Effective Vehicle Design assignments
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@lucy_gow Oh, thank you - that actually really means a lot. I struggle big time! Even to the point where it's paralysing and I don't draw for days or sometimes weeks.
I have huge admiration for artists who are there showing up doing the thing. I watched a video by Will Terry where he basically trash-talked his old art but pointed out that even though it was "bad", he still got by making decent income as an illustrator in spite of it. It really reassured me that I don't need to become Leonardo Da Vinci in order to put myself out there and earn money for my work.
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@PenAndrew Oh, I love that! Thank you for the encouragement.
Haha, I think the teaching English boat sailed away a looong time ago. But it's funny, while studying Chinese I met my (Chinese) husband, and now have two kids who I can actually help learn Mandarin since I still retained some of that basic knowledge.
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@Meekipink @lucy_gow @Eliana-Bastidas Yes, i think it is normal to struggle with art as ultimately I believe art is an inner process first so there's a lot of hang ups tied to being oneself and being an artist and what that means to people in the world, good and bad. I think you can't avoid these problems with art, all you can do is accept that making art can be a vulnerable process, therefore you must treat yourself kindly. Art has supported me my whole life in terms of being there for me since childhood. I wish too that it could also be the vehicle to expressing my inner world and sharing something good with people, and eventually making money(in order of importance).
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Hooray! I finally finished the final assignment for this course. I was really stuck because I'm terrible at drawing cars. I actually borrowed How to Draw by Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling to try to work on it. I did some of the exercises and drew some of the toy cars around the house. I'm just not very good at it. This is one of my practice drawings:
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Then I did the assignment. I couldn't resist trying to do something related to Rabbit Road Race (the competition this month). I couldn't think of a story, but wanted to do a car that a rabbit might have somehow made themselves from found materials.
Rabbits are pretty small, so it seemed like a traffic cone would be roughly the right size. It would have to be a pedal car, because you couldn't put an engine in a traffic cone, surely? Also, I imagined that they would have upholstered it with stuff from a picnic basket, and maybe the pedals are made out of cutlery.
These are my references:
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And this is my final assignment. I started off with the intention of using a perspective grid well and making everything correct, but I messed it up. Still, on the whole I like it and am happy with it.
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@lucy_gow SO CUTE!! That's adorable that these little rabbits are pinching traffic cones to make their own pedal cars, haha.
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@Meekipink Thank you!
When I started it I had no real ideas, and now I'm thinking I might draw them racing away from where they've been stealing/ransacking a construction site. It's possible I can learn to be more optimistic through these courses. I keep feeling like I have no chance of coming up with anything. Then I force myself to do the twenty thumbnails and I end up with an idea after all.
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@lucy_gow That's lovely and a really good concept!
I'm not the most optimistic of people either, but the more you create, the more you find yourself able and wanting to create. Keep going at it!
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@lucy_gow these are all so wonderfully creative! You've definitely made me want to take this class! I think my favorite has to be that reindeer helicopter
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@JQ Thanks very much for the encouragement. Same to you.
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@Kristen-Lango Thank you! It is such a fun course, definitely worth doing, even though I find drawing vehicles quite challenging. I look forward to seeing what you create when you take it.
