Emrys

Really happy to read your positive comments and very proud to have reached this point in the course!

Thank you for all that you do and the knowledge you so selflessly share.

Hi Uncomfortable, please see below.

Hopefully worth the wait and more in keeping with the spirit of your lessons!

https://imgur.com/a/ot1eT7v

The original intention was to round off some of the placeholder edges in one final pass but the final angular form won me over.

Hope you enjoy and thank you for your time.

Hi Padfoot,

Thank you for your message, I appreciate the kind comments.

The form intersection vehicles were drawn solely with a fine liner and are completely free handed. The eight detailed vehicles, including their orthogonal views, were drawn with a black ballpoint pen and a brush pen for the shadows. The grids were meticulously constructed using a ruler and drawn super lightly which later proved very difficult to scan, all other lines were free handed including the ellipses. Perspective grid lines were traced back to actual vanishing points (extra sheets of paper were attached to track off page vanishing points and later removed) although using intuition would be my preferred choice going forward.

Images were later balanced to better highlight faint grid lines but only after scanning. All work was drawn traditionally as per the instructions.

I feel a video would only be beneficial to others if my process was a true reflection of what was being taught, at this point this is not currently the case so I need to rectify this first.

My advice to you after having completed the lesson - simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

I wish you the best of success with lesson seven and look forward to seeing your work!

Thank you, I`ll post when complete.

Have a great Christmas!

Hi Uncomfortable,

(Apologies for the late response.)

Not anticlimactic at all, in fact I appreciate your honesty.

This lesson proved quite the challenge as was expected, likely compounded by my over ambitious, curvy vehicle selection. In hindsight, although chosen with the best of intentions, that being to push myself, I now realise that their complexity only helped to further mask the true focus of this lesson and course in general.

To that end, after carefully reading your thoughtful critique, and only if you are happy to, I would appreciate the opportunity to address the points you have raised through one final vehicle submission.

Although I fully understand that practice does not stop with this lesson, and you have marked this lesson as complete, it is important for me to know that I have a solid understanding of the material and a strong foundation to build upon in the future.

Thank you always for your time.

Hello,

Apologies for my delayed response, as always I really appreciate the detailed critique and time invested to write it.

Thank you also for your kind comments despite my initial drifting from the task at hand. From page three onward I made a concerted effort to alter my approach having re-read the texture notes from Lesson 2 but you are spot on, I did ultimately get over excited and went off on a tangent. Apologies, I can see this is contrary to the aims of Drawabox.

Looking back to the advice you offered earlier in the course of slowly working through the 25 Texture Challenge in tandem with the other lessons now makes a lot more sense and would have no doubt helped when tackling those tyres! I`ll be sure to re-introduce texture studies back into my practice.

Going forward, I will be especially mindful of the important role cast shadows play and that simply implying texture not only helps to unify the final image but also makes larger tasks far more manageable.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction and your valuable time, really looking forward to the next lesson.

Best regards,

Thank you for taking the time to reply, very much appreciated and helpful going forward.

Hi Uncomfortable, hope you are well.

Thank you for taking the time to carefully critique my work, all input is very much appreciated and the points you have raised spot on.

Regarding my hesitancy whilst drawing ellipses, I am ghosting but also very conscious of trying to over correct my curves, mid way through, as they are being drawn. Here`s hoping the 25 Wheel Challenge will help to build my confidence/commitment in this area. (It may also break me!)

I will be sure to include my orthographic plans for lesson 7, I`m glad to hear that my work reflects that they were used for this lesson too.

Onward to tools, I did only use a single black ballpoint pen for all drawings other than the 3 initial pages of Form Intersections. I did however consciously vary my pressure early on to help with readability as the number of visible lines was becoming bewildering.

Following this, one question I would like to ask if I may? If a part of a construction is not visible from the viewers perspective, and in no way helps to inform other vital aspects of a drawing, can it be safely left out in an effort to aid clarity? A good example would be the wheels on the opposite side of a vehicle, they themselves requiring many lines for accurate representation/construction. Apologies if this is covered in lesson 7.

Thanks again for your time, help and words of encouragement.

All the best.

Hello,

Apologies for the short delay in getting back to you.

Just wanted to thank you for your invaluable critique and the time you have put into writing it, always a pleasure to read and always most helpful :)

The points you have highlighted will greatly benefit my future work and the detail you have provided has further helped to better solidify my understanding of the course material.

Thank you!