Here's my "Arrows in Every Drirection" and "9 Basic Positions" drawings. I still haven't worked out the Nine Basic Boxes with respect to proportion accuracy, my arrows might improve when I get my head around the boxes. I started using comparison measurement marks on a piece of paper. It got confusind so I started numbering the marks to ensure I was using the correct reference comparisions. I found it easier saying 4 to 5 or 8 to 10, etc, rather than small mark to small mark or big mark to big mark or red mark to red mark. Thanks again for the entertaining video instruction. Any advise as to drawing the 9 Basic Positions accurately freehand would be much appreciated. :)

Definitely takes alot of energy to do this. I find it Really interesting how it boils down to form transformations on a box in perspective. As a beginner people always tell you to draw things in boxes, but knowing how to use the box you created is actually very hard.

I tried playing around with the arrows to improve my intuition and imagination. I'm not sure if I succeeded in my execution, but I'm pleased with the result for now.

Hi! The arrows were a little more tricky than I thought they would be. These are great exercises! Such a good introduction to perspective- I'm really looking forward to the rest of this course. This level of thoroughness and instruction is really incredible. Thank you for putting this course together, Marshall! I'm working actively on overcoming perfectionism and finishing assignments/pieces even if I don't feel they're "perfect." Lots of inner work happening.

Playing catchup, not in linear order! Here is this assignment first. I am very excited to finally get into measuring foreshortening soon. I tried jumping in a little early for the arrows. but some might not be 100 percent accurate! That's ok though, its a learning process!

The arrows were trickier than expected. Especially the Above Left/Right ones. I'm not sure if the difficulty came from the foreshortening or just me doing it wrong (or both). The "improved" Above Left still looks a little wonky to me.

The lessons on arrows look amazing. I'd like to catch up with these, Any chance of postponing the deadline?

Here in this assignment I did look at the boxes and arrows while drawing them. I did not draw from memory. will try to draw from memory at a later stage.

Thank you for arrow lessons Marshall. I am heading the right direction now, and as always I need more time :))

cube everwhere

Drawing the arrow with the box becomes so easy that it almost looks like cheating! Drawing without it is another story, though. I'm not sure if I should aim for that or rely on the boxes. Knowing that there are just nine possible positions an object could be has taken that daunting energy from learning perspective

I purposely drew them arbitrarily and not in the nine positions shown in the video, and honestly it was confusing and challenging trying to figure out if the foreshortening was right, if it was moving towards or away. Again thanks for the excellent lesson…this takes time to practice before you feel confident in which orientation I am trying to draw the arrow, how the box should look, and many more things to keep on practicing:)

Arrows Project! Thanks so much for the demo; fitting the arrows into boxes made them a lot easier to draw in perspective. I drew these from memory but forgot to draw any of the arrows going back in space :(

Reposting as I’ve done more in the meantime. TLDR: still fighting right angles they hate me 😆

Crap. I'm late.. well I only managed to draw the boxes from memory so far, but I am definitely gonna study them as well as the arrows too. Just wanted to make something in time for the critique. Anyway. I didn't use guidelines and reflecting on it, I should have. Note: This is a good warm-up exercise as well for line precision if you add the points with crosses in the middle.

Boxes and arrows! thanks for the videos and teaching!

I feel a bit lost, don't know properly how to do what I am doing. I tried not to overthink it too much, hope it does make sense now. A little.

This was a super fun straight to the point assignment. The one thing I must admit though, I noticed as I was drawing the arrows it was quite challenging on drawing them facing slanted directions but I think I achieved it though. I also noticed I might have not left a bit of room with the arrows with leaving enough spacing with them. I also personally thought to add in some fun directions in there like my curvature arrow on the bottom for good measures. This was a overall fun assignment and another good puzzle to conquer with the arrow direction. I might do a second page n post again tommorow with more fun directions on the arrows. One thing for sure though is when I got to the arrows when I got the top right etc spaces it kind of confused me a bit. hoping I did it right.

I don't know what happened with the first set of cubes/boxes that turn out like this, also with one of the arrows from memory. As you can see, by the time I realize my mistake it was already too late; what probably happen is that my mind wonder off and I just automatically redo the arrow I did just before. I also seem to have troubles with the thickness in some boxes and arrows they get wider as the go away in space, if anybody has any advice (Or you @Marshall Vandruff) to keep in mind to fix these issues freehand, I would appreciated. One more thing, Marshall or anyone, do you have a recommendation of how to use this book (or any other book of this nature) along side this course? I haven't read it yet, but I guess I could start using it now or do you think it would conflict with the curriculum of the course?

Hi there, everyone! I wanted to express my gratitude to Rachel Dawn Evans for her step-by-step breakdown of her process, as well as Professor Vandruff's explanation in his video "How I Tipped the Arrows." I tried following Rachel's method, but I found myself veering into the blob-to-box approach and then adding in some lines to determine perspective as Rachel recommends, as you can probably see from the roughs beneath my assignment drawings. Altogether, I found this exercise challenging, but quite enlightening as well. I have scoured textbooks and the Internet for perspective strategies, but none of them included a seemingly simple exercise like this one, which forced me to analyze the viewpoint from which the observer is looking at an object (whether it be an arrow or a cube). I found it a great way to build an intuition of perspective, and I look forward to Marshall's lessons to come, as well as continuing to view the great work of the community. Thank you, everyone!