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Published: 2006-04-06 10:22:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 33727; Favourites: 727; Downloads: 273
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found inspirtation on here last night, looking at some dudes mecha sketches. Saw a couple of solutions to problems I tend to find when drawing them myself.Soooo, went home and spent a few hours sketching this guy out.
I'm fairly pleased with it, my best mech yet i rekon.
about 3hours work straight into photoshop. Kept the 1st sketches under the linework, I like to see the workings in my drawings sometimes, it adds something.
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im guessing landmate/ heavy gear in size, to pilot.
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I did not read all comments, as "sci-fi" mechs are, I try to look at them with a reality... thumbs up! fpr, form fallows function. Β Because I didn't read it all, how is this proportioned to Β "driver"? Β I.E. an appleseed Landmate , Β Heavy gear, or Gundam, in height?
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I wouldn't have drawn that under arm rifle any other way. Every part of this is awesome.
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kind of reminds me of the gardes from knights of Sidonia for some reason
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thanks.Β Predates them though
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Great dimensions. I like that you lift your line work, it gives it a sense of work history...
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Thank you.Β When I was at uni my illustration tutors lectured us that we had to have a signature style. Mine was heavy outlines, and I was resolutely told they were a bad idea and I should drop them. Big thanks to those tutors for trying to kill the only style I hadΒ -_-
I still use heavy keylines, I still love them
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Only if it's just for you. Thank you for asking though.
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Only if it's just for you. Thank you for asking though.
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Love it! In fact I like it so much I'm currently working on a video game that uses Mechas. If you are interested in this idea maybe you can contact me. My Email is Slayermaster93@hotmail.com I hope you will be curious in Game Artist Design. Who knows maybe with your work the game can gain profit and you can also.
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Perfect. If looking for critique, re do the shield. doesnt compliment well with the mech. Larger, indentation for gun placement, heck even throw in a view port for style #1 rule for mechs: form with function.
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this is so fking good!!!
It looks great but I would like to see one drawing that would give a realistic look at mech and what it could be done with todays technology...
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There's a certain life that you kind of lose without the base linework, I agree. This design is wonderfully slick, definitely needs to be in a comic or something.
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Their a particular place your mech skill comes from? I am trying to get into mechs, but I am missing something :/. My perspective skill is still kinda bad but i never have a picture for more than couple hours before I am like wow, this is bad.
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what steps do you do to make something like this? please message me back with details
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Okay, so I work directly into Photoshop using a Graphics tablet. I think at the time I drew this one I was still workign with photoshop 7, so the latest version is NOT a necessity.
I start with a really rough sketch to work out a figure's general position, pose, proportions etc. In photoshop I then add a new layer so I can sketch over the top of my original drawing. I make the first drawing much lighter and work over it, adding details and sharper lines.
Basically I repeat that process, with each layer becoming cleaner and more precise.
In this drawing I left an earlier sketch visible as grey lines beneath the final black outline.
Better example of this process can be found here:
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A much more recent piece, also including colour, but it shows the steps I take fairly clearly.
hope this helps.
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i like the overlapping sketch effect adds nice details
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Terrific work. I just want to point out that the gun looks "off" - like it's twisted or something.
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Heh, in 5 years no-one has pointed that out, but you're right. Looks like the perspective of the muzzle is off compared to where the barrel meets the main grip/workings of the gun.
Well spotted.
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Looks like the love child of a Leo and Virgo. I like it.
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did you get any ideas from the Tau? (warhammer 40k)
really nice!
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NOt really, no. I love the look of the Tau, but I pretty much grew out of Warhammer as they were introduced so never really gave them much attention.
Thanks for looking.
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ok then
np, loved the pic ^^
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Nice Job and im not the only one who thinks that the upper chest area reminds me of the ESWAT Landmate that they used in the last film.
but i ment to ask about the way of inking ( im just restarting with drawing) was it done with a mouse ar with a tablet thats a area i like to explore
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Tablet. Would strongly recommend using a tablet to anyone exploring digital work. Wacom are a very trustworthy brand and you can pick up some good things second hand on ebay. I have been workgin with an Wacom Intuos2 tablet for several years now. It's starting to look pretty tatty, but still allows me huge amounts of control.
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Cool mech, I like the shield and gun (though the gun DOES look like a vacuum...
Good job!
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Wow, impressive bot you got there! And what's even more impressive is that you got a buttload of comments on this baby, and you didn't even have to color it! How does one get that awesome??
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No clue.
This has been my most popular deviation from day one. I have no idea how it gets the amount of views it still does. Kinda blows me away that after over 4 years I still have people looking at this every day and faving it almost once a week.
how did you find it?
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Oh, I just punched "mech" into the searchbar and stuff. I found this puppy on like the first page!
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I didn't look through all the comments so if you already had this pointed out I look like a douche and I'm sorry. His gun looks like Gundam 01's from gundam wing, which by the by has 40 episodes. Sorry to be a snob. /shrug
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Yeah. I was properly hooked on G'Wing when i drew this years ago. Had the box set (49 episodes) as was churning my way through it.
Bonus = i was drawing way more mechas, Downside = a lot of them pulled heavily on gundam design as inspiration.
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Awesome work! this has to be one of the most badass mechs i've ever seen!
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