Assignment - The Secret of Simple Forms | Sketch and Final

I scanned these drawings and rotated them to the appropriate orientation, but for some reason they will not maintain said orientation when I place them here. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Tried some too... I always find myself ending up with a different angle than in the model after making the blob work. Propably my first blockin is already off.

I wanted to kindly inquire about the anticipated completion date for the course. Having invested in this program, I was particularly excited about the prospect of an updated version of Marshall’s old perspective course, as I deeply appreciate his insightful analysis of images and his ability to break down visual concepts. While I’ve enjoyed the segments where Marshall analyzes images and explains their compositional elements, I was hoping for more detailed guidance on foundational techniques—such as placing vanishing points, constructing accurate squares and cubes, and mastering ellipses.

First try on this, used something simple like my eraser, took many photos of it in different angles, but only posted some of them of as to not bury the actual drawing page among them, I think my line quality and confidence has improved thanks to the line exercises by Peter, but I still work too dirty, have to work on that. Any criticism is appreciated! Gonna check the blob method video now.

A big reason why I decided to join this course was to see other people's work and assignments and learn from each other! I would love to get some criticisim and advice on my work as well since I'm the only one in my family and friend groups who even thinks about drawing, it's difficult to get a sense of community out here. I tried to keep every sketch at less than two minutes which you may criticise as well if you feel like I should settle down a bit.

I am late to submit but I was caught up with other lessons and life. Today I took the time to work on everything at once. So everything is mixed together. I decided on scissors and barely scrapped the surface of this matter. But this is what I got.

I did this one with just fun and intuition before seeing the demonstration next lesson, so I could make my mistakes thus they are not great (and proportions are all over). but when I started this exercise yesterday I could not rotate from imagination (only one train is based on an object rest are made up) and I’m proud of myself for figuring it out. after a few failed attempts, I think I am starting to get it. How cross contours on the blobs can be the plane lines dividing boxes in half, how they tell us the three axes if we look carefully, and they even show how foreshortened the boxes should be. And I’m starting to see things less as lines and more as objects with fronts, backs, tops, bottoms and sides. This was very illuminating. I knew some of the theory, but it didn’t make proper sense until now. (it’s hard to explain haha). Still need mileage because my vps are off in a lot of places. Going to head into the demonstration next to see if I was right :3

I did about 50 of those but this page was the last bunch and the thing that I've started paying attention too by the end is preserving the proportions so it actually looks like the same object in different angles and not just boxes. I will keep practicing!

Hello, for this assignment I started with a matchbox, something very simple that would help me understand my frequent mistakes. Then I moved on to a ceramic house and finally to a mouse, which was not easy at all. While making them, I watched the following video, The Blob Approach, and tried to apply that method to the mouse.

Hi, Please feel free to have a browse through some of my drawings and feedback is always welcome! I'm going to ramble on a bit with my experience with this assignment. This was a whole lot of fun, although it did take me a while to get through! I spent roughly a day on each page, except for the planes which took longer. I found that drawing very boxy shapes like my cat eared note holder, toy train and earphones case were not too difficult to draw. They felt very much like drawing simple boxes with a few little marks here and there to show a change in form. the clock was much more challenging as I was turning a cylinder into a box and that kept throwing me off from getting the positioning of the alarm bells right. it was also really difficult to figure out how I wanted to rotate those alarm bells so I settled for just having them float on top of the main body and focussed instead on the perspective of the simpler forms. Finally, the planes! I took these on as a challenge after watching Peter Han draw his train! It was a lot of fun and I noticed a shift in how I look at objects from "this is a plane" to "this is a war plane designed to be light, fast and powerful. it needs to mount its guns here..." and so on. that part was fun! getting the perspective right was much more challenging though! I'm finding that trying to fit multiple boxes in the same world and make them look like they're aligned is so much more challenging than drawing individual boxes. And the scaffolding of perspective lines can be really easy to get lost in if I'm not focussed. this was also my first time using tracing paper and though I liked how clean my results ended up, It did make me realise that i quite liked the charm of having some underlying construction lines. anyways, lots of learning and lots of realising how much i have yet to learn! I will do my best to get my future assignments done in time for the critique :)

Spatula, salt shaker, brush (simplified), ink bottle and finally I challenged myself with a hair clip. I got close with most of them! Though my cylinder-drawing skills could use some more practice.

I initially chose to draw my microphone, but I found it challenging to use squares to represent the circular part where the stands connects and to get the angles of the stands just right. So switched to a simpler subject, a dog toy

This has been a painful realization that I need to exercise my visual memory more It was fun though

Nothing interesting around so I had to work from pictures

Here's where I am at! Life has been busy: new job, travel, family... fun but busy. I am catching up on assignments and decided to draw my ink bottle. I struggled quite a bit and used this forum to get inspired by you all. I need to continue to practice, but really did have a lot of fun with this exercise. I am enjoying the process as much as I can. I notice that I struggle with defining my 'system' in correct proportions. My ink bottle has the base of a rectangular prism, only slightly longer than wide; however, I struggle to consistently draw a rectangular prism with that proportion. With this exercise I chose to adhere to the virtue of the box rather than the virtue of the object. Once I did that, I had a ton of fun distorting and fitting my ink bottle into boxes, even if the proportions were wildly wrong. I will continue to practice to get better, but wanted to share my update to keep myself honest.

Work has been hectic lately so couldn't find time to do these assignments on time,but i still want to share these with the community!,i like how some of these turned out and some not but i don't know how to do orthographic constructions that well so i hoping i will get a grasp of them in the future lessons😁

At first I've tried an xbox controller, but it was hard to simplify into a few simple shapes. It definitely requires more study and more complex approach to get it right, I don't think that's in the scope of this assignment. It does make me appreciate the designers more, who made it both appealing to the eye and ergonomic. So I've drawn a guitar and a plane, they were a lot more easier to do.

I’ve got to do admit this was a confronting assignment I was not looking forward to. Drawing difficult things feels like a mental internal struggle of insecurity. But I’m proud. I at least did the bare minimum. side question: some people have the label “Help wanted” , but how can you add that?