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Lesson 7: Applying Construction to Vehicles
Video Lectures
As the topics pertinent to this lesson tend to get pretty complicated, there are a couple video demos covering some especially important topics. I do recommend that you read the notes on the first page of this lesson before watching these videos, as they'll help prepare you for some of the topics I cover here.
Ellipses in planes
Not every ellipse we draw will inherently represent a circle in 3D space. When you're drawing them as a part of a larger construction, you have a lot of other elements with which you must remain consistent. This video goes over the criteria that determines whether an ellipse represents a proper circle, when compared against a set of vanishing points.
Constructing to scale
While Drawabox generally deals with the "good enough" school of approximation, there are cases where knowing how to construct an object to a specific scale is very useful. In this case we're still going to apply some approximation techniques, but this is still probably the most technical we ever get.
The Science of Deciding What You Should Draw
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.