Here's my attempt at this exercise. It felt daunting at first but it was a good opportunity to revise the blob method, strengthen freehand straight lines, eyeball the DCFOA parameters, get a hang of maintaining the volume and proportions of an object at different angles and also, revise the Cartesian coordinate system ;)

I never thought that one top view could be so many different 3d shapes!

Hello folks, Here's my submission. Before I got started, I thought I'll draw out the orthos first and then make the oblique view but I got so paranoid about potentially getting the oblique view wrong in terms of receding lines and vanishing points that I went the other way around.

Here are 2 attempts at freehanding a Formula 1 car model and a smartwatch. I foolishly went for the Formula 1 car first because Darth Maul had once said that 'pain is the greatest teacher'. It was indeed painful to see the multiple scratchy lines trying to look for the right curve flow while maintaining orthogonal consistency, so much so that I had to do it over 2 days. The smartwatch was more tricky than I expected, especially since I had to physically hold it for the front and back views, and because the length of the straps meant either the strap end closer to me would defocus while the watch body would stay in focus, or vice versa. Also, the F1 car was the right size to be a 1:1 model (it ended up being almost exactly the length of my pen), while figuring out proportions for the miniaturised smartwatch was more of a challenge.

As the main assignment, the one involving rulers and set squares, I decided to go with the band logo that got me revering band logos in general, the Metallica logo. The actual logo has letters rotated in 3 point perspective but for this one I decided to extrude just their flat version. I tried to be use exact angle measurements for a while but I quickly ran out of patience and just eyeballed and winged the last 20% or so.

Instead of people's names, my subject matter for this assignment was my favourite studytime distraction topic in school ergo metal band names. I tried to explore a range of font styles in order to get sharp angles and gradual contours, and everything in between. The diagonal nature of the Judas Priest logo yielded especially interesting results. Sorry in advance about the scratch-offs...

Here is my first one. A bit ambitious. Thank you @Ishaan Kumar for the idea. perspective on Typing paper, pencil & Sharpee Marker. I do not own the copy right. so Lars, Please do not sue me...

I really love this Melted Pancake Method! It is really great for space concepting. It brings together structure and intuition, both parts of creation perfectly balanced. I will definitely keep exploring and stretching the scale, forms, and compositional value. I am so excited with this method! Thank you teachers!

Here's my attempt. I had to do a few rounds of making and deleting, because I got picky about composition and shape and all the things that Phil was talking about not getting hung up on. Finally, I arrived at a zone that I thought I could work with, and it also helped that I went away on holiday for a week after laying down the base pancakes. The process became much smoother after I came back from holiday, and in fact, became more engaging and the detailing process got me a lot more involved.

I was waiting to see the Metallica logo appear when you spoke of extruded band names. I would've scored a lot better at school had I not being drawing that logo into every notebook margin and etching it into every class table. Now it feels like I'm returning to it with added knowledge of the how and why of it. Almost like returning to a MetroidVania style game level after having skilled up by playing a lot of other levels in between. Looking forward to this assignment!