I drew things around me (water bottle, tab mate, lens cleaner, piranha plant). I tried to not go much further than one-layer sketches, as I feel like this is where I am making foundational mistakes. My problem doesn't seem to be simplifying as much as it is drawing simple volumes in space. The bounding boxes were the hardest part, and that's not a great sign!

I drew a pipe wrench. This was pretty fun. I probably could have broken the forms down more. If anyone has any critiques for me I'd appreciate it.

Phew! Well, I'm about a million days late after taking a break from art, but I was pleased to see my skills haven't atrophied too much. This was a great exercise to start drawing again. I'm tempted to say it feels like one of the most fundamental / important exercises of them all? I feel like if all you did was this one exercise, you could eventually learn how to draw pretty much anything by working your way up to more and more complex forms. Attempt 1 (fireplace): I based this one off of real-world reference, a little model fireplace I have. I think I did a pretty good job overall, though I messed up the proportions of the fireplace in both angles (my drawing is too long / squat), plus I messed up the angles of the lines in the below shot - the lines should be getting more horizontal as they approach the horizon line, not less! I used line width and darkness to add some atmospheric perspective. Attempt 2 (bunny): This took FOREVER. I think I tried about 3 or 4 different ways of breaking the rabbit into forms, trying to hit on something that was boxy enough to replicate without being too robotic. I'm pretty happy with it overall, especially how the line weight came out. Attempt 3 (lizard): I tried 2 new things for this one: first, I didn't use an outer (containing) box, and second, I tried changing the lizard's pose for the second image, not just the viewing angle. I don't know if lizards sit like that, but whatever. This was a lot of small, narrow boxes and I don't know if I got all the angles right, but I think the overall impression is pretty effective. This also took ages... basically an entire day! Overall, this was a great exercise and I hope to revisit it again in the future once I'm caught up. I'd also like to revisit this once I've learned a little more about shading - I think this would be a good shading exercise once I know what I'm doing in that area.

First time i did this with this random charger stand my mom bought me a while back, i think i kinda missed the point of the assignment; When drawing the new positions I kept just kind of guessing where everything was supposed to go based on what I think looked good. Second go around I would use a simpler shape, so that I wouldn't have to crowd up the paper with lines that confuse me, and I tried using lines to make sure that the fragrance bottle's neck and top were centered every time. Things I noticed: When it comes to vanishing points that are off the paper, drawing circular shapes (cylinders in this case), and scaling things properly, I'm just guessing and adjusting based on what looks good. For example, the height of the fragrance bottle's neck is obviously going to appear shorter when it's further away, but I have no idea how to do it proportionally so that it decreases in size as much as it would in real life if I were to adjust the angle. I'm looking forward to a way to learning a way to approach these problems scientifically.

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