This was pure torture even though I got the principles quite fast. One thing that I still am unsure of is whether I projected the different heights correctly, and whether I projected extruded parts properly on the main part of the cactus stem. Other problems I had was struggling with my tools and materials, which forced me to switch from my preferred analog tools to digital. I ditched my original ortho object and invented a cuboid cactus to try this project, because I thought it would be more challenging (and fun). I was close to giving up many times. I watched the demo videos and still had to sanity check myself often enough that I frequently lost track and had to redo a lot of parts. Something about the branch thickness on the left side of the cactus looks off, even though I referenced each height and thickness according to the top and side views and was careful to first measure them out on the front corner (the same that touches the PP), and then referencing them back in perspective to the relevant sides of the main stem. It should be the same height as the right branch. Many years ago I applied to an architecture school but I am happy I didn't get in, I don't think I would love the job (even though I'd rather do that than my current job in medicine - drawing is the only thing I still love to do after so many years). While I can see that exact planning is usefuI in some ways and teaches you to puzzle together parallells and points at the right places, I am extremely happy I actually made it with a submission. It's a relief and I learned a lot. This is also the only assignment I have done digitally. I tried several times with papers and the structures kept getting smaller and smaller, my poor A4 paper kept getting more and more crammed... and I have developed a phobia for erasers. I don't know how you guys have managed some of your excellent submission (all my projections were super tiny and difficult to work with no matter how I tried), but for sure it's awesome to behold.

I realized that there would be too many lines from the corners all over, so I started with the base and then started going up, and the handle was last.

Planned projections following along with the demos. I think I'm getting it!

Hi. This is my planned projection assignment. I tried to draw a boot. This was hard because the angles go to a lot of different vanishing points. So, I found two and ran the rest of the lines parallel to the viewer. Not sure if that was the right thing to do lol. But I attached pictures of the boot I drew and page where the boot overlaps with the plan, is the one I did before I watched all the demos. The second one includes the orthos and the planned projection after I followed along with all the demos. This was very interesting and something I never knew existed. I haven't seen anything like this before, but it was challenging and fun!

I´m late but I´m still trying :-)

The right-most box confused me. In the plan view, the front corner of the box “comes out” of the picture plane. I understand that we project that corner back to the picture plane from the station point so we can get an accurate height line. But does that mean that that projected point is also where the actual front corner of the box will be in the elevation view? It doesn’t seem right to me. The red set of lines looks more correct to me, but they don’t line up with the back corner of the box. The blue set of lines doesn’t look that correct to me, but they line up with the back corner (see shaded blue). But with the red set of lines it does look like I would be getting that “coming out” effect (see shaded green). So, does it look wrong to me because there is distortion happening or have I messed up somehow?

Cottage plan projections. I was pretty happy with both. Crossing the picture plane and horizon line creates some fun challenges.

Third attempt using one of the buildings from the Zolly app. This one looks really weird and distorted around the top of the building, and I'm pretty sure its because I put the viewers eye too close to the plan, thus making the vanishing points too close. Still, it was fun to do it traditionally, almost easier than digital honestly.

I think this my be final submission, it took me all day to make this one view. I don't know if it my set-up or the complexity of the subject, but what I do know is that using normal table instead of those artist ones hurt my back. I'm assuming the reason we use the ortho sticking out the picture plane is to make a wrapped view like this one? It didn't come out as quite imaging it would. I assume this is because I didn't due the Eye-level assignment properly and I should go back to it. Any advice? Also, I just realize that the deadline was for the 4th and not the 8th. These kind of stuff makes me worry I'm becoming retarded.

I took notes during the lessons, and made some experiments on simple shapes. I conducted the experiments to further understand how the Plan projection works on simple shapes before moving on to actual objects. However, I got a bit stuck on the experiments, could I have some help please? Experiment #1: I know that the viewer is where that little stick figure is. However, how would we know how tall the figure is? I tried to draw two projections. However only the top one seem to work. The bottom one couldn't converge to VP properly... Is there some sort of limit to where I can draw the object on the pink line? Experiment #2: My projections always seem to end up distorted, and then I have to redo almost everything to fix/un-distort it. Are there other limits besides the 60 deg limit to make it not look distorted? Experiment #3: For the drawing objects off the Picture Plane, is the purpose of the 'extension line' as though we are trying to move the object PLUS the viewer to make the object touch the picture plane? Thanks!

Eren's House from Attack on Titan!

I had drawn an ortho of IPhone charger brick so tried plan projection of that. I was able to do 3d version where I did not measure or used the plan projection but when I started doing the PP I was stumped. I could not understand how to do the prongs.. I did do PP along with Mr. Marshal. Hope I can get some help.

I tried several times to get this exercise done correctly and of course admire the polish and nice finished work from some of you, where the paper looks so neat and well presented. This is my best effort so far. I still don’t understand conceptually where to place the viewer, as well as the point of the right inferior corner of the cast shadow of the roof that touches the picture plane. Marshall did mentioned on the videos that this is related to the 60 degree field of vision, but still I cannot grasp the concept and fully understand it. Thanks for the challenge and this was quite the lesson on perspective!

Struggled to find interesting objects without curves…but tried this beautiful Quran holder on holiday in Morocco. (Though I seem to have forgotten to take a photo of the holder itself…image is an example from internet). Main ‘epiphany’ was suddenly understanding and being able to visualize what would happen if I moved the viewer position around and /or the horizon line vertically without having to actually draw it first i.e. the ability to plan ahead depending on what side or angle of view I would want to emphasise. My mind’s eye is finally awake….🧠👁️

So I did my sharpener, table and brush again. The sharpener I did twice with the viewer at different distances. I also did several boxes stacked on top of each other in different angles. You really have to be careful to not mix up witch vp to use. I have wanted to know how to do things more accurate and how to know where to put different vps when you have several objects in different angles, so the lessons were great. It made me understand perspective better. Now I actually understand why the perspective change depending on how close you are. But you get limited to quite small drawing since you need to be able to fit everything on the paper as well as the angles you can do without getting a vp way to far away to fit in.

Make a orthos of a building on a paper apart. In my Sketchbook i make the picture plane & lines. I did the floor plan, using vanishing points. i build up using the orthos.

It was great see it become a 2d to 3d drawing. I did it 2 times, 1 on a piece of paper & later in my Sketchbook. They are both the same shapes with different dimensions . I use color pencils on finish 3d shape. Pencil on 2d drawing

I did 2 floor plans, the 1st is on the left. I did not think i did it right. The right side is my 2nd try, i think i did it right. The 3d drawing begin with floor plan, using the line on the window as starting point, the line go to vanishing point. Then i build up, use the Height plan.