25 Wheel Challenge
9:27 AM, Wednesday March 22nd 2023
25 wheels, ready to go!
I'm sure you hear this a lot, but I did feel a biiit limited with the ellipse guides during this challenge.
The best option I could seem to find (at least in the UK) were the Jakar ellipse guides - I got the Isometric set with the largest ellipse being 35mm and a set that covers 20° to 60° but only sizes up to about 20 ~ 21mm.
So, all the wheels are oriented the same and at the same size more or less. I did have a little difficulty when it came to adding details at this scale (especially in the centre of the wheels where there is a lot of concentrated and overlapping detail) but overall there is not much degree shift between each side of a wheel due to their relatively narrow width, so lack of degree options was not the biggest issue here, I suppose. I'm slightly worried about Lesson 7 where this might be more of an issue! I may be getting ahead of myself there, though...
Aaanyway - I guess I just have to get better at free-handing ellipses! Cylinders are a regular feature in warmups so I guess it will even out eventually. Apologies if that was a bit of a ramble down a long road to nowhere! I should have just let the wheels do the talking...
I'm off to have a coffee, thanks in advance for your time!
C