Turned Wheel Help

[madpencil]

Would any of you guys care to share the technique to turn the wheels of a vehicle in perspective. I've always eyeballed this before and that has worked but I want a more deliberate way of doing it. Thanks.

[k4pka]

Where you want your wheel to be, put a box instead. Make sure the box is in the correct perspective to the picture (Search the forum if you cannot place a box in simple 2 point perspective)

Once you have the box, draw in the ellipses for the tyre walls, and join the tops for a 3 dimensional wheel in perspective. If you want high accuracy on the ellipses, you can disect the sides of the cube into diagonals to find the points through which the ellipse should pass.

If your still confused, ill knock up a sketch when i get home, unless someone beats me to it :)

[madpencil]

Cool, can't wait to see your sketch. Thanks