25 Wheel Challenge
9:02 PM, Wednesday July 3rd 2024
I was absolutely not ready for how much this challenge would kick my ass. I couldn't believe how long I took to finish it. I think it took me longer than 250 boxes and cylinders combined!
At first I thought of going through the challenge without an ellipse template. The first four wheels were drawn freehand. But it quickly became clear that the tool was simply essential to get through the challenge.
Then I took a significant amount of time to accept the fact that the ellipse template is the size it is and to just go with it (seriously though, it is so damn small). Thoughts of 3D printing a bigger template were rampant for quite some time. But I just never got around to doing that.
That and the notion I had about not drawing the exact same wheel twenty five times or even designs that are very similar to each other.
Finding references proved to be much more difficult than expected. Every design I picked took a lot of searching. Finding a happy medium of design intricacy was the hard part, most results had treads that were overwhelmingly complex or too gosh darn simple and lacking decent articulation.
There were streaks of days where I found myself not even picking up the ball point pen. But I am glad I made it nonetheless.