Isometric basics. 

Thanks Jorge (and everyone) for your comments. I have added a link to a PDF of the sketches shown in the video (in the video description).

Sorry, not sure what you mean by Third Angle... do you have an example?

Pino Trogu Following are links to a third angle projection. I believe it means drawing a 3-D object on a flat 2-D paper with precision and details in a way that makes it easy to be built. e1304.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/orthographic-multiview-projections.html www.enggwave.com/third-angle-projection/

Dima RJ Oh OK it just means the view of the object as you go around it, for example going around to its right (right side view). It's the view I recommend (viewer outside the box) as the so-called first angle projecting (viewer inside the box) does not make sense to me, since the plane of projection should always be in between the object and the viewer, but if the object is in between, then how can you even see the drawing you are making? Just seems counter-intuitive. Anyone know what a second angle projection would be? These views are just orthographic views, I have several other videos in the playlist that talk about it.

Pino Trogu Thank you Pino. Do you have specific videos that show how to draw those third angle projections ?

Try drawing perfect circles and ellipses for a few hours every week, which sounds boring, but is actually quite fun to do. That will improve line quality a lot. Doodling some patterns helps a lot too. Although I have to admit I fall back on slow position tracking as well :)

hash brown ok, ill try that thanks a lot. but what is "slow position tracking"?

Slow position tracking is a feature in MyPaint, Krita (both Open source) and other software that delays the printing of the inkt on your screen. Say the mouse it the mouse and the ink is the cat, the difference is a slow cat or a fast cat chasing you :P. (Damn my creative mind and all the examples which probably don't make sense unless you are me.) It basically means the ink doesn't directly get printed, so if you set it really slow, you get really smooth lines, but less accurate. It is great for drawing outlines of a face or long hair strands. It's not so great if you are tracing jagged lines and surfaces which aren't smooth.

hash brown haha, i loved your cat explaination, and yes i undrstood it. im gonna have to try mypaint, and thanks a lot for your help.

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Thanks for the comment. Do you mean a circle with tools or freehand? My demo is just a quick explanation for a quick method when drawing free hand. The hand can draw an ellipse -- a symmetrical shape -- fairly accurately and quickly, and that's an acceptable approximation of a circle in perspective. In a true perspective drawing of a circle made with tools, the top half would be smaller than the bottom half, but sorting out that subtle difference and executing it freehand is very hard. For design-oriented drawings, not necessarily still life, an ellipse is a very efficient stand-in for a circle in perspective. I think the video mentions a quick way to fit an oval in an isometric square using just two arcs drawn with a compass (a pseudo ellipse), and one can also use a real 30/30 ellipse template.