Assignment - XYZ: The Framework for Drawing in 3D

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Assignment - XYZ: The Framework for Drawing in 3D

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in The Perspective Course

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ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION: Feel free to submit your assignments in this lesson or the next one (Assignment - Labeling Lines for Spatial Understanding ) submissions will be reviewed from both location. - please try to avoid making duplicate posts

Assign one of the letters, X, Y, or Z, to each set of lines in the 3D models provided in this course or in the Zolly app. Then, sketch each object or scene. Don't worry about precision, focus on understanding.

Level 1: Everything is aligned. Label the axes.
Level 2: Objects aren't aligned. Decide which lines represent width and depth, and stay consistent.
Level 3: Includes bevels and diagonal lines moving on two axes. Label them as XZ, ZY, or XY.
Level 4: Lines moving on all three axes. Recognize that more than three axes exist, but focus on the primary ones.

Deadline - submit by April 29, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Maestro

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16h

Myles Goethe

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Chloe Kmita

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1mo

Debbie Dawson

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1mo

@jaejaelearning

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2mo

I've been having a pain flair up in my wrist, but wanted to give my brain some food today. I decided to try and wrap my head around the xyz directions by adding the lines over the top of a screenshot in photoshop. I felt a bit rusty as it's been a while since I've touched perspective but I'm glad I took the time to today. I then did one object rotation on paper. I think it would be good to do another tomorrow but I'm at my limit today. What i did looks kind of weird though, maybe because I was free handing the points? Happy for critique!

Sandra Süsser

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2mo

Free sketching ZXY #11 (just the orthos are copied, the rest was done from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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2mo

Free sketching ZXY #10 (just the orthos are copied, the rest was done from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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2mo

Free sketching ZXY #9 (just the orthos are copied, the rest was done by imagination) The first got too thick and I included a straight part at the wings that wasn't there by accident. But I went with it and corrected it in a second sketch after fetching the orthos and then I did some really loose sketches without construction. This exercise really pays off. I am more and more able to imagine the constructions in my head :)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #8 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #7 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination) I love this exercise :D. Feels like Sudoku for artists.

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #6 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #5 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #4 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #3 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching ZXY #2 (I copied the first one. The rest was drawn from imagination and checked afterwards)

Sandra Süsser

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3mo

Free sketching XYZ #1 (using the Blender axis system)

Guadalupe Belgrano

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3mo

I wish I had done more drawings for this assignment — it was a bit challenging for me. For two of the models, I had to draw the orthographic views to really understand the shapes. In all of them, I used a horizon line and two vanishing points, because I didn’t feel confident enough to do them freehand. Still, the main goal was to internalize XYZ like a song, and I think I managed to do that. I swear I can hear Marshall’s voice calming us down while I draw: “It doesn’t matter if the proportions are off.” Thank you Marshall :-)

Ethyn

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3mo

I can see why this exercise is good for thinking about direction of lines in space! I think I'll get the most value from here by consciously thinking about it whilst sketching and drawing.

Jorge Landivar

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4mo

This was draw in paper, but the photos taker where to dark so i have to lighten in nphotoshop

Miqdad (Mick Dad) Ali

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5mo

here are three pages of me getting the axis labeled. I struggled a lot more with trying to get my drawings to look right than I did with labelling the different axis, although the latter probably did help with the former!

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