Add a spare tire on the front or back to practice cylinders in different orientations.
Use photos for inspiration, not for direct copying.
Draw your vehicle from a slightly different angle than your reference to practice perspective construction.
Make vehicles toy-like, simplifying details and focusing on perspective.
Start with the side view silhouette in 3-point perspective, then extrude it.
Construct wheels by approximating square planes and drawing ellipses within. Give them thickness!
Experiment with the same vehicle from multiple angles or different types of vehicles.

Level 2

Include at least one tank in your drawings to practice cylinders along all three axes.

Tanks should primarily be constructed out of boxes and cylinders.
Add simple details like headlights, a window, or more guns for enhancement.
Use the X method to ensure consistent wheel sizes.

General Tips

Keep lines light and clean in early stages to avoid messiness.
Apply "X-ray vision goggles" to visualize and construct internal parts.
Remember the techniques for constructing cylinders inside boxes.
Review previous lessons if necessary to refresh on the concepts.

Deadline: Submit by 03/28/2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!

Nancy Larson

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Well, I feel like I have been camping in this lesson of the course. There was enough new stuff that I have learned thus far especially in this Perspective segment that came together here. I reviewed past videos on a few things. Low skill in confident strokes led me to use a ruler to either correct what I drew or to lay the ground work for me to get the precision needed for this all to come together. Undoubtably I have more work to do here but in the meantime I post this. I may need to come back to this sooner than later in order to proceed with the course like I wish to do.

Alison Shelton

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Trying to brainstorm some ideas. I’m not sure I have my head wrapped around this assignment yet. These are a couple of quick sketches I did. I think I am stuck on the vehicle idea rather than visualizing how to draw cylinders. I’m thinking after finishing this class I might want to take the perspective course. I just don’t feel grounded enough in the theory. I’d add it in now but I probably need more drawing skills first.

Alison Shelton

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16h

Since it is a toy tank I decided to add a stuffed animal.

Alison Shelton

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22h

i think my biggest challenge is drawing straight light lines. Fortunately there are warmup exercises for that. I’ll keep practicing.

Alison Shelton

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I tried a couple of toy vehicles. I am struggling. Time to watch the demos. I’m sure they will help.

Wenhan Lee

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Level 1 and 2 attempts. As always, I freehanded everything. Drew some individual cylinders as well. Constructive criticism is invited. It was tough at first to properly construct cylinders inside boxes. But I eventually learned to prioritize drawing ellipses cleanly--rather than having them fit *perfectly* within the square planes.

@freeptom

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So that front wheel got quite messy, quite quickly - I need to be lighter and more deliberate with each line, rather than drawing hairy ones that become really hard to reason with. I realise the front wheel is too thick and sorta turned into a lemon shape, with too much of a point. Does anyone have any advice based on my drawings for the ellipses? Also, how is the 3 point perspective/convergences going? Any advice is much appreciated!

J M

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Alright, for anyone who has made it this far but this assignment has been nothing but pain: I feel you, it took me 3 months to get this done, and I don’t really have much to show off. I burned out. My fun hobby turned into nothing more than this class. All my drawings were just the projects. I 100% fell for the trap that Stan warns you about right at the beginning. Luckily, I didn’t put the pen down. For the last 3 months, I’ve been redoing all the assignments and drawing just for fun in my sketchbook. No end goal, not trying to get better. Just drawing. It’s been a nice break, so I am now trying to get back on the horse while making sure I don’t burn out again. The major struggle for this project was making sure all the boxes and ovals made sense with one another, meaning that the lines and angles needed to be aligned with the expected vanishing points. Drawing a box in isolation, then following the steps to draw the oval, was much easier. Granted, making sure the box was a perfect square was a challenge on its own

Melanie Scearce

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Hey JM, good to hear from you, and it's great you've been doing some sketching in your off time :) This is a strong start back at it. Nice job finding the shape of the ellipses. Double check your convergence on these wheels. The connected edge should be going back in space at the same rate as the box around the cylinder. This is tedious work, so make sure you continue to sprinkle in the fun, risk-free sketching in your practice!

Maren

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Oof, I fudged my way through this one. I got mixed up with the tank several times. While I understand the principles, applying them is a whole other beast

@yoyoy12

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10d

Elijah R

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15d

Everybody did so well with this project. All around a great job from everyone. I don’t think I did too bad myself although there is still, in my opinion lots of room for improvement. Could do will cleaner, straighter lines. Or maybe just more patience. Thanks for the lesson Proko and again you all also did amazing!

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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15d

Looks good! One thing to watch for with your ellipsis is that they touch their bounding box on all 4 sides. On a few of the wheels you could make them a touch bigger. But great job overall. Keep it up!

@bezet

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17d

Christopher Corbell

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19d

My wheeled vehicle is a classic Flintomobile design from Bedrock Protomotors.

Chuck Ludwig Reina

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15d

Yabadaba cool! Love this. Just watch your vanishing points. I've done a quick draw over, all the blue lines should converge at the horizon. Same for the green lines. Also, your wheels are a little more circular than ellipse. Make sure you find the major axis and that it is the longest part of the ellipse's face. Nice work!

David D

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20d

First time stretching towards level 2. I think my little Kei Trucks turned out pretty well. room for improvement, sure, but I feel like this assignment was the first time I felt like I have noticeable improved since the start of the drawing basics course! excited to keep going :)

Tommy Pinedo

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20d

love the trucks :D

@chrisdzy

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25d

Fun one this, hard not get carried away.

Art Stark

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27d

Third and Last Level 1 Submission.

@brimarie

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25d

As always, I love your illustrations:-)

@silver847

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27d

This was tricky!

@notapirate

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29d

MAN I HATE SCHOOL !!!!!!, anyway Im back ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), so I did this a while ago and forgot to post it (sue me), but ngl, I could NOT figure out the box method for the cylinders for the longest time, for the car that I did, it took me like a couple of tries and after like 10 tries I think ... magically it clicked in my head ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ, honestly cant wait to get back into draw (I've been given mercy from my school) \ (•◡•) /

@ironfern

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1mo

Hello! This is my submission for the assignment. I originally started with just a simple shape and added wheels but then I got in the flow and added more parts. I'd appreciate any feedback! Thank you!

VAGABOND

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1mo

Here is my first attempt I really struggled with the cylinders so that's something I will work on the future. Also looking at the other submissions I can see that there are more box like shapes that I might be able to break down further.