
Here's an old inked and partially-colored drawing of a space craft I was designing for some comic which I can't recall. I never completed it because I wasn't happy with the textures I was getting from the colored pencils (I wasn't using Prismacolors yet and still hadn't nailed down the various techniques I would learn over the following years). As you might be able to tell from the scan, the black ink has faded and shifted to a more greyish-yellow tint.
I never used any sort of perspective guidelines or even rulers when I drew this picture. Heck, I think most of my earlier stuff was never concerned with those "guides". Granted, my hands are not as stable and smooth as they were back in high school, so rulers come in handy nowadays!
I have another recent rough sketch, based on this older design, for a ship I will be using in an upcoming Caterwaul story. See, it pays to hang on to some of those old drawings!
I never used any sort of perspective guidelines or even rulers when I drew this picture. Heck, I think most of my earlier stuff was never concerned with those "guides". Granted, my hands are not as stable and smooth as they were back in high school, so rulers come in handy nowadays!
I have another recent rough sketch, based on this older design, for a ship I will be using in an upcoming Caterwaul story. See, it pays to hang on to some of those old drawings!
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It still surprises me how you color small chunks to close to their final appearance as opposed to layering colors/etc. Not that I am able to draw/color from the start.. but if I used your method I know I would draw one section fine, then move on to other sections only to realize the shadows are incorrect for the picture's imaginary light source.
Yeah, I reckon it's a weird way to do it, but I can see the final image in my head, so once I start coloring, I just work from one point to another. I don't have to keep tweaking the artwork, because all I ever had to do, from the start, was to get it to look similar to what I could see in my head.
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