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Lost in the Multiverse
Submit for this prompt in the next to earn a unique avatar!The dimensions have been... well, the scientific term is "rubbing" up against one another. It's caused some chafing, and there's been some... egh. Transmission. It's all very technical, and frankly, gross.
Take a character from one story, legend, myth, video game, comic, tv show, or whatever other kind of intellectual property and place them in the world of another, in a different setting, or in a different time.
Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles
Video Lectures
As the topics pertinent to this lesson tend to get pretty complicated, there are a couple video demos covering some especially important topics. I do recommend that you read the notes on the first page of this lesson before watching these videos, as they'll help prepare you for some of the topics I cover here.

Ellipses in planes
Not every ellipse we draw will inherently represent a circle in 3D space. When you're drawing them as a part of a larger construction, you have a lot of other elements with which you must remain consistent. This video goes over the criteria that determines whether an ellipse represents a proper circle, when compared against a set of vanishing points.

Constructing to scale
While Drawabox generally deals with the "good enough" school of approximation, there are cases where knowing how to construct an object to a specific scale is very useful. In this case we're still going to apply some approximation techniques, but this is still probably the most technical we ever get.

Adobe Photoshop
There are a lot of options for illustration software out there, but mine has always been Adobe Photoshop. I've been using it for nearly 20 years now, ever since I started fooling around with digital art, and it has served me well into my career, both in freelancing and in studio positions. One of the biggest advantages, in my opinion, for those jumping into digital art with Photoshop now is its accessibility. Where when I was younger, it'd cost hundreds, even over a thousand dollars for a software license, younger students can now get their feet wet with industry standard software for just $10/month with their Photography Plan.