/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

My Jayne,

Your next task is both in perspective and self-learning.

Attempt to reveal as much as possible about isometric perspective without having read about it. Use your geometric logic to derive a bootleg understanding of this form of perspective. Once you feel you've hit a dead end and would benefit greatly just from seeing a little diagram or googling a little fact about isometric perspective, look it up then.

Demonstrate a grasp over it by drawing your very own isometric grid.
Then draw boxes and cylinders in various combinations that interest you.
Then start drawing organic shapes that you cannot immediately solve using the basic grid.
See what techniques you can invent (based on your grid, and your sense for geometric accuracy) to break down the otherwise arbitrary shape into something solved, not simply eyeballed or guessed. This means using the isometric grid as a foundation on which to create fine, logical graphing for the arbitrary.

>To think of interestingly challenging organic shapes, simply find something that looks "hard enough" to do. It will probably be too hard when you try it for real, and you will find something slightly simpler to start with before advancing upwards. This is acceptable.

For the last activity, I anticipate drawings with a great too many lines of measurement and proportion for otherwise trivial curves that would perhaps be very easy to eyeball in the first place.
The reason for this seemingly inefficient method is for proof of concept, and a grasp of accuracy for when it's going to matter.
This is the routine of The Draughtsman.

Report back to me with how far you've gotten by March 26.
If my instructions are unclear, ask for clarification.

Captain

>PS - Has My Slave done 30 minutes of free-drawing yesterday?