Touching on sped up videos was genius. Most art tutorials or drawings online are either sped up or heavily abbreviated. This led me to believe that I should be able to do everything quickly, and if I couldn't, that I was failing. Was refreshing to hear a different perspective, so I thank you, Marshall!

Went with a lil sci fi with my airplanes. But yes the blob method makes sketching vehicles much easier for experimentation.

After several tries I suddenly just ”got it”. For some reason I constantly oriented the blob-wings and blob-appendages wrong in relation to the plane body. I didn’t understand why. But then I skipped doing blob-wings and only went for one big blob for the plane body, proceeding with making a box out of it, and THEN doing the rest in a non-blob manner. It all came together. I am quite happy with the plane in the lower right, which I did in a random orientation after briefly looking at the 3D model. Addictive exercise, and this type of procedural problem solving tickles my brain and satisfies it immensely!

I tried bend it a bit

The page on the left is before watching, and on the right, after, no rulers

I really enjoyed having a play with this. I will Definitely try this with the triangles to get the angles more even

Here are my blobs to aeroplanes

At first I was drawing what I saw. Then I started constructing and that was a bit more difficult.

Here are my blobs to planes! I did the first page in record time... then took a record amount of time to finish the second. I wanted to create a scene incorporating multiple planes with gesture, and I think I succeeded, though I'd love some advice on how to sell the depth of the image as well as give it some more motion. Also: the ovoid shape in the top left gave me so much grief and I'm still not super happy with it. I'm really starting to learn the value of contour lines. They force me to think about the volume of the object I'm drawing and reveal mistakes I made in the contours. I'm going to make an effort to incorporate them in as many drawings as I can from now on.

Something that's often overlooked but incredibly helpful when starting is to make sure your initial 'blobs' closely follow the contours you're aiming for. I've experimented with using blobs only for major forms versus just using boxes, and I've personally found it most effective to try and blob out every form before committing to a hard structure. Also, I've noticed I'm having an easier time rounding corners on my boxes than keeping them sharp, which makes me wonder if I'm developing a bad habit.

Hello, here is my blobs to air planes. I’ve done this before during the drawing basics course. I like this a lot because it’s an easy way for me to make boxes in perspective and it really helps me with figure drawing.

Followed along to the demos.

This exercise helped me identify some problems I'm having with angles and foreshortening. Hopefully I can work those out with a few more study sessions!

I didn't use the 3D model as reference because I wanted a greater challenge after the last similar assignment which wasn't such a success. I think I did a much better job this time around!

I drew a few planes solo before watching this video, and finally enough, I've ended up getting to a stage where I sometimes feel like eyeballing the vanishing points is helping me get a nicer feeling drawing than when I try to accurately use my tools. Perhaps this is because I'm able to keep more parts of my plane in mind and able to tie everything in to a "big picture" rather than getting fixated on individual parts. Or maybe I've just gotten better at freehanding my straight lines 🤷‍♂️. Either way, so much fun has been had.

And it doesn’t stop there! 🍯 🐝 🤘

Calling out Marshall👀 that technique is contagious today all ideas started with blobs! love it! #sketchingoutside