Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles
3:51 PM, Friday October 28th 2022
Hey!
First of all, thank you so much for sharing the video that I made about Drawabox about two weeks ago, it really gave my new channel some exposure, really appreciate that and I am very glad that you liked the video!
So here is my submission for lesson 7, this one really took a while! It was very painful and fun at the same time (not sure how that works).
I've attached some additional photos with my references and ortographic proportion sketches that I did digitally on top of photo references.
While doing the first pages of vehicles (Mercedes ones) I really really struggled. Proportions were off because when doing ortographic sketches I just drew a box on top and just subdivided it. But after that I tried doing the ortographics based on wheel size like you said in the mustang demo. That really helped, but another problem still persisted - if I draw the starting ellipse of the box wrong (so I can get a perfect square) - the whole drawing won't look right, especially the wheels.
When I say "drawing the ellipse wrong" I mean not getting the right degree - which is especially difficult when I only have a few ellipse guides and limited choices of degrees (I only have 20 degrees, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60 and full circle)
But before doing page 6 I watched your video about ellipses again and reminded myself that minor axis line has to go into the vanishing points which then I tried to do after. I think it kind of worked, page 7 and 8 looks more right to me as far as ellipse degrees go.
I had to draw some drawings super small, because that was the biggest size of that particular degree in my ellipse guide. (especially page 6 where I drew Kaneda's bike from Akira movie) That's why I kind of wish there was an option to do lesson 7 digitally, because I wouldn't be limited to my ellipse guides. But I understand that if that would be an option, lot's of other problems like pressing undo would arise.
Also what about the degree shift on the same line that goes into the same vanishing point? Is there a degree shift on the same side of the wheels? I know that degree shifts on the other side of the wheels (meaning left wheel will have a different degree compared to right one), but what about the front wheel and back wheel on the same side? They are on the same plane, so they have same ellipse degree? Sorry that I wrote super this in a super confusing way when the question is pretty simple.
Anyway sorry for writing so much and basically giving feedback to myself when you are the one who should do it, but the ellipse degree question was super confusing to me and I want to make sure I understand this and also I just wanted to give some proper context on how I did this lesson.
Looking forward to get the feedback!
Best,
Saulius (MEANDI)