My object has different proportions to the one in demo because I based it on a cube. I thought it would make it easier to carve the shapes out. And that's basically how I made my measurements: I drew the cube, then a plan on its bottom and top surface, and dropped lines for the "tower" from there. I'm guessing that's just another way of doing it? And since my first drawing turned out quite distorted, I tried another one where the viewer was placed further away from the picture place and that helped. Another way to solve it would have been to place the bottom plane of the projected object closer to the horizon, right?

This hurt my brain in the best way. Even freehand, this looks much better when you go to outline it. I'm not confident yet to stray too far from the demo, but I hope to get the hang of it as I work through it.

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.

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 understood that we placed the orto that way because we will project a 3/4 view . I still I’m confused about how to project the height forshorten

I don't get it. Why are we not using the lower VPs? What was the point in creating them if we're not going to use them? Isn't the higher VPs part of the Picture plane? What do they have to do with our new horizon line? T_T I'll try again tomorrow and make it five times as large. (Who wants be drawing all those lines in a drawing so small? Barbaric, I say!!)

Made it a big higher.

I've re-traced out how to identify the top corner of the box here. In the previous replies I used the incorrect vanishing point when trying to figure out the height of the top "floor" - this correction should follow the horizon + VPs Marshall made initially. This led to some of the recent comments' confusion about the part of the revision's lines. Hopefully this should clear it up

Tried another shape, this is cool

Is something wrong? I found it a bit complicated with how you’re supposed to get the corner of the box on top of the slope…

In the first image I tried to copy the correction that’s in the vid, but did not get it or did I ?… Then I chose a new station point and drew a new projection, a bit further away from the horizon. if this is wrong, please delete this post; I don’t want to cause more confusion 😵‍💫 If this is right, I can go on with the next puzzle; a rectangular box with open lid. If I cannot solve that I’ll simply draw along all the former vids over and over.😓

I got confused because of the correction..I thought we were meant to use the lower VPS? I might have to rewatch 🥲

Okay, we've posted the corrected version starting around 9:30. Go see. I think it will not only clarify the error, but also help you seek solutions for similar problems. Thank you Speff, @culhwch, Melanie (and yes @euyoun — careful about trust) for calling attention to it.

I took 2 months away from this course due to business at work. Now I’m back and I feel like I need to start from the beginning…or do I? Any suggestions?

I'm not big on silent films, but the suave beanie guy changed my mind.

I turn off the volume and I was actually able to follow along what you were doing quite well. Now I wanna try to mute other demos in this course and others to see if I can follow along too.