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In this lesson, you'll explore the nine basic positions from which objects can be viewed, including ortho view and angles to the left, right, above, and below. You'll learn how to add depth to your drawings using the Z axis, transforming flat shapes into three-dimensional forms with thickness. We'll examine how angles change with perspective—how right angles become acute or obtuse depending on your viewpoint. You'll also practice drawing arrows in perspective to indicate movement toward or away from the viewer, a vital skill in storyboarding. By working with blocks and arrows, you'll build a strong foundation in perspective drawing, preparing you for more complex subjects.
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To build your foundation:
- Draw these blocks and arrows and name their positions (e.g., above left, below right).
- Notice the direction of the X, Y, and Z lines in each position.
- Practice drawing them from memory.
Deadline - submit by April 29, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Not super beautiful, the proportions are a little off, and I erased a lot so it's not very clean, but I'm trying to be less of a perfectionist when it comes down to elements of the assignments that still have to be covered in future lessons.
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I think these are looking really good! The South West arrow is the only one I see with a little divergence. For these kinds of assignments, I like seeing the construction, and thought process on the page, and over all I think your approach was pretty clean and controlled! If you bumped up the final line weight for each arrow a little bit, you'd be surprised at how much the construction lines seem to disappear into the background. Keep up the good work!!
Here are my arrows. I feel like the next lessons about twisting and turning them will be very helpful. But for now, heres the regular ones! I feel pretty confident with it (besides a few screw ups that I didnt fix)
This was super difficult for me. I definitely can identify a weakness in my ability to rotate objects in 3D space. I'll be doing many more pages of these.
My 8 arrows. Using a ruler really allows the me focus on angles and proportions, rather than having to worry about line quality.
Some arrows in perspective. I wanted to start twisting them and contorting them to make more expressive arrows, but that might’ve been going off on a tangent, so I’ll do that outside of the assignment :)
This is the result of several attempts. My challenge with the arrows is that the projection from the tip of the arrow is not always clear. I guess i need to form the sagital plane or coronal and i need to look at the other corresponding height. I still cannot translate arrows as i wish from my head to paper, I suppose is because i need to practice cubes more.
Freehanded the boxes the arrows from memory. This was a nice little exercise, I had to observe angles and try to carry them over in my memory.
One copied with a grid, one guest in floating space, one set of ortho's and some squishy attempts on moving the arrows around in space! Onward to the orthographic' and more squishy boxy attempts! :)
i was about to lose my mind because i didn't understand how i was supposed to draw the box. But you made it so easy fro me . Thank you so much. I still don't know what foreshorting is but at least i know what to do
I drew a bunch of boxes and then turned them into arrows. I think I made them too thick for the most part. Not sure how many I should make before moving on. I tried to do drastic foreshortening to challenge myself.
I followed the instruction of Rachel Dawn Owens in the comments (the first comment when set by popularity) and it was really helpful. Tried a curved arrow too.
Have you just started the perspective coarse. You are getting through the assignments at an impressive rate
beau travail, tu as mi beaucoup d'effort dans cette exercice et tu la fait jusqu'au bout, cependant je remarque que tu ne fait pas tous les lignes de constructions de tes cubes , comme si on regardait avec des rayons x. Il est important de voir les lignes à l'intérieur des cubes , il vont t'aider à augmenter ta précision et que tu puisse te convaincre qu'ils sont en 3d, c'est la clé de la compréhension du dessin de perspective. Continue tu est sur la bonne voie.
Somehow I got lost in this exercise. The more arrows I did, the more I wanted to do! A deceptively easy exercise and worth coming back to more times.
My first mistake was trying to squeeze arrows into cubes. They got too thick and didn't communicate the directions clear enough. It was also very hard to place the arrow footprints in the cubes as I wanted them thinner than the cubes. It felt like an ineffective extra step. Once I did more rectangular boxes, their widths the imagined arrow widths, the exercise got easier and the results better. This made me ask the question whether everything should be fit into a cube; maybe rectangles is way better for some objects?
