Assignment - How I tipped the Arrows

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Assignment - How I tipped the Arrows

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Marshall Vandruff

in The Perspective Course

338

Course In Progress

Assignments 73Lesson NotesDownloads 5

Draw this 3D Model of a Plane focusing on orthos and axes.

Deadline - submit by April 29, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Michael Longhurst

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20h

I did one airplane based on the orthos from the video. Then since I was inspired by the geometric animals in the video, I wanted to try that with my dog. I think I made the head and torso a little more complicated than I should have, so each were pretty different to map out. I used tracings of them to put them together. I’ll have to keep working on it and fill out the rest of the body and try other poses.

Dave Sakamoto

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23h

I imagined a clear box floating above my head and place the things I want to draw inside it.

Ayesha Mahgul

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Ash

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Ooh I like your arrows.

Stevie Roder

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I thought that for this exercise, I would challenge myself by trying out freehand drawing of the airplane in orthographic perspectives. To gain a clearer understanding of the ortho perspectives we have been learning, I searched for a reference photo to help me out. Additionally, as I drew each perspective in this, I decided to incorporate the arrows we had previously used to add a brain-thinking perspective and clarify the concepts. Hopefully, I did a decent job on these; as usual, it was a super fun assignment.

Shefali Garg

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I have no idea why my assignment was submitted four times. I just did it once but it shows four times. sorry for the inconvenience

Stephen Clark

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It NEEDED to be seen 🤣 It's no problem.

Shefali Garg

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I drew the model plane from all four angles, focusing more oh orthos and axis. For me figuring out axis was not difficult but to draw the plane in foreshortened view was very challenging,. I left those for future assignment when I have more understanding of how to draw them accurately in proportion

Minqi He

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Too rough , I apologized

@saschu

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It looks so easy. Still, it took me some time to figure out how to place the back wing. I definitely need to practice this more often

Marc Martí

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I was amazed by this exercise. I thought drawing the plane would be almost impossible, but after doing the orthos, everything became so clear. There are still some areas and perspective navigation tricks to learn, but I'm happy with the results. I'm really excited for the next lessons!

@luvbuzz

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A few planes I did earlier . Going to do a bunch of arrows next

Marc Martí

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This looks so clean!

Shayan Shahbazi

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i love that I can learn so much from the orthographic views. This even completes my perspective understanding and let’s me fly freely and without being scared, I also added my latest digital painting that I used every method Marshal taught us by now and I am pretty satisfied with the way it looks it took +70 hours and I mostly used the blob approach, the cube method, one point perspective and what we learned in melted pancakes I even did it on several stages like thumbnails and samples. I love where we are heading and excited to see what is coming next.

Carlos Javier Roo Soto

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I dared to foreshortening, but I'm ashamed to say I didn't dared enough. Also I don't think I was in the right mindset while doing this. I was thinking more of having this done today to be critique than actually putting conscious effort into applying the lessons here. Also probably switching to the ruler halfway wasn't the best idea, since it change the objective from trying to understand space to precision. Would you guys agreed? Think maybe I should try with the blob approach for a while or keep trying to rough it out right away even with my poor straight line quality? Or a combination of both? What should I been thinking while doing these?

Ash

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The front view looks really cool!

Ishaan Kumar

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I decided to go a bit ambitious and try a real object which is reasonably irregular in shape and form, a replica of the third finger bones of a Utahraptor, from the Smithsonian. It looks a bit messy, especially in the bottom view. Holding it in the orthogonal positions proved to be a bit tedious. I'm certain I've made a mess of the oblique view as well.

Maria Bygrove

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I really like your drawing, you did orthos but with some shading and that gives the bones the dimensions that are usually lost in the straight-on view. Fineliner?

@rupertdddd

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Not sure how to accurately scale each side of the box when I put on the ortho sides...

Ash

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Awesome work!

Maria Bygrove

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OOOh, and something just clicked for me when looking at your assignment. I was admiring how well proportioned your plane looks in the 3/4 view (something I struggled with a lot) and then I noticed the orthos lightly sketched on all the sides of the box - duh! Brilliant work :)

@ashfin613

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Must admit I'm feeling a little discouraged.😞 I'm not sure if I'm heading in the right direction or even improving. I struggle with drawing the aeroplane and getting the wings in the right perspective. When drawing an object from observation I can plan it out to a degree (primative 3D shape of the main object) but but adding other primative 3D shapes to that object is a struggle. I feel like when I'm looking at everyone elses work they all look really precise and gorgeous to look at. I feel like I'm doing something wrong or I'm missing something in the lessons. Any advice would be great.

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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Had experienced the same feeling as you before. What helped me, is to draw lots of primitive forms and try fitting them into the same setting, have them in proximity to each others, overlap or attached. It will be a gradual improvement, but eventually our brain and hand will connect it together intuitively. But pardon my intrusiveness, if this will be addressed and part of the perspective course journey., I believe Marshall mentioned that we are still in the segment of Understanding Perspective, not Mastering Perspective yet, so it's okay for our assignments to be messy and fail a lot. For encouragement, it is helpful to compare your current drawings to your past drawings instead!

Mon Barker

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Orthos to barrel rolls…not sure of my plane sound onomatopoeia….maybe should have been more of a ‘neeee-oaarrrrw’…not too important for the assignment I guess. Dared to foreshorten and ‘diminute’ or whatever the verb is for make smaller in perspective…diminish?

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Super exciting plane drawing! These are amazing

Daniela

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I am not quite satisfied with the results but considering all that was going on outside of this course, I tried my best and shall be happy with that at least

Rachel Dawn Owens

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I love your plane drawings!

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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Quite satisfied with the result albeit the construction lines are quite messy, trying to aim for good enough proportion and it requires quite a focus and time. In the end I like the feeling of triumph after managing to defeat General Airplane of the Perspective 3D Squad ^^

Dedee Anderson Ganda

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arghh after looking at it again the next day, I realized the orho is not flat, the side view of the airplane wings tappered because I took depth into account. My attack is sloppy and now our battle is a tie General Airplane, rejoice!

Maria Bygrove

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Today my heart wasn't quite in it and it shows in the drawing. I'll try to come back to it later but I thought it important to put in the work anyway.

Ishaan Kumar

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I wish I could do such a clinical job when my heart isn't in it

Ishaan Kumar

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Drawing the front, back and side orthos really emphasised the concept of lensing which I'm aware Marshall will be elaborating on later on in this course. The closer I got to the front of the plane, say, the bigger that front plane of the plane kept growing and at the same time, the rest of the body got smaller and smaller. This generally threw off all the landmark point alignments from the other orthos and so, I had to keep my distance in order to make the individual parts relatively 'flat' to each other. Talk about gaining 'perspective'.

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