Fighter Drone

[Moccomouse]

http://img8.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Moccomouse/fighterdrone.jpg

mechanical pencil, 20 mins.

any thoughts?

[Marcatili]

Hey
I really like the design, particularly the smooth hull shapes.
Also, I admire you're ability to draw the mechanical bits that look like they're made up of individual parts...I couldn't do that without reference.

My only questions are, which end is the front and where does the driver/ pilot sit, if there is one, or is it piloted remotely?

[trelogy]

very nice piece, do you use mechanical pencil often? I sort of have this thing against it. I like the line weights achieved by a normal pencil.

[Moccomouse]

Actually, I use mechanical pencil almost exclusively. I think it's actually pretty easy to acheive a large variety of line weights, and most of what I do is very technical and mechanical, it's also good for detail.

Personally, I could never stand regular 2B pencils.

Oh, and the front would be the lefthand side, with all the weapons. It's a drone, so there's no pilot, it's essentially a weapons platform with an engine strapped to it.

[LittleEric]

i used to use mechanical pencils for a long time but got out of them for a couple reasons.

1 - line weight, regaurdless of what you do with em, you cant achieve the same level of line quality you can with regular pencils, the points are too thin and never change unlike regular pencils which you can slant, wear down, keep at a fine point, etc. when mechanical pencils wear down they always keep the same point, because it never changes.

2 - hardness - here's the big problem - all mechanical pencils are the same hardness - 2b, which makes them not the best suited things for drawing. when i work on a pencil drawing i have, at the least - a 2h for the first sketch, cause its light and easy to erase, an hb for the refinements of that sketch and for darkening desired lines, then a 2b, and a 4b for darker areas and for gradual shading, and finally an 8b for the pitch black dark areas.

you just cant do that when only using one lead, and while you can of course draw beautiful things with mechanical pencils, eventually they get pretty limiting. you can usually tell when you look at something if it was done with a mechanical pencil, or if it was done with only one lead hardness.