Here is some of the artwork made by kids (age 8-12) based on Escher's 'tesselations', which is part of an Escher project in our little town. The impossible triangles are not traced but drawn step by step and coloured. They love it! Mostly they follow their own ideas; so great to see how creative they are. I thought this is nice to share here.

This was a fun time and a lot more challenging than I expected it to be. Definitely found it necessary to create an isometric grid for myself as a map to then gradually "block in" the pieces of these. Like many others here, I replicated a Penrose triangle and then tried inverting it. This was a surprisingly big mind-bend for me. I then replicated Escher's Waterfall in simple isometric block form. This turned out to be significantly easier than the Penrose triangles. I found that the lined inner edges of the overall structure act as giveaways for where the "illusion" takes place, i.e. a surface switching from one plane to another.

I've just joined the perspective course and I think I've found my little piece of heaven here. I enjoy creating all kinds of handmade crafts as a hobby, and I absolutely love projects that involve uniform, precise elements – perfectly even stitches when knitting, flawlessly straight seams when sewing, and the incredible precision of cutting plotters. Using rulers and triangles for drawing is something like that.

I don't like drawings made with ruler, set square etc. because of their technique touch. But I did these forms like it was shown in the video to practice the tools. Then I overdrew these drawings "freehand".

I used the tracing paper, the t-square, and the triangle protractor for the first time. I tried to make the lines as straight as I could, but you can tell that it's far from perfect. It took a few attempts and it was harder than it looked, but I'm glad I tried it.

I had a go at isometric illusions, I really just don't think I grasped it, I didn't have any drawing tools at the time which would have made it more clean, but in a general sense i just didn't get the concept of isometric drawing and illusions. Any advice?

I thought I’d enjoy this exercise more, but it turns out optical illusions aren’t really my thing. They confused me so much haha

I tried to create my own optical illusion. I think it turned out okay, it almost kind of baits you into thinking it's normal perspective.

All these isometric illusions make me think of mini golf for some reason, so I made a little course. Makes me want to go back and make all 18 holes.

lot of fun, but I have to admit that sometimes it is difficult to trick the eyes to switch from one perspective to the other, while drawing.

Finally got around to finishing this! Pretty fun and it definitely gave me a brain tease and helped me understand how lines, volumes, and planes create the illusion of depth! More than I had expected, at any rate lol. I've got finished variations of 3 illusions (I wasn't being careful about the vellum when I traced over one and wound up drawing over another), and I've got the original construction forms that I traced onto vellum from.

A very simple Isometric Optical Illusion

I only had my pigment liner with me, so I tried to freehand and just explore building the shapes and confronting illusions.

Only had a ruler on hand, but I think this turned out relatively well all things considered.

Tried to understand how a few illusions worked then took a stab at creating my own.

Started redrawing existing examples then made two of my own which are the red big ones :).

I remember seeing this impossible triangle as a kid and being so mesmerized by it. Naturally I had to sketch it for this assignment

Some messy noodling around while I wait for my physical supplies to arrive! Took a surprising amount of brain power but I can feel the concepts unravel with every line I draw. This exercise really highlighted for me just how different seeing perspective is to truly _understanding_ it, a strenuous activity! The subconscious does so much.

Hello! My attempts at isometric cubes and illustions. Got some ideas from previous assignments, thanks. Also any critique is welcome.

It was definitely fun. I'm not happy yet with my "my own" but I feel like I could stay in this lesson forever (and part of me will... I think that I'm going to start an isometric map that will never end), but the show must go on. Want to keep on learning. My journey was first to understand how the Penrose triangle worked. Then create one. Then I played a little bit with isometrics, and finally I created an isometric grid by hand and created another triangle.