Took other people's idea of using a perfume bottle. This was definitely interesting, usually when I do object construction measurements, it feels like an unusual form of punishment. But while the blob method didn't have the most accurate results, it was surprisingly fun, it was a pleasure to do it. I tried to not look back much to try to fix mistakes, kept it fairly quick, which also probably helped with my enjoyment Overall the thing I struggle with is keeping the size of the initial box at least semi consistent. I will also try to do a more complex object one of these day and see how it fares Thank you for the lesson as usually

Step one: Find a blocky object: Cool I have a deck of cards! Step two: Put it in 3/4 view: Great! Easy! What can possibly go wrong? Step Three: Use the blob method to simplify it.... well 2 out of the 3 steps went well. Not sure how you would make a blob for something that is extremely foreshortened. No matter how I orient it it still feel like the cards are sticking up too high. Also not sure how using something abstract like a blob allows you to keep everything in proportion. In the demo it looks like Mr. Vandruff is using an egg shape to make a deck of cards... but I just don't see it thus I guess while putting down my lines and wouldn't you know? It looks like a series of bad guesses as oppose to looking like something that was constructed with some sort of understanding about what I was drawing. I'll keep posting and working on it. Any advice would be welcomed from one and all. More questions for community members: Are you measuring your blob or do you eyeball it? Do you have an understanding on what the ellipses and planes do when you rotate your blob? Or are you just using intuition? Are you carefully planning out your blob? If so, how? How do you focus on making a blob but at the same time equally focus on whatever item your referencing? Finally and most importantly.... should I switch to decaff?

It is a pleasant experience to notice how much more there is to these pieces than what we just see normally

I was quite surprised at how much I had to think during this but it was also surprisingly enjoyable and I feel like I learned lots, thank you for the lesson

I mean if everyone is posting their studies I had to do one too. 30 minutes on the dot. Used a live waterfall youtube stream and honestly it's way harder to try to see order in running water than i thought it would be

If anyone is interested, there is an exposition about the Yoshida family at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (UK): https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2024/june/yoshida-three-generations-of-japanese-printmaking/