Orthographic drawing

 

I really enjoyed this task as it was a new way of working and thinking for me. For this week, I opted to draw a nutcracker as I did this task during December so I thought it would be an interesting object to create in this way. I made sure that I was very accurate when measuring and drawing each angle of this in order to not make into any of the mistakes I had made in previous work. The above image shows the front projection of the object. Each part has been accurately measured and constructed using grids. I also added some shading to represent slight changes of tone just to add a bit of differentiation. 

Here are the other 2 projections of the object; the side and the back, which are also fully measured and accurately drawn. I have once again added some shading to represent slight changes in tone. I spent a long time on this in order to get it as accurate as I could so that the item would be clear to someone possibly needing to model it.

This is a quick photo of part way through the drawing process where I was sketching the basic grid.

This a much smaller and simpler orthographic drawing I did before attempting the nutcracker as I wanted to practise with more simplistic projections. I decided to draw a nail varnish as it featured a cylinder and and a cuboid type shape. As you can see with this piece, there is an inaccuracy with the tube on the back projection. When drawing the nutcracker, I made sure that all lines were perfectly straight.