Assignment - Arrows in Every Direction

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Assignment - Arrows in Every Direction

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Course In Progress

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!

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Tori Tempo
Nassim A.
Kassjan (Kass) Smyczek
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. 😅
Dermot
21d
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. :)
@bumatehewok
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.
Jeremy Johnson
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.
Leil Yaghmaei
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.
Espy
22d
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!
@dooby
22d
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.
Dermot
22d
The lessons on arrows look amazing. I'd like to catch up with these, Any chance of postponing the deadline?
Shefali Garg
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.
Pamela D
22d
Thank you for arrow lessons Marshall. I am heading the right direction now, and as always I need more time :))
Minqi He
22d
cube everwhere
Marc Martí
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
Carolina Pachon
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:)
Amani Noor (Amu)
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 :(
Melanie Scearce
Love the layout!
Anke Mols
22d
Amu, its so impressive how you make something so "boring" so much aesthetically pleasing. wow.
Lin
23d
Reposting as I’ve done more in the meantime. TLDR: still fighting right angles they hate me 😆
Lin
22d
Oops, sorry about the dog x.x
Sandra Süsser
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.
Maria Bygrove
I kept staring at this trying to figure out what was wrong and turns out nothing is wrong, it's just that my mind was expecting all the forward facing planes to be white while in the bottom row it's the top facing planes ;) Nice boxes!
Roderick Taylor
Boxes and arrows! thanks for the videos and teaching!
Anke Mols
23d
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.
Sita Rabeling
It's like they're floating in space. I like it :)
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