Both scared and excited . Loved the project , this is my dream camper to go camping in . I can see there are mistakes with keeping lines in perspective . I’ll do this again . Any critique is welcome . 😎

Project - Wheels on Vehicles

First sketch of the day!

Project - Wheels on Vehicles

Straight lines with help from Photoshop, wheels by freehand.

Straight lines with help from Photoshop, wheels by freehand.

Two cars in 2-point perspective. First ones a warm-up. Doesn't really look like wheels yet, but they are at least not as squished as earlier. I also got kind of lazy and drew some parts of the wheels intuitively instead of following the x-method etc, I still get too confused by all the different lines. Next try will be a more patient one with more coherent color-coding when it comes to the line work.

First try before watching the demo, the wheels looks horrid and I got lost in some of the linework. I have no gut feeling about the placement of the major axis.

My various sketches from the most recent to the first one (a mix of level 1 and 2). I stayed a bit longer than expected on this one as I was very unsatisfied with the initial drawings. My first attempts were really bad, incorrect ellipses and wheels incorrectly placed in relation to the body. I wanted to (i) understand a bit more about ellipses and vehicle construction in general (loved “How to Draw” by S. Robertson), and (ii) combine the boxes exercises with the cylinder exercises into a “vehicle into perspective project”. All the vehicles are a mix of reference and inspiration, but I realised I gravitated towards a 3/4 POV a lot… ! I also tried inking with fine liners and inking with ballpoint pens. Inking an ellipse is way harder than expected and this is still a work in progress… but I did discover that I loved ballpoint pens. Looking back at my sketches and the critiques / demo: - I really need to ensure the major axis is perpendicular to the minor axis and not to another irrelevant line. - a very foreshortened cylinder like the tank gun can be tricky to do correctly and I believe you have to play with the ellipse opening at the end and what part of the ellipse is visible to the part that is attached to the tank body. - The more ellipses you align next to each other, the more your mistakes will show (specially looking back at my train..) - I need to find a balance between free hand / gut feeling and too much planning / construction. I guess it’s better to overly plan as a beginner. - I need to stay light on the construction lines, as erasing should not be an option (without losing helpful cues) I will probably go back to drawing vehicles once I made some progress in the basic training. Anyway, as usual any comments or feedback welcome :)

Project - Wheels on Vehicles

Attempts #1-2 before demo, #3-4 after demo. I feel like I'm understanding the perspective and minor axis, but as soon as i place a major axis and try to create the ellipse all semblance of perspective disappears. Trying to figure out what exactly the disconnect is, on to the critiques!

The far side of the interior isn't angled like the other side. Whoops. Also wheels are hard in dramatic perspective.

This was a very tough assignment for me. The “toy bus” has issues with the tires for sure. The toy truck looks better. I did not use a photo. First time doing something from imagination. I’m up for all the help anyone is willing to give. Thank you.

Fun exercise. It’s a challenge not to just go ahead and lazily guess where the shape of the ellipse is. Also keeping it clean and tidy with all the supporting lines is a great line quality practice.

I was having difficulties with pulling clean straights and ellipses, warmups helped quite a bit. It also took me some time to understand why we needed to consider minor and major axis, though I think I have the hang of it now.

This was even harder than the hands.

This is my attempt. It so hard~ but I kinna enjoy it I still struggling with long straight line it also take me too long I assume to do this project it took me an hour. I don't know if that is too long. I just use the idea of the car and change it position. I tried be creative with the wheel by turning it. Turn out it quite above my capability lol. And tips and advice is greatly Appreciate!

Hi every one, Im not sure where to post this but Ive struggled to create and enjoy the process of drawing due to perfectionism. I wanted to do character design to have put it off for years waiting until I was Good enough. Unfortunately by waiting so long to do what I actually wanted to do all along I've become better at doing studies, and drawing from observation than character design and story telling, and this gap has made me feel like an imposter. don't get me wrong studying is important and so is drawing from observation, but I almost never drew What I actually wanted to, and when I did I would criticize it harshly and tell my self to go back to studying, thinking my fundamentals were the problem. It burned me out and now Im 6 yrs in and my character designs still aren't very good. Now Im just trying to enjoy creating characters, illustrations and having fun. I think this year I've had the most growth out of all the years combined due to being willing to make mistakes and letting perfection go. If you're starting out please try not to get too caught up in the way your art looks, it will save you years. ( yes,I know Stan is always says this, Thanks Stan for awesome advice!)

here is my level 2 assignment for this project. I feel like this one has way better wheels then my level one's. I can still see some faults in there like the sphere on top, and someone I made the smaller wheel at the back a little bigger than the one at the front, and my line quality is horrible for this one, but I tried my best at the wheels. I am still very lost about this, and I mostly go on intuition. It seems I will have to spent some time on getting this particular part of drawing right