The secret is to draw the z axis (depth lines) first. Those will tell you what direction you want to point your object followed by the y & x axis lines.

Aaand the arrows.. I included Peter Han style arrows as well (currently reading the Dynamic Bible as well).

Sooooo finally I redid the boxes exercise and kinda fell into a rabbit hole :'D. 1) First from imagination and with a grid. Learning: Rotated and tilted boxes do NOT fit perfectly into a perfect square. Most of the examples you find online are wrong. (I did it partly wrong here as well and a bit too wide angle). 2) I wanted to know how it would really look correctly and precisely (I need to do this at least once for everything before guessing afterwards) , but couldn't get it done. So I did some research and came across a rotation technique creating ellipses around the boxes and practiced it. 3) Tested it on the cube grid but screwed up with rotating the wrong base cubes. 4) Found another version were tapered boxes were used and tried it. 5) Rested a bit and figured I could use the plan projection beside Blender to create a precise version (it finally payed off yeah!! :D) – of course I did it wrong at first screwing up the vanishing points. 6) Finally got it right. YEAH 7) Added the tilted boxes by adding the rotation technique on top of the plan projection. Final version yeah! (There is probably a way to do the tilt with the projection alone, but this was just too mind bending for me and this way it worked too so whatever) Jesus. Never thought cubes would be that challenging. But I am glad I pushed through :D

I like how drawing each direction feels like we are jumping into a 3d program.

In this assignment, my brain exploded. First, I drew the cubes — I think the vanishing points are a bit exaggerated, but it helped me understand the concept. Then I drew the arrows, and my OCD kicked in when I realized I had drawn them all pointing backward. On page 2, I tried a progression of arrows pointing both forward and backward (vanishing along the X axis). On page 3, I drew arrows freely in all directions and noticed that I struggle much more when they’re truly rotated. After that, I did a progression vanishing along the Z axis, going both left and right. The hardest part was combining those rotations progressively. On page 4, I drew an orthographic view of the plane. I wanted to draw it freehand, but after several failed attempts, I ended up doing an isometric version using a grid underneath. And finally, after going through that whole process, I was able to draw the plane pointing in all directions (page 5). I barely looked at the 3D model — I started with blobs, shaped them as cubes, and then connected the parts. What helped me most was identifying the XYZ axis clearly in the isometric view.

Happy that this assignment has got me thinking about the position and direction of objects in space, relative to the viewpoint! I did struggle with foreshortening the boxes and ended up drawing a whole bunch of them as practice before this page. As much as I tried to be consistent with the angles and proportion (without spending too much time on one page), I definitely need a dose a practice for that too!

Trying to play catchup. I decided to challenge myself to draw the boxes and arrows with the reference from the lesson, and then draw them again from memory. How I drew from memory was by remembering which corner/side and their axes were the closest (which I've drawn in thicker lines); this helped me to visualise the approx angle of the scaffolding/construction box before drawing the arrow. The proportions are definitely not accurate, however as Marshall said, it's ok to eyeball it for now as it's not the main focus. The main focus is to Strangely though, I seemed to have all the up/down/left/right arrows roughly proportional to each other. While the diagonal arrows also have similar proportions to each other, but different to the up/down/left/right haha. Great exercise as always, thanks Marshall!

Proportions are a bit off…

These are my flags ... i think the proportions and measurements comes next. regards

I’m really enjoying this process!! Also realizing the three core cubes in the compass are one, two and three point perspective was a revelation

Although late, I did them !

here are my boxes and arrows facing us directly, to the left and right, above and below, above and to the left and right, and below and to the left and right.

From left to right: Above right, below front, above left, above left again, below right, above right, below left, above right, above left aaand i feel like abovish left. 😅

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. :)