Probably bit off more than I could chew on this one, but felt like I learned a lot from it. Any advice or feedback would be appreciated.

It’s been great looking at everyone’s homework for this. Lots of great work, and very helpful to see the range of different subjects and approaches. Anyway, I followed Marshall’s advice and just focused on very simple things. Baby steps, I guess. Aaaahhh! Posted this in the blob lesson by accident, but, meant it to go here. Sorry for double posting.

The best boxy object is a box. So I started with one. I thought I was going fine while drawing but seeing the photos next to the drawings has proven me wrong. The convergence of parallel edges also looks way more pronounced in the photos than when seen with the naked eye. I guess getting it 'right' is a futile attempt because I probably wouldn't have needed this course if I had gotten it right. The 2nd object is a replica of a Formula 1 car I have. Same set of problems with probably a much more complex object than I should've picked.

This took some time to figure out. The tires were the hardest part. I didn't use the blob method. I constructed boxes and attempted to fit the car inside it. Some of them turned out a bit wonky.

This time, tried a more organic subject, simplifying it, and use blob method to help construct the boxes and yes it is very helpful to visualize where the box lines go! My lines starts to get a lot messier tho, so used red lines to help show some overlapping parts clearer. The legs angles are the hardest part and I gave up trying to make them in the same direction as the source image but in different angles. Also proportion after switching angles are still my number one weakness (*^*)

Boots gave me a kick in the bum. Top left from observation . Others from imagination . Very challenging !!. I think the challenging is knowing what a perfect cube should look like , especially under extreme foreshortened perspective. I mean having a cube to base other proportions off of. Started with a blob then a guess a where the straights should be

First, I worked on understanding perspective better since I still find it hard to visualize. I did a few sketches to study the object and get a better feel for it. Then, I tried the exercise without looking at my earlier drawings and simplified the shape to match the assignment. I decided to use a pen instead of a pencil so I couldn’t erase my mistakes. This way, I can see them clearly, remember what went wrong, and figure out how to improve. When I erase mistakes, I tend to forget them and make the same ones again, so keeping them visible really helped me learn.

I did try the Chinchillas first, because I knew I'd fail and thus motivate myself to try again with a much simpler form. So task failed successfully the first time around. The wine bottles turned out good. I did not attempt to make them cylindrical though. I think that would be the next step. Some questions I'll keep in mind for the next few lessons are: How do linesystems work? How do I keep proportions accurate? (I think the answer lies in understanding linesystems) This was surprisingly more difficult than I thought it would be, but also fun, which I didn't expect.

Much to learn...

Hi everyone. I'm proud of you all for working hard. You can do this, I promise :) Here's my submission. My cylinder ellipses need some work. They aren't quite in correct perspective but this was fun! I forced myself to try and measure everything out. That's something I don't have patience for as I get frustrated with it but I stuck to it. Good luck, everyone!

I simplified a card box, though I realized some of the perspective on them is a bit off. I assume I will likely end up getting better at that as the year goes on. Maybe tomorrow I'll try the exercise with some other stuff lying around the room.

I decided to throw to the wind, and be sketchy and do all my lines free hand, estimating with the eye and only correcting when something was very wrong. It looks sketchy and messy, but for the first time in 7 years (yeah, I've been trying to learn drawing an burning out a LOOOOONG time) this messier approach felt so much more fun, and I actually enjoyed the time I spent trying and somewhat succeeding in rotating simple objects. This and Proko's beginner's course are shaping up to be the best way to start drawing as a limited-time, somewhat older, novice drawer. Are they perfect, or even good? Nope. But they are the best I've done to this day on hand, and best of all, they were fun to figure out! For once in 7 years, I am very hopeful I'll finally figure the basics in Perspective well enough, to actually draw semi-decently in a few more years!

I heavily simplified the already simplified Lego version of EVE. Definitely need to work on portions and vanishing points but I enjoyed the process of trying to move the object only in my mind’s eye. I will definitely continue with the exercise. I found it a bit meditative.

Playing with the assignment, this time I try to use the blob as the base to make this weird airplane so that it's body is round, but I have a lot of trouble getting the eyes and mouth correct in extreme foreshortening angles. My brain know it's logically around the surface of the blob but cannot figure out the correct line curve to make the proportion satisfying @.@

Here're my first 3 attempts to the assignment. I don't know if I should have use tools for this one, I unfortunately skip the lesson at tools because of the Christmas season, the busy season for Live Caricature, and I have hand problems so I decided to use my hand for work mostly. I did most of these at work taking advantage that we're in a little drought period. Let me know what you think and if I should go do the Tools assignments before going back to try again this assignment?

Day 3: air fryer, this time 3 to 4 boxes to draw. This one have a simple shape, but interesting design in the form and some subtle details. Day 4: Always want to draw a bike, but it seems a sudden jump in the complexity, Improvement: 1. Seems like the ellipse are controlled well on day 4. I am happy for that. 2. Correct many times for the proportion on day 3, at least now I can see some of it. 3. I am developing my stages, like PeterHan did in the last videos, but more pencil work first. Lessons/Question: 1. I kind of know how to draw a hexagon within a square, but not sure for the octagon 2. the bike seems complicate, The body, of it I try to simply, man, that one is hard. And advice on that will be more than welcome. 3. Kind of rushed in my progress for doing the complicated 3d form(seat of the bike), i should do it in the later days of the challenge/course when my 3d sense improve more. And it s a good start.

Excuses first- lines are awful and wobbly because I was trying to draw these outside and its like 5 degrees my fingers were so frozen. My baby only sleeps hands free outside in the pram so that's where I draw! Took me a couple of tries just to accurately capture the shape of the dolls house dresser with the right no of drawers... Simplifying it into basic shapes was an interesting exercise in itself. Picture taken of original object in case anyone's interested. Issues that arose- not sure if it's an issue with my brain or my blobs but I kept realising I basically had the same view of my object but just rotated or back to front?! I found it hard to make a blob for a foreshortened object and had to redo the drawing because it came out so bad! Any tips on getting interesting blob shapes to begin with? I obviously don't have the creativity for it yet but need to figure out whether that's something that can be learnt/developed

Started with a few objects on hand. I can tell that my free hand approach might be causing my drawings to be wobbly. Like the left side of my drawings tend to be in a more sharper angle than the right side.