My art work 3d watermelon.

To draw in 3D simply means to depict something that has volume or space. This can be as simple as adding thickness to block letters or as complex as trying to depict a cityscape or a human body in space. A drawing is a 2D model of 3D space if you want it to be. The most common two dimensional model of three dimensional space is where the edges of the page are parallel to two of the three dimensions and the third dimension is depicted through overlapping, diminishing size and other techniques called the perspective.

This is one of my most beloved areas of study with drawing. I love that we perceive volume and depth but the information we gather is projected onto a plane of cells in our eyes! This means that our brain is interpreting what we see and making sense of the data it gets from our limited visual hardware. Our eyes are pretty cool, but what our brain does with the flawed input is truly staggering.

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa. It is a large, sprawling annual plant with coarse, hairy pinnately-lobed leaves and white to yellow flowers. It is grown for its edible fruit, also known as a watermelon, which is a special kind of berry botanically called a pepo. The fruit has a smooth hard rind, usually green with dark green stripes or yellow spots, and a juicy, sweet interior flesh, usually deep red to pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, or white, with many seeds.

Considerable breeding effort has been put into disease-resistant varieties and into developing a seedless strain. Many cultivars are available, producing mature fruit within 100 days of planting the crop. The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.