These were done two days apart, a study of an isometric perspective I found online. I’ve never worked with perspective before. I did it freehand without a grid because I wanted to practice seeing it, but I will try a grid next. The attempt is very bad but I see an improvement and will hopefully continue to improve.

First couple of attempts were less illusions and more getting used to drawing boxes in this perspective. then I tried some actual illusions which were pretty fun. then I decided to see what a human would look like made of isometric boxes.

I enjoyed this assignment because it encouraged me to take the time to study optical illusions and work with some drafting tools that I haven't touched in a while (grade school? middle school?). I now understand that illusions utilize silhouettes, interior lines, overlap, and corners to trick our brains. The ways in which different artists, as we have seen in some of the instructional videos, utilize illusions to tell stories is so cool. I hope to integrate this into my own work. The images I attached include: a) roughs of different shapes and illusions with a focus on understanding how they are constructed, b) ruled pencil sketches of the same illusions using triangles and t-square, c) tracings that include the silhouette and alternate options of each shape depending on internal line selection, and d) some fun with graph paper. The sketches on the final graph paper submission were inspired by an interest in Roman ruins and imagining what an archeological excavation site might look like. Some of the elements got a bit wonky because I was trying to stick to axonometric projection just using the grid, but I sometimes veered towards using perspective just out of habit. Any feedback or thoughts are welcomed. Thanks :-)

I initially tried to work with small tools. After acquiring an 18” Tsquare and 9” triangles I taped down the work on my board and went to town. I found myself reasoning the image as I did roughs to the point of understanding the architecture enough to just construct it. This was after a few miserable tries. What started out as a brain teasing conundrum is now a fun puzzle to figure out. What a good feeling!

Tried the triangle and then constructing something new. It’s very helpful if you draw guiding lines past the length of whatever line you’re currently drawing. Makes it easier to align that edge with another one that is at the other side of the construction.

Here is some of my isometric illusion practice.

Doing this exercise definitely made me think more about using the tools, and it took alot more time than I thought but was still fun to do.

This was a real brian buster.

These were so annoying at fist, I felt physical pain while looking at them and analyzing. Once I started doing my own it was a lot more fun. I was surprised by how much I liked it. So look for the overlaps, explore different points of view and combine them, connect planes in a way that makes no sense spatially. I did everything freehand btw.

This was a lot of fun! Once I got used to a few of the tools and made a big one traditionally, I redid it digitally to see how many crazy overlaps I could add.

These are easy to get lost in. I understand on a surface level how these work, but I am not sure I could create one if asked to do so. (These are both from reference). I enjoyed doing the assignment! .. probably not enough to do them like crossword puzzles as Marshall suggested haha

I'm actually really happy with that little drawing, first time using angled ruler to make perspective so even with it being that small it took a little while but was really fun to make.

I'll buy the tools next time I go to the mall, promise. Also it took a while to figure out how isometric paper works . . . the first one wasn't intended as an optical illusion at all.

This assignment was fun, gave it my best shot with the tools but had to freehand some bits for the final product.

Isometric for the win!

Hi everyone! Here is my assignment on optical illusions. It was a fun and thought provoking exercise for me. I struggled with the two-cuboid illusion until I analyzed the image in Photoshop and realized that it was simply two interconnected cuboids. Sometimes I forget to focus on the main shapes first and leave the details for later.

Here is my first go at isometric sketching

Not my first time drawing in isometric perspective, but doing optical illusion was a first. It was like making wrong tangents on purpose. Last one I did from imagination.

For the first page I did a combo of reference and imagination. Then for the second page I attempted to use isometric perspective to design some floating / flying objects. I can see this perspective being useful to design things and do thumbnails then place the created objects in a linear perspective.

Giff vs Perspective: Round 2 Howdy folks. Going to make my best effort to go through part 1 of the course again before part 2 starts up. Like before I'll post all of my work in the replies, feel free to cheer, jeer or offer any advice! So for my ego and overall mental health I figured we would start off with something very simple and break it down into very, very simple steps. Blue Line Sketch of a box and it's innards, threw that on a light box and traced over it twice to change the boxes positions and then used my T-squre, Triangles and 2b mechanical pencil to make more finished lines. It's okayish I suppose. The tricky part will be placing another box on top of it in it's center.... that I'm not looking forward to... but that's what will be on the docket tomorrow.