Airplanes on freehand grids / trying to catch up :D (included a wide angle as well)

I followed along to the demos. The back wings on the plane in the first image look a bit wonky…

Drawing with grids is like riding a bike with training wheels… but I still fall off! I'm super behind in the course, and I wish I had more time to do lots of drawings for each assignment. Still, this is what I managed to do. At first, I went straight for the airplane. I finally got one I liked—after erasing it three times! Then I switched gears and started drawing random boxes to get used to the grid. Next, I tried boxes that followed the proportions of the airplane and the little house. Only after that did I try the airplane again, and I was much happier with how it turned out. I also discovered that in certain parts of the grid, strange distortions happen… so I'm learning to be more careful with that too!

my guest 3/4 view was sobering since I thought I knew it but it wasn’t working . the grid helped , i had a hard time concentrating and having to Go through the form , guessing proportions. I know my ortho is not perfect ( no truly a back and top view, missing info ) I drew it from an object I have at home which is more complex that expected I like the result it does look a bit cartoonish thoughw

I don't know how to feel about grids. Freehand ones are fine, but using any type of digital grid tool is a UX nightmare. I used Clip Studio perspective grids here and spent much more time setting them up than actually drawing the object.

7/10/25 The first one was without a Grid, the rest was with a grid. I struggled with the binoculars because it was very cylindrical and especially it can move! It isn’t a stiff form. So it moves on all axis and it tapers :’ ) . To add I haven’t watched the demos yet

Dear Marshall and my fellow classmates, Sorry that I was not actively participating in this course in the last 2-3 months, as life has been difficult lately. Finally, I got a month to draw as much as I want. But this pattern will last for at least 1 more year. I will try my best to absorb the course material as much as possible though. Here is part of my assignment from the last 1-2 months. The first 3 pics and the last 1 were done last week. The 3rd and 4th were done after watching the demo, definitely go better in managing the proportion. Tried to simplify the form, using a simple blob and box approach. Kind of struggling for the Pokémon in the last pic, as it is really organic, and so many plane cuts, I tried my best to consider how much plane I am seeing and simplified some planes, but yeah, that's difficult.

I haven't been sharing my drawings since i feel behind a little bit and was thinking it didn't matter because I always miss the crit deadlines but now i think that's very silly.... I think I was just intimidated but how skilled everyone is! I was kind of shocked how easily this came to me. Even though I've studied perspective before, I still always struggle with foreshortening and get very confused? overwhelmed by all the lines that grids cause. It felt really good to not have that happen this time. Drawing the orthos really helped with understanding the forms and made it much easier to visualize the parts later. I am still struggling a bit with extreme foreshortening and overlapping shapes, I think, but i'll keep practicing :) Does anyone have any tips? For this class, I adopted a small gecko toy I got in a gatcha machine in Japan. It articulates really well and, I suppose, can add a level of difficulty for it but the spots where the parts connect also provide nice visual reference points. I was originally practicing from a stuffed toy but I think I had chosen something that was too safe; it wasn't particularly challenging so I don't think I was taking full advantage of the lessons... I'm glad I chose this toy even though, at first, I was afraid it would be too difficult for me to draw.

Combining grids and melted pancakes :D

Did an ortho of a monster that's a simplifed version of MapleStory's Wooden Mask monster. 1st attempt: Wasn't sure of how to set the grid and didn't pay too much attention to the proportions 2nd attempt: Created a grid after first creating a box in perspective to get an idea of the vanishing points, then using the box lines as reference to create the grid 3rd attempt: More extreme angles

Sorry for the ugly planes :') It was hard for me to do it completely freehand while keeping an eye on the proportions.. I need to practice more of this, while overcoming the frustration of not being able to do it as well as I would expect.

First I attached my zero point perspective drawing from the prior lesson. It was a drawing of the Proko skull I got as a christmas gift. Then I tilted it, used it as reference and tried to use structure to reproduce it. After some iterations I did the skulls without reference and used the skull only to control my work afterwards. Palpable progress 😍

More practice. A perfect drawing wasn’t the goal according to the assignment (phew), so I focused more on the box-subject thing. Worked mostly free handed. Gets tricky when want to get back to it after a break and you just got off the bike…

Had a horrible two weeks, which left me with only a few hours, mostly drained and disheartened. I thought I had time until the 22th, but I realized I was a day late. Oh well. At least I didn't give up! These were only a few of the oblique/3d drawings I attempted, and not the best, but they are the ones I feel had the most amount of mistakes to look at. So might as well upload those. They are also much more based on feeling than careful measuring (a trap I fell afterwards, as I felt my intuition was bad).

Two of the watercolor palette from the ortho views plus I followed along w/ the demo.

After following along the demos, I drew the plane model as if we're looking up at it from an extreme angle. The proportion seems to be off, and in the rough version with the construction lines, the box for the left wing looks wonky - even though I think its edges converge at the VPs. Is it because the VPs are too close?