I Just copied. I didn't understand. Am i supposed to know something first?

I had fun with this one, I enjoyed tracing the lines from the origin point to the end. When it got really confusing I found that labeling the corners with numbers and finding the the corresponding number on the next block helped. I tried some simple shapes and some complex. The last spiral one I made a few mistakes but completed it anyway. I should of traced through the ghost lines better.

Okay. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted my arrow to look like and tried to draw it but it didn't look right. So I went and tried to make an orthos and I think it makes more sense and tried to draw it again in an oblique view, looking from above. It still doesn't look right. The part I messed up was when the arrow is going up and away from us (curved z-y direction). I did some "investigation" on the upper right page. I think I understand better what I did wrong now. I'll try again later maybe but I think I'm slowly figuring it out. Please let me know if I'm leading myself in the wrong direction though!

A bit complex for now, I need to work on it more !

Hello! I’ve been experimenting with drawing arrows in perspective, but parts of them seem to twist awkwardly, and I can’t quite figure out why. Could it have something to do with my initial boxes? I’d really appreciate some feedback if anyone can spot the major mistakes I’m making.

Jolly good show.

This was a blast. Just can’t do it without adult supervision.

This lesson is so useful and I can apply it to my drawing practices!

This was incredibly helpful. I really appreciate adding an example of gesture after doing a technical box based example, that really made it click.

Stubborn as I am I decided to invent my own rotations, and set myself up for hours and hours of problems I tried to solve. It took a lot of thinking and errors. I'm not sure I got it right in the end. While doing this I discovered that for me, it's a lot easier imagining where opposite flat planes go, like sheets in space, rather than trying to connect the dots. Four dots made me overthink which produced a lot of silly erros, because it was a bit difficult to rotate each dot in space eather than the "top sheet" and the "bottom sheet" of the arrow. Maybe it's too much to keep track of?

Absolutely loved having a play with these!

Despite my belief that I've always had a pretty good natural sense of 3d form, I've been pretty terrible at this thus far. I've drawn my own guidelines (basically the original example in reverse) for these attempts. Probably unwise to do it without a grid but I think I've been just consistent enough. I'm struggling to intuit where the form should "puff out" or "push in". I think my 3rd attempt is the closest to being correct but I feel like I'm still far off. Any help is appreciated. I'm pulling my hair out over this.

Arrows / forms bend & twist.

starting with bending the arrow, about to start rolling and twisting it around

Just trying XD

At first I followed along to the demo and then I tried to really wrap my head around how it worked… The colors might be a bit hard to see, but take the red/purple in the left-most drawing for example. The way I understood it was: curving lines attach from the end points of the side plane of a box to the top plane of another box and then back to a side plane of another box on the opposite side. It’s a repeating pattern. If there were three more boxes after that, eventually the red/purple would become the blue/green. However when Marshall divided the boxes in half and used those half-way-points to “grace the curves”, I did struggle to understand why (for example, the purple) was drawn more convexly. Well, I guess it’s to “grace the curve”. But… I still can’t wrap my head around that entirely. For example, on the upper-most drawing where I drew the lines quite darkly, I didn’t curve them as convexly. I tried to follow more of an S-rhythm. It doesn’t look that wrong to me…? I don’t know, I guess I do understand what Marshall was demonstrating, but it’s the type of thing where I understand it for a moment and then it disappears… and then I understand it again and so on and so forth. I also drew a shape with lines moving along XYZ to relate to the previous lessons because it felt really similar. Well, I’m also attaching some very messy pen scribbles where I tried to figure it out whilst watching TV.