/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

/MG/ 3.5 - "Hopefully I won't be a retard and forget to bump this time" Edition
Pardon the mistake.
>>6784713
I think drawing whatever you feel like allow you to focus the most is probably best, redrawing the same subject over a whole study session is only worth it if you either, wish to learn about it as a whole (like mixing learning about guns with art grind), or if you wanna stretch your visualisation, rotating an object in your mind and getting it accurately. I fail that part too oftentimes.
>>6785886
Pretty nice, did that particular mech model have a name?

>>6790085
If you were to handhold a beginner from Day 0 to achieving your level, what would you have them do? I want to be as good as you...

(I don't mind reading an essay, if you have that much to say)

>>6790179
Sure thing anon, I'll try to sum it up, but note I don't like blind-leanding-the-blind situations. I'm not a teacher nor anything better than a 1-year-in-beg.
The tldr is to, get yourself a prespective resource you trust, ideally multiple. Personally I used Scott, and also, in big part, deduced a lot of with Blender cubes & cameras, but I don't know if I'd recomand that. I do recomand using blender to ref tho. After you've brushed trough all the hard rules of persepctive, just start to apply. Apply to anything you ever liked. Furniture, buildings, objects, vehicles, weapons, mechs, etc. etc. Anything with solid shapes (as opposed to things such as cloth or soft materials, hair, etc.). Decide on an object, look at the refs, sketch them, do whatever you want, then try to draw the shape out of memory from any angle you want. Here you can use blender to pose a simple cuboid to get an ideea of the angle (or more if you need). There's no problem with doing more studies from ref or less, the point is to, get the shapes into your head, then from your head onto the paper. Exercise both, especially the latter. Frankly that's all i've been doing for the past, you can count about 150 illustrations of this, for about a year. Hope it helps.

>>6790456
Thank you, sensei. Screenshotted. I will study Scott Robertson like the Torah. Also, you are much better than a 1 year beg!

>>6790085
Do you sketch with a pencil before ink?
>nor anything better than a 1-year-in-big.
Haha, your art look very professional.

>>6790477
Thanks anon, and good luck with the studies. Feel free to post anything you make.
>>6790522
Nah, no sketching, defeats some of the purpose of the study. Not all but a part. Also thank you too anon.
>>6791755
Nice start on the studies. some look pretty nice like top right two and bottom left, but some like the middle one the lines start to break the perspective. Overall cool

>>6792492
thanks, sometimes I forget about perspective and copy without it

>>6793922
Yeah that can happen, especially if you forget to properly look at what lines you're putting on paper. Happens to me too, helps to look at the pic as whole and determine big shapes/lines. Good work as allways, some of these are getting there.

>>6794897
you make ordinary objects look cool as fuck

>>6796476
Thanks, and hey, that's a pretty good pic. I think alternating between long
er timeframe on 1-2 pics and big sheets of shorter studies is a great ideea.

>>6797795
Alright, I will try that next study

>>6799142
good boats, good perspective

>>6803177
>>6794897
This looks pretty consistent, all of it. Something that I find interesting is how all those smaller shapes don't distract of the main subject, do you have any tips in how to control all the clutter without making it hard for yourself not to destroy or lose the integrity of the parts that make the whole object? When I'm doing shape studies I tend to notice my eye gets lost on all the noise of the ref and I struggle to filter what should be omitted and when I try to recreate it I either get proportions off or something ends up not fitting in or the sum of parts just looks disjointed.

Assuming you're doing this trad, what kind of process do you have or what are you thinking/focusing while making your drawing? Do you think through the form visualizing some invisible perspective grid or are you more about sticking 100% to the exact angle of each and every line?

You don't need to answer all of this, but knowing a general mindset of how you come to approach these studies would be nice, thanks in advance.

>>6803203
>all those smaller shapes don't distract of the main subject, do you have any tips in how to control all the clutter without making it hard for yourself not to destroy or lose the integrity of the parts that make the whole object?
I think it's probably most important to find a way to process the geometry that you can do consistently. It depends on what feels natural to you, forcing anything else would probably be inneficient. I try to rememeber the a mix of the 3d topology of the important shapes, and a few big shapes as proportionate landmarks. (Like saying, for the camera, thinking of the size and proportions of cuboid the stand would fit in. Then, thinking of the same for the body of the camera, then the 2 film rolls, etc. and, besides that, trying to remember the 3d form of things such as the stand, etc. The 2nd part is easier personally, proportions in perspective are harder than 3d form to me.)
> When I'm doing shape studies I tend to notice my eye gets lost on all the noise of the ref
Happens to me too, a lot in general for most i assume. Just gotta take it slower and make your own landmarks/ shapes in your head to break it down into, and place the details inside, as opposed to putting each detail next to the other and hoping they line up/fit inside. Having problems with the whole thing being off as, bits not fitting/lining up I think is just milage, the hard surface equivalent of an uncanny looking face due to not getting the proportions right. I think just, more work and skill fixes that. I still have that problem, as well, working on it.
>Assuming you're doing this trad
yeah
>what kind of process do you have or what are you thinking/focusing while making your drawing?
I look at refs of what i wanna draw. I try to make a 3d mental image of it in my mind with good enough form and proportions. I try to draw that out of imagination from random angles. Then I recheck the refs and try to see what's wrong and try again.

>>6804796
Thanks for the advice, anon. You're the best. Especially that last line, where you just look at the ref, but you don't copy it, storing an image in your head. I need to try that.

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>>6790456
>>6804796
You're seriously the greatest master of Mecha in all of /ic/ history and I am going to spam this image in every thread where people ask how to draw mechanical objects forever and ever. This is tremendous advice, way better than Feng Zhu's videos on sketching and building a visual library

I remade it with hopefully better resolution

>>6805093
>>6805103
Fuck me, this is the final version

>>6805114
Well, I'm glad to hear you found the advice helpful, hope you'll have progress going forward. You're free to do whatever you wish with that pic/advice, tho don't take my word as gospel, draw and figure out for yourself the subtleties of it all.

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>>6804796
>I look at refs of what i wanna draw. I try to make a 3d mental image of it in my mind with good enough form and proportions. I try to draw that out of imagination from random angles. Then I recheck the refs and try to see what's wrong and try again.
wtf? I recently discovered this kind of observation, I called it the 'kim jung gi observation method' I recently tried it, and I had some success with it, but I think I need some time to determine if it really works, it works right? looking at the reference and observing intensely, then looking away, and forming a mental image of the forms, then drawing without looking, then looking to check.
I used to observe normally, looking at the reference and drawing at the same time.

>>6810495
>I called it the 'kim jung gi observation method'
yup afaik KJG said he did this exact thing
> but I think I need some time to determine if it really works
Yes I think it's most reasonable to give yourself a window of trying it out to learn to do it consistently and then see if you think you're learning something out of it.
(out of old art for bumps new ones coming next)

>>6812739
good stuff
>>6813956
Damn nice, love to see warfare in mountainous areas, great atmosphere. Any lore behind pic?

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>>6813956
Nice style, I like the cast shadow on the mech

some BT

Always love looking at these threads, OP.
You inspire me man.

>>6808133
sex

Hello. I'm trying to get better at studying perspective. Is it better to work slowly on a single study and try to get everything right or should I knock out a bunch of smaller, faster studies? I don't know how you guys do so many drawings when just one of those would take me upwards of an hour.

>>6824881
An hour is not a long time to spend on a single drawing...
How fast do you think drawing happens
It takes a while man

>>6822816
Thanks anon. That AC pic is awesome, post when finished.
>>6824382
also awesome
>>6824417
thank ((you))

>>6827976
Did you ever draw a mech dedicated to transport ? Four legged, sturdy, with storage attachments for example.

I like this guy, He is like a turtle peeking out of the shell

>>6828701
good ideea, will do
>>6830319
cool, what's bottom right car?

Does anybody here know of/have some good vehicle, robot, mechanical object or part etc. reference packs/websites/whatever? If I use Google or Pinterest I always get bogged down in browsing around and choosing what to draw, I'd really like some big pack of images I can download and be done with the choosing part, then just draw.

>>6832054
I don't know... but I set a time limit for choosing references

i started studying some demolition equipment for drawing big robot purposes and painting feels like cheating, so much easier and faster than drawing

is it considered cheating?

other painted mech i did yesterday (sorry for italian)

>>6831631
I couldn't find the car, but I think it was a sci-fi drawing
>>6834756
Nice detail, I like asymmetric junk robots

>>6836125
Ah, nvm then. Cool trains.
>>6834756
>>6834752
Nice work too, did hear from a few people painting can feel more natural for mechstuff. Neat italian mech

>>6839779
How long have you been drawing seriously for bro?

>>6840147
1.5 years

I've always tried reading the book during times when I've been super stressed out so I don't think I've given myself the best view of it, but it's HtD as intimidating as it seems? I always got to the part with the wack camera/projection plane and got scared off for fear of being to dumb to get it if I went on

>>6839779
>>6837624
masterful lineart

>>6843040
>HtD as intimidating as it seems?
No, it's really not. If the initial camera/perspective PoV section is confusing, just suplement with another book, it gets a lot easier and practical after that.

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>>6851251
Sweet mechs! are you writing a story?

>>6854356
Thanks, nice boats there as well. Yeah, I'm doing a personal project, gotta design quite a few mechs for it.

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>>6859454
Owe you one, thanks man

>>6790069
you're an inspiration to me man

>>6861960
If that's what makes you wanna draw and improve, I'm very happy to help.

not the usual but i'd rather bump with a dumb doodle than nothing

Nice stuff itt. I find it relaxing to sketch mecha silhouettes with blocky brush. Dunno if I will refine them

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>>6866037
Really nice, definitely a good point the sihlouettes are a great way to get a design down. think they could go pretty far if you tried to establish some clear planes from the shapes

>>6790085
>>6794897
Holy crap dude, I felt like the last time I been in this thread you got a shit ton better.
>>6791755
>>6796476
>>6812739
You simplify objects really good too! Really nice stuff.

>>6868251
thanks man

>>6870233
How do you learn to understand industrial stuff like tanks and guns? They have so many details, it feels hard to copy when using references.

>>6870354
If you mean, generally understand their inner construction and details, it's just patience and or passion. You either really like them for what they are, they functionality, strcuture, properties, history of development, etc. or if you just like how they look, just be patient and you'll naturally filter out the details that don't appeal to you. No need to be hyperrealistic if you don't enjoy it and aren't a fan of engineering/weapons stuff.

Reporting back to the most based general of /ic/. Im trying to paint again.

>>6872842
nice start on the pic, interesting technique

>>6790456
>a 1-year-in-beg
okay maybe talent is real

>>6874328
Its really fun, but I dont know if calling that a technique. Im basically following the same workflow as painting a portrait. I kind of prefer painting mechas over drawing them. I have an easier time blocking in vallues with a brush over sketching stuff, but again, all the stuff I painted so far is referenced, some day I will paint something from imagination and see if I still think the same.

btw I love how you put dinamic perspective in your drawings. I kneel.

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>>6874856
I see yeah. I was morso talking about how you're building up the shapes with short low opacity strokes rather than hard sihlouette blocks, it's unorthodox even among painting mechs. tho i couldn't say it isn't working, there's some nice light work and plane definition shaping up in the pic, do finish it, if you can, curious to see how far you'll take it. Best of luck. Also, thanks anon.

>>6834756
I ain't paying 3.90€ to go to Milan I haven't paid for a ticket and I NEVER WILL

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Almost there, a couple of more highlights. I know is not that detailed, but I want to draw a portrait of the head at the side on the background next, kinda like RG gunpla box art.

>>6880157
holy shit you're amazing

>>6880157
neato coming along nicely

Ok, I'm done.

>>6883077
pretty nice finish, like the close up head

>>6883077
Very good

>>6885542
>>6885760
ty.
Hope some anon find this timelapse useful.

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Gun

>>6851251
love the yella fella

slowly working through that dude

>>6890803
forgot image

>>6885788
How do you draw without line work first?

>>6890804
Cool mech, drew him as well, like the shapes

>>6893078
I used to do some basic sketching before painting, but realized it was kind of pointless. Notice how the first big brush strokes make up the general shape of the subject. When painting you literally think in shapes instead of lines, if that makes sense.

I wanna draw Mecha girls. Not so much girls with armor but actual fembots. Thinking Armored Core but with girls swapping body parts.

>>6894930
I like the ideea, I support fembots, do post

Any tip to improve?

>>6898663
maybe clear up the shapes a bit

>>6822816
If I may, I'd like to offer some critique... Perspective is really warped on this, can't make out the leg on the left, and the mech loses definition towards the head. The area with the arm and the gun is alright but overall the figure doesn't seem 'grounded'. Needs better lighting and a cast shadow on the on the ground to help with that.

>>6898663
Connect your lines and improve your shading.

lots of mistakes

>>6902006
Kinda, but it's good work and very good effort. Keep it up anon.

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>>6893348
This is sick, dude, thanks

Damn I need to visit this thread more. Anons can DRAW!

>>6914295
Glad you like it man. Real cool finish on the mech, like the asymetry on the back
>>6914298
Draw something with up anon. Or maybe drop a prompt.

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>>6925227
Is that Liki

>>6926872
Nah, tho i see the resemblance. It's just a mech i "rented" from an anon a while ago (rented meaning i liked the design and drew fanart of it, tho it's not really fanart cause i didn't stick with the original design 1to1)

>>6925227
These are really cool! I feel like the lineweight could be a little more hierarchical though. Sometimes the inner details seems to clash with the silhouettes making them harder to read.

>>6928191
Thanks anon, yeah you're entirely right, I def didn't use the ballpoint pen to its best given it can do much softer lines. Tried to save it with thickening the outlines but overall need better medium control and sketching habbits.

wip

This is one of the sickest threads. I've never had the willpower to grind through the amount of construction and perspective knowledge needed to draw these kinds of things and make them look tangible. Seriously impressive.

>>6932065
good gainax pose

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a zastava, for bump's sake

I'll stop lurking

Just finished these

>>6943202
>>6943856
Looks nice, appreciate the work. Keep it up with refining them, the rendered one looks great.

Final one of these

>>6946130
>>6945000
Thanks fren, also Cool work are this inspired by Gurren lagann? Cause the remind me of the eye catchers in the show.

>>6947320
Thanks man, neat studies there too, keep it up. You're putting a lot of work in and I think you should keep going, it going somewhere. Yeah the last four pics in color are exactly that, a big TTGL refference, specifically the eyecatchers. Tried to copy the style and compostion those had.

>>6950728
I am retarded, accidentally copy pasted the same pic instead of a 2 pic spread

>>6950728
>>6952001
Nice Rides

i'd choke out a child just to be able to draw straight lines like you guys.

>>6790069

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>>6953445
ey, your too man
>>6954587
Neat fists

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>>6960568
Ah unfortunate i was a bit late with finishing this. Thanks for the bump tho

This sketchbook's done, finished it off with a kinda capstone.

>>6962480
The foreground is amazing but the mechs in the corners are unfortunately very obviously squished down to fit the size of the page. It's a letdown because the car and front leg are so fucking strong. If you had more space or planned better this would've been 10/10.

>>6963154
Thanks for the heads up anon. Your crit is completely correct, cause that's exact what i did. I started with the girl and the car, then the right mech starting with the leg, but then i realised i don't have enough space on the page and had to ruin the rest of the pic. Ended up meh, but even then i'm ok with it given i'd rather move on and remake the pic another time. Think I'll make a reminder for 3rd of december 2024 to try again, same subject matter, see what i can do in 1 more year. Anyways, 1-day-finished-a-sketchbook break is over, be back tommorow with new art.

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>>6790069
Average Mech Enjoyer

I know proportions are not 1:1 but I did't wanted to trace. I tried my best to make it look good pose wise.

>>6970748
kek, good stuff
>>6970795
neat. Don't think it matters if proportions are a bit pushed as long as it looks cool and perspective is fine, it's not like mechs have specific anatomy. Big shoulders are cool, and pose is badass enough

>>6973097
Sick

>>6974669
Forgot to post image

>>6970795
Thanks , frend.Ím taking my time but Ím getting there.

robots

I haven't worked on this at all, its still a cool concept

cyborg stuff and some rough mechs (additional evil bald guy)

>>6974796
progress, nice linework
>>6974672
nice rides
>>6974966
cool to see your work here. Finish this one. The full painted one fucks

>>6874644
Meh, perspective is everything. I was three years in /beg/ simply because I started slowly and didn't know what I was doing. I learned how to learn art over those years, I didn't know any of all the resources

Anyways, here's a bump for the coolest general on ic, I don't even draw mech, I just like the art :DD

>>6977857
Glad to hear you like the art here, anon. Enjoy your stay.

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>>6980123

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also, forgot to comment, >>6981104 neat lighting, saw the finished thing. Like the hues on the bg

>>6985753
you saw it on twitter? oh, its just much better now.
Now I need to polish the BG more.

>>6985753
>>6986174
Btw I noticed you are more active compared to a year ago, keep it up man !

>>6977222
yeah dude, great to see your art here as well, stopped drawing and have just been looking at a bunch of art, might redraw the mech with the guy running in a different pose

>>6986174
oh yeh, i did, and i appreciate applying the hue variation of the bg to the mech, that's what was missing. Well done, and thanks man, keep it up as well.
>>6988228
Eh, looking at inspo is kool too, do redraw that one, maybe mess around with it, make the PoV next to the dude and put the mech in the distance.

I don't like it, but saving the thread

>>6991997
i like it a lot, some nutty shapes you got there

>>6991997
I like it, I just think that the body is too small relative to the clothing

>>6991997

trying something out

You guys have any particular artist you draw inspiration from? I absolutely love shion humine's work. Not everything they do is mecha, but quite a few of them are and I think they're great.

>>6995702
Humine is such a gigantic inspiration for me. they're the reason I like big toothy mouths so much, and it inspired me to do that on my own characters.

>>6995702
without a question THE greatest

keep coming back to this guy, lineart is finished, but i have no idea how to color this

Drew this for a friend, it's a cargirl. Any tips on the mechanical parts would be appreciated.

>>6994616
Done

>>6999400
reminds me of chainsaw man for some reason. Really cool shapes

>>6999410
thanks man
>>6997553
no particular tips, but very cute
>>6997544
Allways imagined he was red and black

>>7001931
Thank you mecha anon, your perspective fills me with D E P T H

I dont want this thread to die so I am posting this WIP. But I have a question, like I tried to attempt this by eyeballing it (my ref right next to my draw panel) but my angles were very very off so I ended up just blocking around the actual ref. But how do I get better at getting the right overall shape in the right angle?
What I am doing now (knowing that my overall shape was correct) was using that as a basis for all my other existing lines and where they should fall under. Though I checked now, its still off.

>>7003513
it's a good mindset, keep going. Just gotta do it more, hopefully focus more. In your drawing the care is showing too much of the hood and roof as if seen from a higher angle while the ref is dead on.

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>>6790456
>this guy is this good after only one year
Unironically makes me want to kill myself.

>>6790456
Wait whats blender ref? Huh? Its what I kinda been doing, though I had my ref side by side but I compare lines and distances from my existing structure, going back and forth on checking if my lines and angles are right or wrong when I compare to my ref.
>>7004981
I ended up doing that one until I started doing the background when I realized my perspective was pretty wrong, and started checking more against my ref more often and comparing distances between known points I can base it off of.
I might add a character sticking their head out the drivers window but I think I am gonna leave this one as it is. I would like to go back and add the stickers and color to it though.

Any crit is nice!!

>>7007634
Meant to say I went back and saw how off it was and pretty much started over.

>>7006558
Do you have any inspirations or artists you enjoy? Curious how you come up with these designs.

>>7006558
done
>>7007634
Blender ref as in, the 3d modeling program
>I ended up doing that one until I started doing the background when I realized my perspective was pretty wrong
yea i'm actually glad you noticed it yourself, well done anon, the 2nd pic is a big improvement, the angles and perspective is much closer to ref. It's nice. Cool to see you on drawpile, also, will try to join the next one too

>>7010643
Damn didnt know you were in drawpile. Can't wait to see you there!

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>>7016274
neat stuff
>>7014169
the small utility arms on the lower torso is allways a nice deisgn element, like the two heads to boot
>>7010636
nothing in particular, i like irl /k/ or mechanical things a lot. Guess I've allways liked Armored Core, and maybe a some wh40k mechshit

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mechfriends keep being based
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Due to circumstances, will be bumping with a mini comic thing for a while, studies will be back hopefully
>>7022831
u too man

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>>7024060

Hello /mg/ its me the Trainanon, havent posted in a long time, enjoy some of my drawings and Sketches, critique is welcome

Some Vehicles

last but not least some Mech design Sketches

>>7028793
hah, train anon. Great to see you're still at it. Cool stuff, I like where the perspective on bottom right trains is going, woulda loved to see it a bit more carefully done. Other stuff is great, planes are a nice addition. What's the plane in the most-left based on? I remember having a model of it as a kid. (or something similiar)

>>7031032
thank you, yes you are right, i have to put more effort in correcting the chicken scratch, sadly ive become really lazy when it comes to cleaning up my sketches since moving on from doing proper Artworks with fineliner (fucked up too many great sketches that way)... but i am happy that i recently cleaned up this Flak Tower (pic related) wich was harder to draw than expected, The plane you mentioned is an orignial design actually, very losely based on the BV 238 (only thing they have in common are the engine arrangement) also thats nicely detailed American Diesel youve drawn, Awesome!!

>>7032319
>bv238
Oh i see, yea that's the one.
And yeah, fun stuff this general could use more buildings, "Flakk Tower" sounds awesome

>>7034565
yeah "Flak" is the German shortening "Flugabwehrkanone" for (anti aircraft gun) it was Inspired by real defense Towers too, they are the closest thing to Modern Castles we got

>>7035598
And they work
The amount of explosion it takes to demolish one of these is absolutely incredible
Modern artillery and explosive technology really said "you can't have castles anymore, we render that obsolete" and German engineers sat up straight and said "bet"

guys I want to get into mechas and vehicles but it is not too documented in learning as figure drawing and characters, what should I do?

>>7035598
>>7035776
Huh, i see. Yeah i had assumed it had to do with the 8.8 cm Flugabwehrkanone, never had heard of germans building ww2 castles. Not surprising, but quite cool.

>>7038370
Sorry for not responding before, but i don't have much to say, no books or such. You seem to get the ideea. It's all just cubes/perspective, and copying mechshit you like. Fiction or real engineering.

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(pic mostly unrelated, mech in bg at least)

did my first mechie, how did i do folks?

>>7048114
pretty neat, missles are fun and I appreciate the knee joints, action-figure-ish

I want to design a futuristic tank drawing I'm working on. I know a lot about tanks, but jack shit about the artistic side of designing vehicles. Any tips? Right now what I have just looks like a Sherman.

How to make the robot sexy without it being way closer to the organic shapes like human? Any names or big names that does that?

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>>7052649
sry, no real ideea on either topic. Do post the tank if you ended up making it tho. Allways preffered scifi made from an engi angle over asthetic (not in the, takes-itself-too seriously "plausible, just in the sense of, what an engineer finds cool)

>>6826304
If you’re OP, how long do you usually spend on one of these?

are /beg/s welcome here ?

>>7051589
You could give it 4 tracks, similar to picrel

>>7057438
yes, of course

fuck it, did my first vehicle study

>>7056864
>If you’re OP
wasn't me, but he's right. Those messier lineart digital pics (>>7050462 >>7056838)
i do take about 20-45 mins, and all of the trad studies take at the very least 1 hour, moreso 2-3

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>>6790069
i just want to say how much i love op pic.
just perfect how close the man stands, it makes it even more goofy.

it reminds me of this pic here, where some guy drew this birds nest on a camera like an attack spaceship

Hello mechabros, another /beg/ here.
I started dipping my toes into H2D and I got to admit that I really like the perspective stuff, it's fun to practice, and pretty eye opening.
Will practicing and learning with H2D enable me to do these things freehand someday? Or is this complex construction dependendant on a ruler?
Regardless of using H2D or not, does the process of learning perspective drawing like that also improve your ability to draw tanks, mecha and machinery "intuitively" (obviously not as precise as if I use intricate construction lines)?

Love this thread, very inspiring!
Do you guys do all the perspective construction freehand or is it normal to use rulers?

>>7065130
glad you found it funny, gotta 1-up it for the next thread.
>>7066152
>I started dipping my toes into H2D
Keep it up, sounds good.
>Will practicing and learning with H2D enable me to do these things freehand someday
Depends on how much you practice and how high your standards are, i suppose. I do my stuff freehand, and there's plenty of mistakes. Find your own middle point between freehand and construction, but there's definitely potential to not use it.(applies to >>7067535's question too)
>Regardless of using H2D or not, does the process of learning perspective drawing like that also improve your ability to draw tanks, mecha and machinery "intuitively" (obviously not as precise as if I use intricate construction lines)
Probably. It helps to draw the actual things themselves, but being better at perspective makes drawing them easier, so you have more headspace to think about hte design/"anatomy" of the subject matter, and less about how to draw the boxes that make it up

Any recommendations for artbooks or artists to follow for fantasy tanks, mechas, trains, vehicles, or machines and stuff that are somewhat more cartoony but still detailed and leaning into realistic?
I'm not sure how to properly describe it, sorry.
Stuff like pic related, the Edelweiss from Valkyria Chronicles and such.

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>>7070116
Thanks for your insight, anon!

>>7075021
I like it. I just don't quite understand what is happening with the left arm

>>7070509
is this book already out yet?

>>7075330
No, it's set to release in July this year.

>>7075265
Arms were supposed to be symetrical, i just messed up a bit.
>>7072790
Gl anon

>>6974971
i like how you stylize your muscles, any inspo ?

>>6970748
This thread is peak chad energy

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>>7080416
Is that 5 point perspective? Cool

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>>7085407
ye, thanks

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>>6790085
Do you happen to have a MEGA.nz of your draws?

>>7092155
I'll look into setting one up, none for now, sorry

>>7095964
yo its been a while man, I deactivated my twitter just so I could change the @. Amazing stuff as always

this isn't my design, redraw of a secret santa I got

>>7096116
Wow, i love the way you draw Humans, Great stuff i could imagine this Being Animated

>>7096811
unrelated to mechs, heres some recent figures. Haven't been able to draw that much because my tablet broke.

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>>7097357
Great stuff, your Lines work relally well with Robots too though, in a way your Characters have something Mechanical to them as well, keep it up!

>>7097410
thanks dude, this is unironically the best thread on 4chan. Would love to see more of other peoples mech designs.

As much as I am infatuated with painting, I realised I was neglecting my drawing practice and since I love the old mechanical vehicles of the past I decided to focus on those.

It's still a little messy, no shading also makes it hard to read but I enjoyed it. I will do more and then see if I can create a painting from it that isn't just a copy from photo reference.

>>7097574
Ok so these took me about an hour each, but damn, I didn't realise how cumbersome cylinders in perspective are. I mean, I understand the theory, that's no issue but getting the curves just right is very tricky.

Oh well. We keep trying.

Bumping from page 10.
Did another one from the side which is infinitely easier than in perspective. I will use these sketches when working out a bigger painting.

In this thread, we draw mundane objects in order to become a technical illustrator (for manuals and such)
Good luck!

>>7100514
Is that kind of a job even a thing in today's world?
Personally I do this because I want to accurately portray mechanical things in realistic/romantic paintings.

>>7100537
I think that stuff is mostly relegated to 3d nowadays.

concept artists still do prop design for games and movies and stuff. Occassionally, if you're high up, you can do those romanticized paintings

>>7100546
>Occassionally, if you're high up, you can do those romanticized paintings
High up on what? What do you mean? I can just do those by myself. That's what I'm working on right now as I love painting in oils.

I'm not really striving for a job as an illustrator, I just want to paint beautiful mechanical creations.

>>7100546
First fucking job mentions drawing freehand and different styles. Go for it, boring anon.

>>7096116
Thanks man, glad to see you're still making good stuff as allways.
>>7096120 I like the colored one in particular, adds a lot of visual clarity.
>>7097574
Neat, and thanks for the bump. Keep it up

Posting a wip animation for my favorite general on /ic/

>>7101274
Lookin good, hope u finish it. The gun posing rules

i look at the anime mecha drawings and my mind is shot. I see an incomprehensible jumble of straight lines and angles, it takes seconds for me to understand what I am meant to be seeing. The poor imitation of God’s beautiful creation is offensive to the senses. I cannot stand by it. The Devil can only imitate and what is a robot but an imitation. It is simple to put into words what this is. Evil.

>>7103626
Got any examples?

>>7103846
All of it, everything in this thread.

>>7103917
Oh, I don't think it's so bad.
Maybe you are trying to see something that isn't there? A lot of people think these robots are cool, it's not for everyone.
Do you like drawing mechanical things yourself? Maybe not robots but other things?

>>7103626
I honestly can't tell if this is a rage bait or serious. Stop being schizo anon. Post robot art or leave

>>7101274
awesome work dude, keep going and get it finished so you have something to be proud of

>>7103606
classic perspective mechs, I forgot what your twitter was called, pls tell me so I can give a follow

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Still struggling a great deal with ellipses, they just never look quite right.
Would love to hear some tips or tricks on circles in perspective.

>>7104014
Thanks, @mecha_archive
>>7105292
Neat values, hope you post a painting of cars at some point. Also regarding elipses, you can use the trick Scott mentions (How to Draw book) of:
The line perpendicular to the cylinder in 3d space, like the line of symetry of the disc, is the small axis of symetry of the elipses on paper

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>>7109545
Utmost gratitude for the timely bump, anon

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