Planning Builds

[Mega-Bear]

Do you plan a build before you actually make it, or do you just let your creative juices flow?

Usually I'll plan a build in Minecraft on grid paper, but in Blockland there are too many brick sizes to actually draw something out well. I'm currently beginning a project and am trying to use grid paper, though.

How about you?

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[MyNameIsYou]

let your creative juices flow

[The Corporation]

I'll do both sometimes.
But it's usually letting my juices flow...oh, turns out something else is flowing too....mmmmm

[Nom|Aplem|Nom]

When I was in 11th and 12th grade I would take graph paper and make layouts of houses. I do not anymore.

[Mega-Bear]

I'll do both sometimes.
But it's usually letting my juices flow...oh, turns out something else is flowing too....mmmmm

Love it when that happens.

[The Corporation]

Love it when that happens.

I know.
I know all about you

[kompressor]

Bricks are a minimum of one stud in size. So if you make one grid == one stud you can draw it out on grid paper. A normal height brick is 3 studs high.

[The Corporation]

Bricks are a minimum of one stud in size. So if you make one grid == one stud you can draw it out on grid paper. A normal height brick is 3 studs high.

Holy stuff.

[Mega-Bear]

Bricks are a minimum of one stud in size. So if you make one grid == one stud you can draw it out on grid paper. A normal height brick is 3 studs high.

Gee who woulda thunk it.

[Fireboy]

I usually just build random stuff until an idea pops up

Gee who woulda thunk it.

i did it once when bored in school

[Frostbyte]

I did once, but It was a mix of both.

[Tornjinx]

I'm a robot.

[GenaralSkar]

I always do little plans in my head, especially with events and redstone in Minecraft.

[Treynolds416]

I always start with a picture

I use the lego planning paper when I can't get on and I want to work on my build

[King Leo]

I let my juices flow... God that sounded nasty..
It's kinda hard to imagine how everything looks in 3D before you build it, so scetching doesn't work for me. Also, I don't even know what I want to build before I start.

If I build something real, like this, I usually base my work on LOTS of reference pictures.