isometric shapes look unnatural to me... and clearly they are per se but I see more distortions for some forms than for others

I think it is a kind of optical phenomenon
where the brain will get confused

because we (our brain) are more familiar with
the real perspective than with the isometric one

@Pat For drawing letters I have 2 ways :

For a modern (sans serif) letter, I would create rectangles and align them according to the isometric grid (with snapping on). I choose the space between the rectangle according to symmetry if needed, for a "V" 3 squares may be good, while "5" will bring weirder look (see image here). Stick to the grid, it's easier (in your case I see the surrounding square off the grid). Keep in mind that you can make your artworks big, using a lot of square count and snapping accuracy and then just shrink them later.

If you have serif letters or complex curvy shape ("S") I suggest that you type your text then use the iso settings in the transform panel (rotate, skew, scale). I have done actions to make things automatic. The preset and some experiments are in this folder.
For volume you may duplicate the result and use the shape builder in order to create the thickness part.

I hope I'm clear enough. (I may need my second coffee )

maybe this helps for comparison

quit a while ago i made a video for another post
about isometric drawing

where i use a clone trick that may be helpful

keep your original plane while put a clone
of it in isometric so every change you made
on the original will be transferred to isometric

this could be helpful for complicated designs
or by using text

here the video

you could create planes for each side of your design

to use more then one shape create a group
and clone that group, you could use then "draw inside"
to put shapes and strokes in that group

and the "select members of a group.." Tool to
move shapes inside of the group

@Victor-Vector said in Isometric Drawing Tutorial:

@Devil-Dinosaur
If you wish to facilitate that, I would suggest adding a link to the forum in the description section on YouTube.

Good idea, I did it on all the videos.

I understand why you have the comments off. I would do the same to avoid the weirdness. People who have appropriate questions and comments will find the forum and do it here. If you wish to facilitate that, I would suggest adding a link to the forum in the description section on YouTube.

Comments are off because my faith in human behavior on social media is quite low.

I know there are small mistakes, hesitations and a too slow pace in what I show. It's definitely not professional standards. Anyway, I just try to help and I still believe that some of the information I give are worthy, despite the way I communicate it. And I don't need to be judged by people whose only effort was to press "play" on their device.

I also think that people can come to chat on this forum if they have questions or they need clarification.

@encart Thank you !

@VectorStyler Watching people use the tools you created yourself must be rewarding.

It is!

ok I will temper myself
but is hard

btw back when i worked in digital printing there was an ice cream truck
that drove by in the summer from time to time. And every now and then
our boss spent an ice cream for all employees (40 people).

coooooooooooool

um, 2 balls in a cup lemon and strawberry

Tutorial is great, thank you