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Assignment - Orthos to Invented Form

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Marshall Vandruff

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Assignment - Orthos to Invented Form

Lesson by

Marshall Vandruff

in The Perspective Course

754

Course In Progress

Assignments 181Lesson NotesDownloads 6

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!

Sandra Süsser

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Really enjoyed this exercise <3. Drew my own ortho plan and just did versions for the top view since I had enough ideas for that alone.

Sandra Süsser

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Corrected

Sandra Süsser

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Just realizing I drew one impossible figure unintentionally lol. Can you spot it? :D

Ethyn

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10d

Here's my attempt at this exercise. It was great practice for thinking about things three-dimensionally! Putting the plans into perspective really made me realise what parts I hadn't fully thought through in the plans.

Ben Nunn

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17d

There templates were a lot of fun once I got in the groove! I tried to experiment with it a bit!

Iman

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24d

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

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23d

These are very impressive. I would not have ever noticed that one ‘mistake’ if you didn’t say it. You did great.

Jorge Landivar

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1mo

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

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29d

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!

Rógvi í stórustovu

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1mo

Lenserd martell

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1mo

Jacob Granillo

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1mo

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

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2mo

Nassim A.

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2mo

Again, late submission :')

Espy

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2mo

Here's a couple for this assignment! Felt a little unsure in some places, but it did work my brain!

Melanie Scearce

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2mo

There's so many ways to add depth to these top down views!

Jyayasi (*Jay-o-she*)

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2mo

Great studies! The left one is very innovative!

@rupertdddd

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2mo

Blocks.... better late than never...

Melanie Scearce

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2mo

Looks like futuristic buildings! Super cool.

@maggieb

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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

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2mo

These are so satisfying to look at. I love how you’ve laid out the pages. Well done 👍

Kathrin

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2mo

The diagonals in the last picture were really challenging, especially the ones closer to me and more hidden.

Michael Longhurst

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2mo

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.