Blobs to planes. Great to watch Marshall demo multiple times. Can’t wait for more. So good to see everyone’s drawings. 2025 is the year we are all getting perspective. Thanks Marshall and the Proko team

Fun to see all the activity in here :), here myself adding some stuff to a plane doing a very loosely A-10 based plane to turn around. Has to remind myself to be sure to check constistency within the basic three sets of lines. Proportions...ah, well..

Hey all! Here is my hw for the week. Found that the orthos were super helpful here. Learning a lot about the relationships of the shapes!

Made some planes and then for fun, watercoloured them. This was a fun exercise!

Watching this demo there was a moment of fear, followed by the realisation: 'Oh, It's like the isometric exercise'. That exercise I did not find easy. It was one where I had to walk away and back again several times trying to understand how on earth seeing through cubes was meant to be easy! There just wasn't something clicking in my brain initially but I did suffer through and eventually, sort of, work it out. I didn't feel convinced I got it at the time. It felt like I had managed to fake it just enough to get to the next lesson. It was in this demo I realise I think I did get it. The fear washed away, and I felt excited at the notion of trying to draw a plane. If you had told me I'd be looking forward to drawing a plane at the beginning of this course I would have called you crazy! I have made all my friends look at it. My plane, that I drew. Wonky, sure. Basic- maybe. But it is a mechanical thingy and in different angles even. Wow. something I thought I would never begin to know how to draw. I know my line accuracy needs work but just the fact I didn't feel completely petrified approaching this exercise is a win in my books. Thank you Marshal. I am excited to keep learning. I think I just sharpened my stick into a spear.

Putting some more practice in over the weekend!

Ty so much for showing it in real time - it helped enormously! The tiny planes in the little perspective cages are the ‘before’ ones - and then the others are following along in this demo.

I'm late to the plane party due but this was a journey. You find challenges where you expect it less I suppose. So in order of events 1. I went for a simple blob approach first. I was simple and pleasant although visualizing a foreshortened blob is definitely a challenge 2. Did a blob and then boxed it. Now, what bothered me here was that the blob did show that the plane was thinner towards the back but the box did not. I tried to add a smaller box and connect them but it did not look right. 3. Plane from boxes, nice and clean and pleasant. 4. At this point it was bothering me that I couldn't visualize how something smaller at the back, with the back facing towards me, would look. So here I did some form explorations with 2 boxes. They aren't very well done but I did learn from them I think 5. This time I tried to do the plane from the back as foreshortened as I could. It's not very symmetrical because I was tired at this point, but I do think I mostly got it. I expected to finish this homework fast but the more I drew this plane the more I felt like was missing. Honestly even now I feel like I could do much more but for today I am satisfied.

I don’t take much pride in my ability to draw mechanical stuff, but I want to get better. This course is an awesome opportunity to learn. Marshall is a perspective drawing wizard! Here’s how I would break down this assignment. I’m not sure I got it all perfect yet, but I think I got the rough idea. Maybe this can help some other students too. Im sure you guys can draw some prettier planes ✈️

Y'all are killin' it. I love your planes! I'm a few days behind but I'll be tackling this and posting my own.

The blob really helped visualize the angles more easily but I had some trouble keeping the convergence consistent. Is there a way to make sure that some angles don’t converge faster than other angles that are in the same axis?

I need more patience to do things correctly, and to resist the temptation to just quickly add ink to those lines. also, In my first attempt, I experimented with line weights to create a sense of perspective, applying what I learned in the basic course.

@Marshall Vandruff Hi, I Find a simple difficulty in determining the distance of the small rear wing. I hope there are lessons that explain this soon.Thanks great lessons.

Especially loved your inside on sped-up drawings. Indeed that’s a dangerous mind-twist that can demotivate

Thanks so much for doing these demos Marshall. It personally helped me to learn more about the blob approach while watching them. I've been highly enjoying these demos a ton as well. I'm defiantly going to be continuing my practice doing this blob to plane practice sessions through the week as well as uploading them to see how I have progressed or not for funsies. I also love how you broken each detail of the plane on your approach while explaining the process. I am looking forward on giving this a shot and see how I manage since proportion is a challenge to me at the moment yet fun to learn. So be on the eye on my progress of the blob to airplane practices.

Here is a bit of the air plane, I struggled with proportion, it kept getting bigger as I drew it and added elements to the initial blob. The main part of the plane seems a bit thick on all of them. Overall I think I did a fairly decent job from imagination. Great lesson! Stuff like this is what I wanted out of the course. Thanks!

Far from perfect but learning every day! Thanks for showing me to just “go for it”!

Notes from the lesson. Love the way every part was broken down in detail. I wish more instructors and books would explain their process in this way.

First attempts. Theses are pretty fun, learned a lot from watching the demos, and I’ll definitely be doing more of these, because planes!

I love airplanes! I have a bunch of models and I doodle them during meetings and phonecalls. They are challenging in terms of perspective and memorizing proportions. These are sketches of Mig-15 and F-68 Sabres - they are early jet era planes and quite "blobb-like".