12/03/2025
Building Mechs From the Inside Out
Continuing my deep dive into the fundamentals of mech design — breaking everything down into boxes, cylinders, wedges, and simple volumes before committing to detail. These studies are part of the Proko course with Lenn, and it’s been eye-opening to see how believable machinery starts with nothing more than solid forms in perspective.
Instead of chasing complexity, I’m learning to engineer it. When the shapes work, the mech works — joints make sense, weight distributes properly, and the design feels like it could actually move, pivot, and fire.
It’s a grind, but every page like this sharpens the eye and hand. More shapes, more structure, more mechs on the way.
