I decided to do a germ x bottle lol. The single drawing is the one I drew while looking at it. The other ones are from my imagination. The drawing that was in one point perspective was my attempt to foreshorten it. Lol it was challenging but I had fun with this one. I like the purpose behind this exercise!

I started by drawing the construction boxes on pencil, then the final object, in this case a camera, on ink. It is difficult to know where parts of the object, like the lens of the camera, should be located, on the foreshorten orientations. I draw the construction lines by "feeling", hoping the few bits of the camera would be located kind-of correctly.

Image one (pencil box): The top left drawing was my first attempt at copying the picture. The one on the right was my second attempt as I was not happy with the first; I felt I hadn't pushed the foreshortening quality of it enough. The bottom three were made up. I notice I didn't keep the proportion of where the lid and the bottom meet consistent. On some it seems to be directly halfway along the box (when in real life it's not). Image two (tissue box): The ellipses were drawn freehand and I struggled to imagine how the tissue paper on the bottom right one would look. Image three (figurine): Maybe I got a bit ahead of myself here. Lots of round shapes instead of keeping it more boxy... for the far right one I found myself forgetting of thinking about the figure as "contained in a box", which lead to me thinking of the platform it stands on as something separate instead of as a part of the box in which the figure would be contained... so I couldn't quite figure out how the beveled edges would look.

This was really difficult! I went to a more complex object rather fast and I did not really understand what I was doing. Once I went back to an object that is basicly a box it was a lot more easy but even then I messed up the proportions sometimes. This was fun!

Sorry for the very late submission.. I tried with a soap dispenser :)

Did a few drawing at first, but thought I could do better, so did another page. Still some mistakes, but a fun exercise!

Going to be doing these as daily practice for a minute

The more I did this exercise, the more it began to make sense to me on a purely, non-verbal, right brained level, haha. It's hard to explain what exactly this is doing, but I'll try. The blob provides a strong sense of direction to build a shape on top of. There's almost a magical clarity that emerges the more you try to put any sort of cube/box shape around it. I found I couldn't help but see exactly where I wanted my lines in perspective to go once I got those contour lines of the blob in place. The right side of your brain inherently understands direction before you can even consciously understand how to represent it on paper-- If you assign *direction* to a formless blob, you've already done the hardest part of the drawing. After that it's just adding details to a solid foundation. Direction is so key here. Direction = foundation. It's the first step to carving into the paper, and assigning dimension to flat forms. At least, that's what I think is going on, haha. Excellent lesson.

Drew some more complicated items so I could practice the iteration part

I will do more of these definitely, they scratch so many parts of my brain and re-establish the fact that even with the simplest of boxy shapes, redrawing things from different angles is hard. I think it's especially because throughout the 4 years since I've started drawing, I've overrelied on references and copying and it's high time I start to unlearn that habit. Looking at my peers work, I think it was so much harder because there's an ellipses form in the structure of the bottle and also because u didn't use vanishing lines to plot I just sketched form my head freehand at first. I probably need to fix that

Here is my attempt at this assigment. I took a break from this course for a few weeks because seeing the submissions from everyone is very intimidating as beginner. It is amazing seeing how amazing they are. It is also is very inspiring. Things can be two things right, haha. I used the blob method for my assignment and used my iPad charger. I'm not sure if I did this correctly, so any feedback is appreciated.

I also tried constructing this brutalist sculpture I found in the Brutalism subreddit using simple forms. Some of the slanted edges were a fun challenge, but overall I think using a couple of orthos to iron out the proportions before I got started would have helped me to space things out more accurately. Not a total win in terms of final product but definitely taught me some things along the way!

This was fun and surprised me how challenging I found it. I chose an old Samsung fast charger I found in my junk drawer since it was really blocky with just a few interesting features (the prongs, the two major boxes, and the charging slot). I mostly ignored the rounded corners for now. I started with the charger standing up in 3/4 view and did a couple of thumbnails in loose 2-point perspective, then a couple of quick orthos to approximate its proportions. After that, I tried drawing it laying down (without moving it, which would be cheating!)--once freehand and once more using a straight edge. Finally, I did a view from beneath it, using 3-point to make it look larger/more dramatic. I'm pleased with how this one turned out other than the two metal prongs, which feel a bit wonky to me and I'm not sure why. Thanks for any feedback you feel generous enough to share!

Really had fun with this one!