For fun 🙂 as always.

STW Art Club HQ

I’m going to do mine tomorrow 🙂

I’ve found my inspiration..

I just need to find a way to persuade yunki jr to stop hitting me with a gym ball and go to bed..

Inspired in part by shedbrewed’s chubby frunt thread earlier today.. I give you fatbike

Yunki I like it, I like the shading on the front wheel.

here’s a Skoda Roomster i’ve been working on for Dads dealership

Liking that a lot Yunki.

Pinches car is nice too, almost make s the real thing look nice. 😉

I’ll start on my car tomorrow, I’ve spent the last week drawing Angus Young from the cover of ‘Highway to Hell’ and while I’m reasonably happy with the drawing, I’m struggling to get it into a computer because of all the reflections off the dark sections (and there’s quite a few in that picture). I should really get a scanner.

Samurai is it graphite? Fixative kills some if the reflections.

bad drawing!

Nice work pinches, looks cool

Yeah, graphite. I could try some fixative.
Hang on, mobile phone picture on the way,….

The second one there is quite good because of all the ambient light around when I took it.

Nice! The proportions look good too. When drawing hair I lift the pencil off the page at the end of the strands. I will stick some pictures up tomorrow to show you what I mean

I’d appreciate that. Hair is where I really struggle.

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The hair here has been built up in stands. The method i use most is to lay down some tone to start with, blend it in using a stump then use the corner of a square rubber to make the strands.

The edges and flyaway strands are made using a mechanical pencil, starting with firmer pressure at the root and always following the direction of the hair.

Lovely hair!
Is that all pencil? Amazing number of differing tones in there.

(ps. you only need the codes once for each pic 😉 )

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Same technique here, the stands are then outlined using a mechanical pencil.

Please excuse photo quality, its all from iphone.

DezB – Member
Lovely hair!
Is that all pencil? Amazing number of differing tones in there.

(ps. you only need the codes once for each pic )

Thanks! Yes is all graphite.
I always get issues with IMG codes on this laptop and this forum. Works fine on other forums.

rigged rt model

rig in action

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Nice perspective GEDA

What did you use to animate your tank?

the animation was done in 3ds max, well it’s more simulation than animation. Theres 2 rigs A Reactor rig, basically an 10 wheeled car with the 8 road wheel sprung and a heavy chassis. You can “motorize” each wheel which will drive the tank forward over any terrain within reason. This reactor rig is used to drive an animation rig with gives the visuals and rotating tracks (which is just a scrolling texture). You can create “real” track system with Reactor but its a PITA to get right and control.

Impressive stuff, I could never get into 3D models, I tried but got frustrated with myself too often. That’s really cool cool work.

Such impressive stuff guys. Thanks for the tips catflees. Those really are jaw droppingly good.

GEDA’s is good too, I don’t recognise the original master though.

Is there any reason you use mechanical rather than normal wooden pencils, catflees?

Wooden are better for blocking in large areas to shade in. As used at an angle they cover a larger area.

Mechs will remain sharp, you can add more pressure or be more delicate. You can get very narrow leads for more detailed work.

Most artists I know use a mixture of both. It’s also worth mentioning what’s under the paper, mechs work best on glass drawing boards as they need the harder surface to make marks.

All IMHO of course.

No need to do it like an old master it is just good to copy off people better than yourself as you can always learn something. Like Catflees is giving advice above. I love mechanical pencils but then I like hatching and line more than tone.

cheers catflees, it’s the technical challenge that appeals to me most, hand animating complex systems is a slow laborious process (and requires a unique skill set), so anything that automates the process in real time is a real boon. The sim took about 30 seconds in Reactor to generate and is then played back in real time. The tiger animation I posted on a previous art thread took over 7 days to render. Love your drawing skills btw haven’t got the patience/technical ability for that kind of thing myself more of a doodler.

Stw challenge – transport by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr

STW Challenge – Transport by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr

Nice Samurai, direction of pencil lines on the body panels, and the different direction of the lines in the shadow gives a good counter change. Well observed.

Thanks. The lines on the bodywork were intentional.
The shadow was just an accident. 🙂

It works well. It looks scanned?
What paper is it on?

Just a normal drawing pad paper. I liberated a scanner from work, much better than taking pictures.

I’ve been practising drawing hair tonight, not going so well so far but I definately see what you mean about lifting off at the end of each strand.

Posted these before, but fit the thread theme. A bit battered and smudged being nearly 20yrs old and they didn’t photograph too well, but here you go…

And seeing as we seem to have diversified into portraits…

heres a few more of mine of recent (bit more conceptual mind)

and also not a sketch as such but heres the le-mans proposal i worked on a while ago

output is a quarter scale fibreglass model all built in house by me.

awesome!

I like the Axl Rose too.

The Axl Rose is really nice STR, i recognise the car (possibly incorrectly) as a Carerra GT, I didn’t realise they were as old as 20 years! Makes me feel old.

Pinches, that’s very cool. I love the area behind the drivers helmet. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

Re: Carrera GT – I’m struggling with the maths, as Wiki has it in production 2004-2006. I know I drew this pre-production and I’m pretty sure it was well before my daughter was born (2000), so a fair bit short of 20yrs actually – still struggling to work out when I did it though, as I haven’t drawn for well over a decade????