General dedicated to posting and discussing art of either:1. Manmade objects, vehicles, tool, weapons etc. (of any kind and any historical era, as long as they fall in the ballpark of "technology") and fictional derivatives of such2. Objects,vehicles, creatures etc. that aesthetically fall into the visual space of mecha/robot/artificial/cybernetics etc. regardless of level of realism.Helpful to mention the level of realism, if any, you are taking into account in the art.Old general resoruces (hopefully these ones aren't empty):>Scott Robertson's How to Drawhttps://e-hentai.org/g/1588796/313b11d676/https://www.mediafire.com/file/a315b5xfrhmdhc2/Scott_Robertson_-_How_to_Draw.pdf/file>Scott Robertson's How to Render: the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivityhttps://e-hentai.org/g/1552736/5879054cf3/>Cache of /m/ artbooks (Patlabor, Gunbuster, Muv-Luv, etc.)https://mega.nz/folder/VBVDBICa#B9RTAhBwyo63KRJ_tTn9EAPrevious Thread: >>7114939
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Did the old thread die because of bump limit or retarded spam
>>7334732 neko arc in MBT Kuma (also known as leopard 2 revolution package)
>>7340796nah i just didn't have wifi for 2 days and couldn't bump.
>>7339192Is this your design? Pretty good. I like how alien and grotesque it looks.
>>7341958
any of you mecha heads at light box this year?
>>7339192Sick>>7343764I'm 99% confident it's from Gantz
>>7343764Yea from gantz, you nailed the description of it. Thank you!>>7346686Thanks! I'm glad it is recognizable
>>7345536neat colors, i like the brush for lineart. Enjoy lightbox man
>>7350303Dude you're awesome
>>7350377thanks anon
bump (pardon the crosspost)
>>7356188This is unbelievable. Best shit in this board.
bump>>7356206ty
>>7341019>>7354050>>7356188Nice! I like the cute and silly mech art
>>7370524If it wasn't for you this general would have died long ago, keep it up
>>7340755>>7337191ur so fucking good anon, blog?
>>7371010Doing my best to keep it alive. Neat art.>>7373591Ty anon, @mecha_archive on twt>>7373512kewl
I'll bite. How did you guys get so good at drawing detailed, man made mecha/vehicles like this? Was there a particular book or video course that greatly helped you, or was it just straight up practice and emulation?
>>7376845It's an obsession, they genuinely like these kind of stuff. It is in your head all the time. Outside you turn your head on some classic car, or bikes, you stop to check on power tools at the mall. Your head recognizes shapes and designs. You draw what you know.At some point you get used to draw some standard shapes that just works every time, and you stick to those basic shapes, you refine them, add details, and keep doing those same shapes all the time. Through repetition you manage to do more successful variations. To draw so many times the same thing you have to like that theme or thing.
>>7376853So it's just something I really need to shift my thoughts towards, do studies on (not do much the technique, more so the actual things and assembly of them, then practice, practice, practice. That about right?
>>7376859Yeah, but that's why I talked about "coming up with basic shapes that always works". Sometimes what you wish to be able to do, hits with the wall of reality of what you can actually do. Maybe I love the kawasaki ninja h2r, and I dream with that bike every night, and I know everything about it, but when I draw it, it doesn't look like it at all, "but", it looks good, different, but good. So I end up always drawing cool bikes with that shape that I personally find successful, and you settle with that. Find a nice shape that you naturally always do, and refine it. Know it, so you can make it, fast, and in any perspective. What I mean, is that you draw something to enjoy the drawing moment, not to torture yourself. Don't go crazy because the car or the bike doesn't look "exactly" like the reference. Just enjoy coming up with a good enough shape, and you will naturally develop a better and better shape language. Trough repetition of course.
>>7376929Wonderful advice. I'll take it happily and implement it into my studies today. I appreciate you taking the time to share that with me.
Thanks for giving the good advice anon.
>>7379203Mech chan mech chan go tell everybody in the rating thread they're ass
>>7379207Nah, no point in doing so. Don't think they'd care.
Concept I made for a Transformers OC, Flashfire.>>7334759>Gears.jpgGears as in the Autobot Transformer? I recognize that iconic headshape.
>>7386461Another Transformers OC, Goldbeater, and her partner, Foresight.
>>7388781nice work! I like the idea of her cape
