone else's work <3

Proportions are definitely a issue for me and also when the perspective is not that dramatic it's hard to stick to the grid.

the whole thing is far to elongated. Never mind, this exercise is great and I am learning a lot

Well, I got the process, just not always the result. 4 of 7 acceptable but I guess I can at least see what went wrong after the event. I think those that went wrong, either went wrong early i.e. the base/legs proportions were too off and did not spot that until finished, or I tried to change things on the fly like lengthening the ‘horn’ to make it look more ‘up close’….which of course does not work when the box/grid is not ‘up close’. Duh.

Here are my anvils. The first three were drawn along with the videos (with a certain amount of pausing…). The last was a redraw without the video. I did the above view on one of the grids from a few assignments ago, but the perspective was really rough. On the eye level anvil I did the vanishing points of the page. I liked the outcome the best, but it did make it harder to keep the lines accurate. On my draw along with the below view, I had vanishing points on the edge of the page, which I think caused more distortion than I was expecting. I definitely messed up when I eyeballed the square in the middle early on, which I think really threw off the base and the horn. So I redrew it with A LOT more measurement early on. I was a lot happier with the outcome, although the curves of the horn didn’t come out as well as I wanted. Great challenge.

At last, survived the last trial of the Anvil Challenge. The contour curves on the head horn are challenging from this angle also I feel like the ellipse base is off. note: sorry for the thin lines!

I know it wasn't an assignment but it was good practice with an unfamiliar form. Checking my work by watching the demos helped point out the many mistakes in my process.

I used the 3D model from the Basics Course so my anvil has a slightly different shape but here are my orthos and the three view points. In the first one, looking from above, I feel like I didn't foreshorten then anvil enough and it looks very elongated. I think the other two are better. Also, it really helped starting with drawing cross-sections of the envelope box (in yellow) - this helped me to see the box dimensional and not just a bunch of crisscrossing lines ;) As I was drawing the eye-level view, I started to wonder: how would one do it in three point perspective? Would the third vanishing point be above or below the horizon and what would it depend on? Or would there be two more vanishing points and the anvil would be distorted as if by a fish-eye lens?

Got to the third vid. think I might not have gone low enough and the anvil looks a little compressed. I read the comment on the previous video about this just being a demo and realized I skipped the " How to draw above and below eye level" video. will work on that over the week. Here is my third drawing of the day. I got to use some of that roll of tracing paper I bought 20 years ago. and never opened thanks to my light box.

I'm not sure if everything is correct, especially the curves on the front and sides of the base, but I loved drawing from this view. It just makes everything seem so much more dramatic.

Does it make sense what I’m trying to do? can anyone tell me if it looks correct, I feel that it might be off, but that could have something to do with how I drew the curves, or is it in the way I connected to corners?