#drawing

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been trying to learn to draw lately, initially inspired by a desire to be able to properly convey the headaches with pictures in my head to on-paper representations. Plus I’m eager to increase my practice in visualizatio nand intuition.

But drawing references tend to be oriented towards the more popular subjects of nature, people, animals. Very few people are as enamored by the mechanical movements of machines as I am, apparently. As a result - references can be hard to come by for practice.

Enter these sources; not just for drawing practice, but to also inspire mechanical solutions to your own projects.

Currently I’m going through the struggles of learning to draw from a very poor foundation of sub-stick figure talent and primarily spurred on by the desire to convert the vague ideas in my head to actual designed physical objects, this video spoke to me. The creator walks through the creaton of his clay making set, all to allow him to shape tiny, organic shapes that he can then photograph to act as “good-enough” references for CAD modeling design. A simple idea, well executed.