I have to admit: orthographic drawing was one of my least favourite tasks this term. Though it is a bit too technical for me, I understand it’s use and how it can help me develop my art skills and my sense of perspective.
For the first one, the symmetrical object one, I didn’t have any simple object that would still be interesting enough to draw. I didn’t want to draw a box, that would have been way too simple and would have probably defeated the purpose of the task. Unfortunately, that led me to draw something a bit more complicated than I probably should have. I found a small human skull replica I had bought during a trip and decided to draw that:
Since it is a plastic figurine bought from a souvenir shop, the human proportions might not be accurate. Since human anatomy wasn’t the point of the task, I think that is not a problem.
I started by sketching the thumbnails, to make sure I understand the way the skull is constructed and how the height, length and width work together:
To be honest, I struggled with the foreshortening of the top view because of the complexity of the object. After trying and failing a few times, I started trying to visualize every element on the “face” of the skull as circles going around the skull, disappearing under the main part of the cranium. As layers of a cake. You see more of the ones above and then less and less of the ones under. That made the perspective a bit more easy to understand and helped me pull off the foreshortening. It wasn't perfect and I can always do a better job of it, though.
After that, looking at the thumbnails and also at my reference I started building the front image:
And, measuring to make sure the main proportions are right, I built the side and top views:
Again. foreshortening for the top view was tricky and might have resulted into a not so accurate top view. I believe I should have picked less complex objects to practice foreshortening before moving to something as complex as a human skull. It is something I will keep in mind for next time.
And this was the final piece:
For the second drawing I chose a shell, since, again, I didn’t want the object to be too simple:
As with the other one, I first sketched the thumbnails:
Then built the final drawing:
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