Effective Vehicle Design assignments
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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.
