Assignment - Orthos to Invented Form
Assignment - Orthos to Invented Form
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The Perspective Course

Understanding Perspective(72 Lessons )

Assignment - Orthos to Invented Form

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Assignment - Orthos to Invented Form

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Your assignment is to take a top-down plan (which only shows width and depth) and turn it into a 3D form by inventing the height. You can be creative—stretch, shrink, or flip parts, and even make pieces float. This is about training your brain to think in 3D.

  • Use graph paper or the plan templates in the downloads tab to make it easier on you
  • Feeling ambitious? Make up your own plans
  • You can also draw side and front views to better understand the form
  • Keep the shapes right-angled for now (no curves or bevels yet)

The main goal is to explore how different elevations can turn the same plan into many unique 3D shapes.

Deadline - submit by April 07, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Newest
Iman
4d
I used the templates provided. The third one stumped me for some reason, and indeed as I’m submitting this I just noticed a mistake on the second tier. I didn’t include its depth as it wraps around the cube.
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are very impressive. I would not have ever noticed that one ‘mistake’ if you didn’t say it. You did great.
Jorge Landivar
Hello, this assigment was difficult to do with 2 point perstective, and the knowing that the object become distorted by the perspective itself . thanks
Rachel Dawn Owens
Wow this is a tough one. You should try this assignment again with a simpler form. Maybe a 2x2 or 3x3 cube made of blocks. You have a 3x4x5 form here and it’s a real brain buster. I took some time to make some sense of your drawing the best I could. This is what I came up with. I like the addition of color. If you match the color to your orthos drawings, it can make your drawing easier to read. I hope this helps. Thanks for sharing. Good luck on your next one!
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Lenserd martell
Jacob Granillo
took a month to do this assignment, and got boring over time. This assignment really challenged my thinking because of the endless combinations of invented forms I can make! I took my time to try to come up with invented forms. I have many more pages in my other sketchbook but I’ll just upload these
Tori Tempo
27d
Nassim A.
1mo
Again, late submission :')
Espy
2mo
Here's a couple for this assignment! Felt a little unsure in some places, but it did work my brain!
Melanie Scearce
There's so many ways to add depth to these top down views!
Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)
Great studies! The left one is very innovative!
@rupertdddd
Blocks.... better late than never...
Melanie Scearce
Looks like futuristic buildings! Super cool.
@maggieb
2mo
I really enjoyed the process for this assignment. I could do it all day. I liked thinking about different way to interpret other sides based on just a top view and then rotating the objects in my mind and drawing them from different angles.
Melanie Scearce
These are so satisfying to look at. I love how you’ve laid out the pages. Well done 👍
Kathrin
2mo
The diagonals in the last picture were really challenging, especially the ones closer to me and more hidden.
Michael Longhurst
Here’s a few that I did from the three orthos in the assignment. Not sure I got the different view orthos correct. It was interesting to do them after the3d versions.
Darren
2mo
C B
2mo
Still playing catch-up
Frank Engelhaupt
I know, these are not the fanciest ones. But as simple as they look, it required quiet some time drawing them. In any case it is fun doing it.
sara keyes
2mo
Kassjan (Kass) Smyczek
Late again, but I am catching up :). I wanted to use a little bit the freedom I was given, since the given puzzles were always from one perspective only. So I put in some cats. There is one cat though that should appear on the assignment puzzles so I guess a little mistake happened on your end Marshall :D. Just kidding. Great exercise!
Martin Vrkljan
A bit late with this assignment, but it was really fun.
Angelica
2mo
This really is like doing a puzzle. And it took way longer than I thought, the time just flew by doing this. I was I bit unsure about how to interpreted the orthos. Like is the line you see in the ortho only the visible ones or do you see trough it? I went with that you see trough it because that seams to be the case in the examples for this assignment. But then that introduces a new problem which I noticed in the last one I did (down in the right corner). I don't know how to indicate the carved out parts because the lines that would indicate them share lines with other parts... although I realize now that I probably should have erased the outer lines in the top view where the carved out bits are... which mean the object I did is not actually represented by the first ortho, which was the goal... Although lets say I would have put a floating box under each carved out part than the ortho would be okay and actually be representing this object and then the problem is still there, how to you indicate the carved out parts? I'm not sure if I make sense with this. I had a lot of thoughts while doing this but actually putting it down in writing and make sense of them is not that easy.
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