Creating Spaceships Help

[3DVortex]

Hi Everybody!! This is my first post in the Concept Art forums well, I'm been working on some concept sketches of spaceships for a small videogame, the thing is that I have problems working on perspective drawing, beacause I don' t have like.. techniques to draw something, I also don't know how to use well the rulers :\ I would like to draw anything from any point of view . I want to ask your opinion, I really need help, guys, if you know some resource where I can find how to draw well in any perspective view, would be wonderful!! Thank you So mUCh! :rendered:

Here I'm posting some drawings with the 3d model... the order is the same as my drawing overall progress... help me please :wink:


http://img50.echo.cx/img50/553/forcecommand2x1ep.jpg
http://img299.echo.cx/img299/1648/forcecommand3x0ja.jpg
http://img299.echo.cx/img299/8413/forcecommand0xy.jpg
http://img299.echo.cx/img299/7835/repairingstationx3lu.jpg
Force Digger Progress 1
http://img52.echo.cx/img52/4696/forcedigger9ct.jpg
Force Digger Progress 2
http://img52.echo.cx/img52/1926/forcedigger22dj.jpg
Force Digger Progress 3
http://img52.echo.cx/img52/1139/forcedigerx32bc.jpg

This was my last sketch, this was the first one that I used rulers.. but I didn't how to use the rulers well...
http://img52.echo.cx/img52/3196/bigshipx4vq.jpg



3DVortex

[Dstudio]

Hay, like the concept art, you have got the right mindset to excel in this field.


As with perspective tutorials, do a search on google "perspective tutorials" you may find something.

Be good if you state how long you have been drawing for so we can judge how well you are improving and whether or nor you are on the right track.

Rob

[3DVortex]

Hi Rob!

Thanks for your comments well, I been drawing this sketches for... 2 months more or less, But I can say that this sketches have been done not too frequently... Like fifty days each one (again more or less) that depends on my freelance boss, I mean, when he hires me to create a new concept, I work as a freelance artist, and I also do multimedia, and web design, also learning 3d organic modeling... and talking back again about drawing, when I'm not drawing spaceship concepts I'm drawing characters, wich is what I want to do... Character Design from concept to 3D, (I think that I'm gonna post also my character sketches)

Well if you want to see some of my digital art, here's my profile..(well the info is in spanish because is for a contest that I got in to, but you can see anyway the images ;) http://www.laligadigital.com/foro/viewtopic.php?t=40

I'm looking for the perspective tutorials... but I can't find anything good... If you know something please tell me..


Thanks


3DVortex

Ps: I saw your website! and look in the freetrial section, and your concepts to create characters rocks!

[egerie]

By the way this isn't cgchat forum but conceptart forums ;) Just a reminder to tweak your posts when you cut/past them teeh-hehe ! *scuries off*

[3DVortex]

ouch!!! I'm so!! sorry, I didn't copy paste this thread, the thing was that I'm also a member of cgchat forums and wrote the wrong name.. sorry!, by the way... something to comment about what I was asking before? :bashful:


Thanks!!


3DVortex

[3DVortex]

HI! well, I just wanted to share this new sketch that I made today is a passengerline spaceship C&C are totally received :wink:

http://img284.echo.cx/img284/6116/coloniyus037ui.jpg
Thanks!!



3DVortex

[talmir]

Good ideas but not soo good execution. Your main problem at this point is perspective. The spaceships seem to get smaller the closer to you they come in your drawings while in reality it should be the other way around. Do some excercises with perspectives (boxes, cones and such, maybe a small house) and then try again. I promise you they'll be at least ten times better.

[Panday]

yeah theyre right...you could search on google for tutorials that could make you crafts really great!

[StaticTitan]

hey,
Your lines are really dark, try investing 3-4$ into getting a few 4-5h pencils, you'll get softer lines, and as long as you press lightly, you can sketch around and get a nice clean drawing that you can darken later. (thats just my initial observation lol)
Otherwise, having only been drawing for a couple of months, these aren't bad. Like the others said, go and look up a perspective tutorial on google. Here are some of the sites I pulled up-
http://lucidcomics.com/creatingcomics_perspective.htm
http://www.animatedbuzz.com/tutorials/perspective01.html

Hope this helps!
Andrew

[3DVortex]

Hey! thank you guys for your comments about my spaceships, also for the advises, im taking it those in count to practice!, well, I'll try to keep posting my progress of my designs, I been looking in google, for tutorials, I've found some good, Im gonna put the links if somebody is looking for the same


http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/K9-14/introduction.htm

http://www.eclipseunleashed.com/tut/POV/3ptp.htm

http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/

Hope this get helpul to somebody


and again... well this tutorials from above are from basic perspective drawing, if somebody finds something about creating a spaceship or something like that, please post it


Danke!


3DVortex

[talmir]

There is no solid mold for doing spaceships..

Heres a quick tutorial for a spaceship:

Draw a couple of shapes(boxes, cones, bubbles, etc) at random places, but close together. Then connect them with some more shapes. until you get something that looks cool. Throw on some thrusters (or maybe not if it works on some otherworldly technology) and send it into orbit. Voila, a potential spaceship.

Thats the beuty of space. Things dont have to be streamlined. :) Just go where your imagination leads you.

[3DVortex]

Well that's a cool advice Talmir, Thanks!, I'll try to do an spaceship with your technique


"Just go where your imagination leads you" This is the Best Advice man!

Thanks again!


3DVortex