I understand Marshal suggested a boxy object, but I chose a toy cannon to channel my inner child (as Marshal also suggested!), and to showcase the extent and limits of my current perspective skills. This object incorporates ellipses, angled or tilted forms in space, axles, wheels, and cylinders, a good array of perspective challenges that should give a sense of how much I’ve learned so far and where I still need to grow. I apologize for the rough nature of some of the drawings, as I didn’t have the chance to clean all of them up as much as I would have liked, and I wanted to exhibit my process from blob to box to detail. I appreciate all of your inspiring assignments and insights and your excellent work and choices of subjects! Thank you all very much for your thoughtful responses!

Sneaking in a 2nd attempt just before the submission deadline. I rushed through the blobs phase on first attempt to get to boxes, but this meant some randomness in the result. Spent more time on the blobs here and really tried to pre-visualise what view each blob would represent…so more intention. Not sure I succeeded in getting more consistency - different scale vs different views vs different degrees of intended foreshortening seems to be too much to maintain consistent proportionality of the different forms to each other. Also got a bit out of my depth trying to put a sphere in the box for the head…guess that lesson is a bit further down the line 😁

I did try a few different objects and I think it is going well. I can do them in different angles. The basic course has been a good preparation for this. But I have no idea how to keep the same proportions… So I did keep the proportions in mind but I did’t worry too much about it. My main focus was just to keep drawing and becoming more comfortable drawing objects in 3d space. Making sense of how the legs of the little table connected with its shelf and drawer took a while but I think I did managed to understand it better in the end. I enjoy this and will keep working on it with more objects. Probably should try to draw a bit bigger tho. Looking forward to the upcoming lessons.

I’ve completed the assignment, but I struggled a bit with understanding how the converging lines should meet at the vanishing point. It was tricky to keep the perspective consistent in different orientations.

I think I picked something I thought would be relatively easy, but making something still look squishy was challenging! (Honestly I kept thinking I was just drawing a weird foot) Gave it a little color to translate better. Added some convex and concave to maintain that squish. Should grabbed a cat toy instead of the infamous nip naner.

I enjoyed the process of constructing the objects from an initial box - akin to solving a puzzle of sorts. Keeping track of all the lines proved difficult once or twice when drawing the garbage trucks. However, measuring things out was certainly useful in developing a more thorough understanding of the object in space, especially for the initial construction. I may attempt more drawings with the goal of relying less on measuring after constructing the initial drawing using reference. Rotating the canvas definitely helped getting consistent and longer straight lines, particularly in the guitar neck. Continuing, I plan to try and tackle simplifying more organic type objects and start experimenting with using blobs. I got the course over Christmas break and have been slowly but surely catching up. Happy to be able to join in on this assignment. Cheers!

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 (*^*)

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

Well, not quite on par with Marshals challenge and cause for celebration... 😄 and also with proportions and vanishing points off. But as a starting point anyway and I feel quite excited about it. I’m somewhat versed in drawing from observation, but when drawing from imagination the pen has hardly to touch the paper before I tear myself down not getting it right. And oh man how awesome wouldn’t it be, feeling free being able to throw more complex things down and turn it around on the page like in some of the examples. And I’m surprised as to how well the blob approach is working for different types of objects, being able to pin down shape and orientation in steps like that. First general coverage and placement with the blob, then feeling out orientation with the contour lines and perhaps an axis or two and then add in a main box in line with this and adjusting perspective.