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Drawing wheels on vehicles is an excellent way to practice cylinders and reinforce what we've already learned.
Level 1
Draw a simple car, bus, RV, or truck focusing on the wheels.
- 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!
very tricky this one, not convinced by the version I’m sharing below. Will be doing another version of this exercise later today.
Here are my vehicles following the demo. You really do learn something.
Well, here are my vehicles... I struggled quite a bit with the tank... I'll make more attempts... I hope you like them!
I struggled a lot... I drew the truck with a ruler because nothing else worked, then tried the car without a ruler.
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Excellent, these are looking good! I love the extreme exaggerated shapes in the tank, these are a lot of fun! Your ellipses are looking pretty good too, but remember to keep the Major Axis of the ellipse perpendicular to the Z-Axis of the cylinder. It helps me to think of the Barbell example from the How to Draw Cylinders lesson https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-draw-cylinders-and-ellipses
When the plates aren't tightened fully to the bar they tilt off axis and the bar is difficult to control. Here's a draw over showing where some of the ellipses have come off axis in the tank barrels. Hope this helps, keep up the good work!
Struggled getting my angles correct with the body of the car but feel pretty okay with my ellipses.
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The wheel on the roof of the car has incorrect perspective if it's meant to be sitting on the roof and not falling down, which is how it kind of appears now. I believe it should look a little more like the one on the trunk. It should be less angled and you'll be able to see more of the side than the top of it :)
the cylinders are indeed hard, i feel like it would be way easier for me to draw this traditionally
I struggled a lot with this project. I started by attempting the full car with wheels and I found it way harder than I expected and just couldn't get the perspective right, so I went back and did a page of practice ellipses before having another go at the car and it helped a lot! I ended up doing multiple cars because I felt like to really grasp this assignment I needed a few attempts.
After doing a few cars I felt confident enough to try the level 2 assignment, which i don't normally do, i consider myself a level 1 guy. It was definitely a lot more challening and i can tell that my tank wheels are not perfect but i'm glad I gave it a go!
Sorry team, I’m stuck and need help again, please. 🥲
Can anyone check my lines and let me know if I got them correctly? I can’t seem to get the ellipse right using these points, so I’m wondering if I plotted the points wrongly.
Also, can you please let me know if my understanding is correct?
1. The minor and major axes will cross/pass through the middle point of the plane, as that midpoint is also the midpoint of the ellipse.
2. The minor axis direction is toward the vanishing point (of the depth).
3. The major axis is perpendicular to the minor axis (meaning the angle between the major and minor axes will be 90 degrees.
Additionally, are there any tips when it comes to drawing the ellipse that touch all these 8 points? I have tried many times but I just can’t seem to connect them to draw a nice ellipse.
Really appreciate your kind guidance and advice here. Thank you so much! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hi Vanessa! I also struggled a lot with this project, it took a lot of failed attempts before I felt like my ellipses were looking correct.
I think all the points you listed are indeed correct, the only thing which I belive you might be misunderstanding is that the ellipse does need need to touch all 8 points on the plane, only the 4 created by the vertical and horizontal lines. The other 2 created by the major and minor axis define where the widest parts of the ellipse should be, but they do not need to touch the edges on those 4 points. I hope that makes sense!
If you're still struggling what helped me was just doing the box ellipse inside a box many times before I moved on to wheels because it gets very hard very quickly when trying to do the wheels on a car. I tried once and failed so then I went back and did a page of practice ones before going back to the car and it helped a lot.
Had to use procreate drawing perspective assist to draw the boxes. But I still find my cylinders weird but I’m to sure what went wrong.
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Nice job Vanessa. Cylinders in perspective is one of the trickiest things, and often feels "off" especially when they are floating in space. I think drawing in some of the construction lines, even if using the perspective tool would really help give us some ... perspective! (Sorry bad joke!). But I do think that might help make them feel less off in your eye. To me, they look pretty good! Nice work.
Just to confirm. The minor axis here is in blue, and the major in red. Is the major perpendicular in 2D to the minor axis? As in, its like an X shape?
(when someone says perpendicular, my brain goes, what axis? xyz? or is it in 2D?)
And then the circle is stretched towards the major axis, and squished along the minor?
At first, drawing the major axis and trying to place it correctly was really throwing me off, and so my ellipses felt more right when I was not drawing it. After watching the demos, I drew some more ellipses and understood better the use case for it. Since I'm very much eyeballing the placement of it from the center of my ellipse, I think it's more useful in getting the right angle for the ellipse than anything else.
I know these are not perfect, but I think that with my renowned understanding the next ones will be better.
After struggling with the level 1 but really wanting to draw a tank, I gave it a shot. So pleased I did!
Far from 'good' - My ellipses are still very wobbly (but finally getting a little more intuitive) and I realised my turret was off center far too late... But overall definitely pleased finally after the last few days of hair tearing!
Trying to get myself alway from the safety net a ruler provides for checking convergence, so I've made more mistakes but hopefully building more intuition.
Would have fixed the wobbly top but it was near midnight! Could already see mistakes in the ellipses as soon as morning hit.
I mean... I found the perspective exercises to date all just clicked. For whatever reasons here though I just kept making mistakes. And it's amazing how a tiny error can compound so bad.
I really want to draw a tank too... May give that a go next but feeling defeated so far!
Ended up leaning more into 2 point perspective and maintaining (fairly) parallel verticals to simplify but still was tricky (although I can still see some off in the sketch from the underside - probably explains a lot)
Its odd, I do lots of circle drills and things go ok there.
But here my ellipses are wobbly and just don't look right. I think my brain is going into overdrive so I have to slowly draw each section, overthinking Vs a nice smooth ghosted ellipse.
Here is my assignment,
I feel like I progressed between each drawing. I made a lot of mistake but I think I understand them. I will try this exercise again later : )
