Assignment - What is Zero Point Perspective?!

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Assignment - What is Zero Point Perspective?!

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Assignment - What is Zero Point Perspective?!

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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.

Deadline - submit by April 01, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Maestro

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Coffee machines

Louise

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14d

Louise

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16d

I just realized that the side view and the top view should have lined up beside each other, so here’s another attempt at it

Louise

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16d

I was scratching my head just trying to find a simple object in my house to draw. I decided these small binoculars might work.

Dan Henry

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19d

Still unsure on how to get from drawing something in one particular view to interpreting it in another view. But this is a fun exercise.

alba m

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24d

Wish I could slow down the drawing process to get cleaner lines and closer observation of relationships. Also, I had to decide which of the two eyes' perspectives to apply for parts of the drawing.

Louise

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16d

Very clever, and cute

Thieum

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1mo

Didn't manage to get to the end of those... It seems I didn't approach them the right way.To be repeated...

Debbie Dawson

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1mo

Now this is definitely more me. I love precision drawing. Sorry about the light in the picture. This was with the curtains shut and the lamp on!

Debbie Dawson

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1mo

Forgot to add the corners

Nikki De Backer

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2mo

I redrew the items I used from an earlier excercise. I added unnecessary details to the first one but I was just really enjoying the drawing 😅 It was a mix of measuring and freehanding and lining up the details!

Chloe Kmita

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2mo

Dippede Doodle

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2mo

Hey folks! There are truly some great masters in this course and I am happy to learn along them. Here is my assignment. Why should orthos be in no point perspective? – I don’t understand that! I think orthos are a direct view at an object in one point perspective. There is a vanishing point and I also needed to converge the bottom plane of the airplane. If that’s the case we have to consider foreshortening on long objects in orthos right? At least it was I did (because my object is really long like an airplane). If you look at the rear wing (elevator) you may notice that the width changes from the front to back and top view. I tried to implement foreshortening should I do this? I would appreciate if anyone could help me out with this confusion! Best regards Alexander

Dippede Doodle

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2mo

Anthony Hernandez

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2mo

Hello Alexander. You shouldn't be using diminution for orthos. It really is 0 point perspective so the lines that are going away from the viewer don't converge to a vanishing point. Since the lines don't converge, objects further away don't get smaller. The reason we want to do this is so that we can get the exact measurements of the object and its parts relative to each other. It's like a floorplan for a house. If the house had a staircase you wouldn't increase the width of each stair in the floorplan as you get closer to the top, you just keep them all the same width, because all the stairs have the same width. If someone wanted to know the width of the rear wing compared to the rest of the plane from these orthos, they would have to approximate or guess because the front top and back view all have different widths. That being said, your orthos look great and the diminutions you've made aren't extreme enough to make much of a difference for the purposes of what we are doing. Can't wait to see this plane in perspective!

YS Ryan

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3mo

@deadsm

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3mo

Don't know how I missed this!

Ethyn

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3mo

Thought I'd try my new lead holders with some more quick zero-point sketches.

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Last perfume for now... this thing broke my mind x.x

Rafael Rangel

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3mo

It looks incredible, like always! :DD

Sandra Süsser

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4mo

This thing had the weirdest shape ever. I didn't look at the object for the 3D view. This was really hard.

Melanie Scearce

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4mo

This is great quality work @Sandra Süsser!

Sandra Süsser

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4mo

Also I just realized I misspelled perfume haha. Gonna correct that sorry. (Mixed it with German lol)

Sandra Süsser

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4mo

Started with a simple volume. The cap in perspective is a bit too thin.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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4mo

Wow. The small cap is a very subtle issue. This looks awesome!

Carlos Pérez

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4mo

This is a second round of orthos

Roberto C

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4mo

Drew my wacom pen holder. I want to try the airplane.

Nicole

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3mo

Great freehand! The hole in the oblique view does look a bit skewed but that's one of the challenges of ellipses in perspective. Couldn't get that down yet either. Overall good job!

Iman

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4mo

I drew a bottom, top, front, and side view of my cauldron mug — except I left the felt pads out (appalling, I know! But I don’t want the wood to get scratched…) Maybe nobody would’ve noticed. Anyway, it’s freehand so the circles are a bit wonky and I’m not too pleased with how the legs turned out in the bottom view. The 3/4 view is not really accurate but I didn’t use the photo as reference, that’s just to submit here.