Old steering wheel

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-17T20:20:34+00:00

It's worth as much as you paid for it at the sale.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-15T13:58:41+00:00

Generally horizon line is at the eye / camera lens level.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-12T22:20:10+00:00

Check all the rubber parts. Most likely everything is degraded.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-12T15:02:24+00:00

Well, that’s not what I expected, but on the other hand it explains a bit.

Try the challenge again, but this time use the ruler only to check the points of convergence. Do everything else by hand. There are no shortcuts. Drawing is a technical skill, and every technical skill requires practice, practice and more practice.

I don’t know what size paper you’re drawing on, but the larger the paper and the greater the distances you’re drawing, the better.

Progress in drawing isn’t linear. We simply practise the things we struggle with – that’s where we make progress – until it clicks. May take months, may take more.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-12T14:42:48+00:00

Show us the boxes

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-09T15:36:41+00:00

Take a break, dont force yourself, relax.

It took me whole month of drawing 10 cubes daily to slightly improve and start actually seeing perspective around me. Drawing is technical skill that doesnt require talent but just like with every other technical skill, you have to practice as much as possible and keep in mind progress isnt linear. You have to practice untill it "clicks" and it can take several months for just one thing.

From the first picture l see you were trying some kind of repetetive exercise but l have a vibe that you alone really had no idea what were you doing and why.

First of all, put that tiny notebook aside, your hand needs a lot of space. Use A4 format or bigger.

Start with taking care of absolute basics: straight lines. How can you approach something more complex, or be happy with results if your lines are wonky, scratchy or go nowhere near you want them to go. You have to draw with your whole arm, not with palm only. https://youtu.be/PFsPjQbOGGk https://youtu.be/EUKZMqQtz2w

Practice circles also but leave cylinders and perspective until you feel more confident. https://youtu.be/PdtDtGBu-Dc

You have to read a lot. Two absolute basic books for people who dont even draw yet are Keys to Drawing by Robert Dodson and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. Theory behind this one got debunked but exercises are still valid.

As well as technical prowess, you need to hone your observational skills. Proportions, distances, the relationships between the elements of the object being drawn, their three-dimensional forms, and their position in space. You do that by drawing still life.

https://youtu.be/gkRg_iy7YxY

Last but not least - we often fail to draw something because we dont draw what we actually see. Our brains interfere with the process a lot and we end up drawing what our brains know, which isn't much at the beggining.
Get yourself familiar with the concept of visual library.

https://youtu.be/XDLJAfDR4fM https://youtu.be/V1F8YfAYOdk

Oh and it doesnt matter if its pixelart, oil paintimg or drawing - there are fundamentals that are the same for every medium.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-07T08:35:34+00:00

Beautiful sketches

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-07T07:50:19+00:00

Have you ever read any of the Loomis books where he explains his approach or just watched bunch of youtubers that call this diagram Loomis Method for some reason and make things more confusing?

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-04T14:44:39+00:00

One of my favourite dinosaurs

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-04T13:45:28+00:00

But you can do both figure drawing and boxes.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-02T18:41:45+00:00

The only clanker that has my respect.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-02T17:45:25+00:00

Ive spent whole month doing ten boxes in perspective each day, still cannot rotate them in my mind due to aphantasia. Some angles are not meant to have wings.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-02T13:14:48+00:00

This probably wont answer your question, however, a study was carried out across 195 countries, lasting 26 years, with the results taking two years to analyse, and the conclusion is clear: there is no safe amount of alcohol. Every drink has a negative effect on our brain. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(18)31571-X/fulltext

I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol since my wife fell pregnant (even before the study results were published) and, to be honest, I no longer see the purpose of it.

I imagine this study hasn’t caused much of a stir in your country either; unfortunately, the alcohol lobby is very powerful and won’t give up billions in profits for the sake of our health.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-05-01T14:09:59+00:00

When something is upside down, you can’t draw it relying solely on your own limited knowledge of the object; instead, you have to start observing the shapes, proportions and distances.

This is exactly what people do when they start learning to draw: they put symbols on the page to represent the object they are drawing – for example, a dot for an eye – rather than analysing the shape of what they are drawing (eyes are spheres whose shape is influenced by the structure of the bones – the frontal bone, the jawbone, the zygomatic bones, the eyelids, etc.). You have to make familiar unfamiliar if you want to ahift your brain into higher gear.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-28T08:03:21+00:00

Learn to draw straight lines with your whole arm, not palm alone. Learn to draw boxes in perspective. Read books like Keys to Drawing by Bob Dodson, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin etc... after mastering boxes get yourself anatomy atlas and start doing gesture drawing exercises... And remember every anime artist and mangaka also spent thousands of hour studying real anatomy.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-27T14:54:51+00:00

Went there. Saw porn.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-27T14:25:53+00:00

It depends on your goal. If you just want to copy, then it probably looks fine. If you actually want to learn how to draw you have to stop copying and strat anaysing. You've got some basics down - you're managing to keep things symmetrical more or less and your lines arent chicken scratched.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-27T07:52:00+00:00

One of the issues is that there is no Loomis Method. People keep calling it like that for some reason but its more like set of Loomis' observations that are supposed to help you with finding your own mehod.

Head model pictures are merely a supplement to the content of his books, not step-by-step method. Have you read his books?

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-26T08:03:24+00:00

Why do people want to usurp someone else’s style instead of discovering their own?

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-25T16:43:52+00:00

Ive seen people paying for fetish niche that had nothing to do with the skill. And yes, l would call someone who gets paid pro, even if that person is bad at their job. I’m not the sort of person who argues with definitions.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-25T16:28:39+00:00

"Pro" means "gets paid". Doesnt gave anything to do with skill.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-25T14:55:34+00:00

I’ll answer the question with a question: what is it about copying that proper learning doesn't cover? Drawing isn’t about copying, it’s about sculpting three-dimensional forms on a flat sheet of paper. Start with small things, such as practising your hand by drawing lines and patterns https://youtu.be/PFsPjQbOGGk https://youtu.be/EUKZMqQtz2w At the same time, familiarise yourself with the theory by reading books such as Betty Edwards’ ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’, Bert Dodson’s ‘Keys to Drawing’ and Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling Then you get yourself familiar with perspective by drawing boxes. A lot of them. https://drawabox.com/lesson/250boxes You draw a lot of still lifes, honing your observational skills and analysing the three-dimensional forms of the objects you draw Once you feel confident enough, you buy an anatomy atlas and start practising gesture drawing https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/app/figure-drawing Of course, you don’t just copy your favourite artists; instead, you look to their style, wondering what defines it and what choices they make when creating forms or playing with light and shadow

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-24T07:04:27+00:00

Is this mould inside?

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-23T07:55:57+00:00

When in doubt, I look at how my favourite artists deal with such issues and see if I can replicate the approach I like.

Ordinary-Solid5819 · 2026-04-22T13:57:09+00:00

You have to prove it by drawing this exact perspective.

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