Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles

12:43 PM, Sunday August 9th 2020

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7:40 PM, Monday August 10th 2020

Whew! It's been a pretty long road, but look at that. You've gotten here to the finish line.

Starting with your form intersections, while your ellipses are still a touch on the loose side, the spatial reasoning skills and the general understanding of how these forms all relate to one another within 3D space that you're demonstrating here are exceptional. The intersections feel extremely confident and solid, and absolutely sell the sense that everything we're looking can be picked up and manipulated in our hands.

Looking at the cylinders in boxes next, these do have a little more room for improvement - on the top left there, the edges of the cylinder seem to diverge as they move further back, and the top right definitely looks a lot more squashed than it should (resulting in the line extensions being pretty far off the mark). Still, these are normal things that you'll continue to improve upon with practice. The one along the bottom is looking great.

Now, moving onto the actual meat of this lesson, your vehicles are by and large extremely well done. They're not perfect, but they do convey a sense of solidity and a grasp of the process alongside really crisp results that make me deeply proud of what you've achieved. Your initial form intersection constructions do a great job of establishing each of these objects in a simplified, but by no means simplistic format, focusing on the core principles of solidity and establishing clear relationships in space.

Looking at the pair of ships from destiny, I think both are laid out quite well, although looking closer at the first one there is a touch of looseness and a somewhat clearer use of an "underdrawing/clean-up pass" approach that we discouraged way back in Lesson 2. Admittedly in this lesson it becomes a little more complicated (specifically when it comes to the subdivision lines, which this drawing doesn't actually use very much of), but as a rule when employing constructional drawing try and focus on the idea that we don't want to go back in to replace aspects of our linework. We add line weight to draw attention to marks that already exist, but in essence the idea is that every mark we put down introduces a new form to the construction, and those forms are part of the final result. There's no separation between "sketch" and "final drawing". It's all one and the same.

Continuing onto the jeep, the only significant issue here comes down to the wheels. I guess you weren't able to get your hands on an ellipse guide, which is unfortunate, but I won't dwell on the issues that resulted from having to freehand things. Sven and I are still looking for ways to source ellipse guide sets that we can make available to students for cheap, but alas that'll be a ways off.

While I do think that your shelby mustang demo drawing got a little squished length-wise, I still really like how this one came out. You did a great job of capturing the personality of the vehicle, and pinning down a lot of its specific character elements. In this regard I feel the camaro came up a little short - just on matters of character, rather than specific aspects of construction. Some contributing factors there include the proportional width of the vehicle as a whole, and little things like the vertical posts in the driver's side window area appearing quite thick. It still looks believably like a car you'd see on the road, but with the wider stance making it feel beefier, rather than quick and maneuverable like the reference images.

I think you really pulled out all the stops with your formula 1 race car, specifically when it comes to pushing the subdivisions. The wheels are still a bit wonky, but the rest of the structure's come along quite nicely and captures a good sense of solidity. I especially like the way the spoiler in the back came out, although something along the side feels a little strange design-wise. It looks like you've given it something of a wing, but I don't see anything corresponding with it along the other side.

All the same, I think your work throughout this lesson is coming along quite well. While there is certainly plenty of room for growth, that will inevitably come as you continue to truck on forwards. As far as this course is concerned, I say to you, congratulations. You've completed Lesson 7, and with it, you've joined the hallowed halls of the few that have officially completed the course as a whole.

I hope you keep up your great work. You as always have the option of tackling the remaining optional challenges, but those are by no means required. Best of luck on whatever you choose to get into next!

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
11:30 PM, Monday August 10th 2020

Thanks comfy!!!! i really really appreciate all the critiques and the course, thankyou for all the work in critiquing, all the best for the future :takenrg:

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