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I've been at this pretty much all day... Does drawing mechs take this long for everybody??????????

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[–] Zombiepirate 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love it! I've been curious about how people get the perspective right on this kind of thing, and this kinda makes me want to give it a shot myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah man! You should totally go for it!

You can see from my sketches that my perspective was pretty wonky, and I made several passes, tweaking details and perspective stuff with each pass. I’m finally done with the linework, and think I’ve drawn this mech about five or six times by now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very nice! Yeah technical drawings take ages :-D but it's worth it, all those little details adds so much to the final result.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can see why most entertainment design folks just go straight to painting, rather than doing line art and coloring after. Painting lets you knock out entire planes in just a couple strokes so it saves you so much time D:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

For this kind of stuff you can also toon-shade a 3D model, print it (for example) and use it as some sort of model, if speed is the issue!

Or maybe I misunderstood what you meant? I mean some paintings can surely be done more quickly but that's probably removing details (or the artist is very good :-).