Vehicle & Props Design (Exercises)

28/8/20 - 18/9/20 (Week 1 - Week 4)
Ng Ming De (0335594)
Vehicle & Props Design (DIS61804)

Exercises

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Instructions

Exercises

Sketches Manmade & Organic 

For our exercises, we have to make some sketches of some vehicles, be it manmade or organic (animals) for practices. The idea for this exercises to generate some ideas in creating vehicles.

Here are the sketches I made:

Fig 1.1 Animals

Fig 1.2 Man-made

After that, we have to make 20 gesture drawings which are meant to be quick, as its purpose is to capture the silhouette of the vehicle. We have to make 20 for each category: Air, Land, Sea. The gesture drawings should be in line with the theme of our world we made for Character Design.

Fig 1.3 Gesture Drawings (Air)

Fig 1.4 Gesture Drawings (Land)

Fig 1.5 Gesture Drawings (Sea)

From the 20 gesture drawings, we have to narrow down to 3 from each categories: Air, Land and Sea.

After that, we can focus a bit on the value study as well as some minor details on the silhouette. Then, we have to make 5 variations from each category.

Fig 1.6 Air

Fig 1.7 Air Variations

Fig 1.8 Land

Fig 1.9 Land Variation

Fig 1.10 Sea

Fig 1.11 Sea Variation

Because some of us have difficulty in perceiving 2D to 3D, our perspective for our vehicles seem off.

So, I decided to practice on some modern vehicles using reference I found online. 

Fig 1.12 Vehicles practice

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Reflections

Experience 

I personally don't draw vehicles or geometric shapes much because it's not my style, so it was kinda out of my comfort zone to try out vehicle designing.

Observations 

Some of my classmates are also struggling a little as they too are inexperienced in this field, so I hope that we will manage to pull through and keep practicing.

Findings

I find that it is important to use reference as us two-point perspective lines so that we will be able to get the perspective of our vehicles correctly.