Drawing Toy Airplanes

Drawing shapes had been fun but it is a bit bland to continuously draw. My lack of experience prevents me from drawing something as complex as a car. I have tried a few times but it had some embarrassing outcomes. So I decided to draw something simpler again: a toy airplane. I used one of the book's sketches as an example and started the project. When you start to draw something in perspective, "loose sketches [helps you] focus more on what you are drawing than on how you are drawing it" (Robertson, and Bertling 132). Loose sketches are basic sketches and models of what you are going to draw. It helps you visualize how you are going set up your lines and drawing. I started my drawing with an ellipse in the front for the nose of the plane. I created a grid and a vertical plane to draw the body.

I sketched out the body and set up a horizontal plane to add the wings. To add the wings, I first drew two-dimensional wings on the horizontal plane and used vertical lines to move the wings to the body.

I used a blank sheet of paper to sketch the plane and shade it in. Drawing aircraft is very useful in practicing the basic techniques because every form can be displayed through X-Z-Y section lines (Robertson, and Berling 123). Starting off with simple airplanes can help you get into more advanced designs that can eventually come straight from your imagination. 

What are some techniques that help you improve drawing objects?

Robertson, Scott, and Thomas Bertling. How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination. CA: Design Studio, 2013. Print.