my take on the attached Sandro del Prete piece

From Right to Left I worked it out 👨🏻‍🍼 any critiques or recommendations are welcome and appreciated 😌😀!

Hello, here is my attempt at the optical illusions. I did this a long time ago, around when the assignment was posted but I never posted them lol.

I guess the cylinder/torus? thing isn't technically isometric, but I wanted to try the "flip the converging lines" concept to a different shape, and it still seemed to make a similar illusion. I also tried this design I kept seeing that I can only call ambiguous overlap since it creates an illusion of two different facing shapes that share a plane in the middle.

I copied a couple of Marshall’s examples as well as came up with three of my own, then I proceeded to mess around with them by changing which lines overlapped as well as just silhouetting them. It was tricky to come up with them… but fun.

I had a lot of trouble getting my head around this initially but watching the critiques really helped. So I started off by copying some of the successful ones and then played around and added in my own. It was a lot of fun once I got past that mental block!

Life forced me to pause this course but I finally picked it up again. This is my "impossible factory"

Sorry for the image quality. I tried to make a loop of boxes that are constantly getting closer.

I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the challenge of thinking of perspective in this way. I'll definitely be doing more and even though this is not the kind of perspective we use for our usual drawings it still opens up the mind to thinking of perspective and I think certain concepts will carry into the rest of the course. Any critique or comments are always welcome and appreciated!

I probably went a little too hard on the grid-making, but it was fun to reacquaint myself with the tools! This was great practice in working in stages! I feel like I could have/should have applied myself more in the optical illusion part of the assignment… may go back and do something more challenging.

Relaxing and educational, good stuff!

Very interesting assignment where I learnt to slow down and be much more precise with my lines. I struggled at first to draw them with a ruler so after a half page, I drew the rest of them free hand and that helped me understood much better the process of how to draw optical illusion. I think I might make more later on to really get the hang of it!

Assignment completed using both traditional and digital tools. I find the traditional method more enjoyable while using software is a bit faster.

Assignment - Isometric Optical Illusions