Hi, thanks for the comment.
I didn’t check the time. But for the first I worked on it for almost 5 days during my free time. I subdivided the tasks. one day I did the box, 2nd day the edge decorations, 3rd day the front lock… back side… handle… and then just put it all together. It took quite a long time since I only used the techniques that I learned from the course so far.
The soap container was simpler. I made the base by adding ready geometry in the right place and putting vertices together by removing doubles. The top part took some hours as I failed to join the geometry properly, so I had to re-do it a few times.
And after doing the first two the last one was made in maybe half an hour.
I spent a lot of time doing these, but I don’t think it was worthless. I got to understand how to modify and build meshes on a vertices level, but I must admit that I will put on hold any big projects until I learn more techniques. So that its not so time consuming.