Assignment - What is Zero Point Perspective?!

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Assignment - What is Zero Point Perspective?!

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Marshall Vandruff

in The Perspective Course

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Drawing Exercise: Creating Orthographic Views

Project: Using the object you chose for your form study (Assignment - The Secret of Simple Forms), create an ortho for it.

Draw it from the top, side, and front views, proportioned as accurately as you can.
Keep the object at a distance to better judge proportions.
Plan your layout: Ensure the views line up correctly on your paper.
Use instruments or draw freehand:
- Instruments provide precision.
- Freehand drawing enhances spatial reasoning.

This exercise develops your ability to think in three dimensions and prepares you for drawing in one, two, or three-point perspective.

@luvbuzz

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14m

took a lot more concentration then I initially thought .

@lieseldraws

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Freehanded the front, side, and top views of the toy plane. I have to say, these orthographic views are deceptively easy! It took me a good while to finish this. When I checked with a ruler later, some things didn’t quite line up. I think it’s because I failed to make the front view symmetrical at the start. Note to self: Mind the symmetry!

Anke Mols

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Sita Rabeling

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Skull study, because it is difficult 🤓. I was hoping to get a cleaner pencil drawing.

Melanie Scearce

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12h

Very clean! Great job 👍

Sita Rabeling

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Pamela D

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One of my dads onyx book ends. I always thought they were horses until this exercise and I could see the carving showing them to be zebras. Just shows what paying attention reveals. :)) This is my second submission as I had time for a bit more practice.

Viacheslav [ki-Vi] Polianskii

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I feel I used to like Lego more.. before brilliant idea to draw it 😂 p.s. next time will use millimetre grid paper for it) [and will get a t square, now I deserve it😂]

Vera Robson

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I feel I messed up the 3D image a bit, but that wasn't part of the assingment 😉

Smithies

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Okay this one nearly killed me. I'm going to have another go at the back ortho because I tried to do lines to describe the shapes and then I realised afterwards I probably should have done cross contours to describe the forms... But I'd already used ink and it would have been a mess. I guess it's already a mess but nevermind!

@blackhand

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46m

I think it looks good!

Lin

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A very difficult piece handled well!

Michael Longhurst

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Definitely harder than it looked, but I can really see how the helps you understand the subject and then envision it in 3d space.

Mal

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Orthographic illustration of my pencil sharpener.

Carlos Javier Roo Soto

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I don't know if I'm still on time for chance to be critique or if it's gonna be a critique video of this lesson, but here's my first try on a freehand orthos. But of course because I had to shoot myself in the foot by choosing one of the most difficult Rider Machines possible for this exercise, just because the current season of Kamen Rider is soooooo good. I kinda have this bad habit of rushing to towards the end of a long drawing, which makes me kind of mess-up a little by the end. Any advice to fix that? I can already see where are some errors. I may try doing with tools next, but I will choose something more simple next time. I would love to hear any feedback.

Jay Nightshade

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I CHEATED. I purchased a drawing tablet and it's amazing, but I can tell it's going to take time to get used to. I used SHIFT to create my straight lines *eek*! If I didn't it would've taken me a full day to draw this haha! This was fun. Great assignment, sensei Marshall! EDIT: I just realize I could make this look a lot better by fleshing out the smaller parts, such as the cylinder in the window on the left. I could draw a proper cylinder in there. I might tackle this again.

Lanna

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Hi Marshall! I have a question about practicing. As we go through this course and complete the assignments, should we be taking copious notes alongside them? Is doing and repeating the assignments and rewatching the lectures sufficient? Or do you have any tips on retaining this information? Thank you in advance!

@vange

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Jeremy Johnson

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Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, I couldn't submit my assignment for the Simple Forms lesson; however, I was able to take a crack at this. I feel the proportions (my weakness!) are off, but I managed to execute a result I was pleased with. I wish I attempted more views and drawings of other forms, especially after viewing other submissions.

Shayan Shahbazi

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“Stormweaver” Ship Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant Second Attempt.

Melanie Scearce

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Wow, I love the rhythm studies. That whole page is incredible. Great work!

Jacob Hebda

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This subject is challenging one to draw in perspective! I'm really impressed by your efforts! I wanted to share some feedback that I hope might help. As I was viewing your sketches, I actually became disappointed when I reached the reference image. Especially evident in your excellent side views, I found that your choice to emphasize the curving, almost horn-like shape of the wings adds drama and interest to the ship that the reference image lacks, enhancing its design at least to this member of the audience. Keep it up! I noticed that you used multiple vanishing points, particularly in the top view image, to help control proportions and measure the wing segments, and I was wondering how you found these vanishing points? I would appreciate any tips you can give me. Thanks!

Amani Noor (Amu)

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Orthos Project: I tried to draw a car but messed up the proportions when drawing the 3/4 view. Maybe I should do this in pencil next time. 😔

Jay Nightshade

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Great work and yea, the 3/4 view is a little squished but you already recognized that so you, my friend, already solved the problem!

Melanie Scearce

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This is beautiful! I love those shadow shapes.

Shayan Shahbazi

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Great work.

Lin

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Tried a mix of things, measured and intuitive. A bit embarrassed about getting lost and off centre in some places but at least we are beginning to feel it out more. The car is a 3d model, the deodorant is my own observing from real life and the violin is a mix of both. (I did these with a migraine so my apologies for the errors that shouldn’t exist. I’ll be cleaner from here on)

Smithies

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Very cool, I particularly like the violin!!

Shayan Shahbazi

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Great work, clean and neat.

Moka

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Here are both my pencil sharpeners back from the form study in otho form. I notice now after scanning I got confused at some point: when I was looking at the mechanical one. I could see the interior sides of the top handles and I used a bit of one point perspective for these but now I understand I should have just drawn them as "flat" squares instead. I'm planning to do a second sheet with the other items I did in the form study so I may correct it at the same time.

@blackhand

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Not what I did for the previous assignment, but, I felt like I wanted something more challenging/interesting. I made a list of other items so I’ll probably try to start checking those off as well. I really like using the tools for this, but I may try some freehand ones as well. I like the “instant” precision you get with rulers, etc. but, I’ve seen some people on YouTube do amazing freehand work. The curves are freehand, but, more practice required.

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