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Here's my drawing of a primitive Bolo-esque tank that's bigger than a farmhouse and got weapon emplacements point everywhere:

Needs more legs

(like the design though, very retro).

Neat drawing, it appears to have arrow launching mounts? Rambo II class exploding tips I assume! The drivers hatch really makes me picture this thing as alive, with a head.

The turret top weapons in ball turrets are meant to be 20mm rapid fire AT/AA quad cannons.

Here's some more retro vehicles:

Not enough turrets

JointStrikeFighter wrote:Not enough turrets

YES!!! You're gonna need moar dakka to fight off swarms of those pesky biplanes

Study what tanks actually look like. Get reference photos. Then redraw and resubmit.

Will do; in fact when I went into Bristol I did quick sketches of a Challenger II tank that happened to be shown at Bristol when I went there the other week. I'll post them some time over the week (this week I've been laid low by a nasty virus).

Also I've been doing some Manga/anime drawings.

I think I have told you this before, but there is a book series called Dynamic Anatomy. Go check it out.

While you have shown progress, I don't think it is nearly enough for the amount of time it looks like you spend drawing.

I've done plenty of realistic anatomy drawings, copying from human anatomy books similar to the one you've mentioned, and here's drawings of realistic hands:





I've got a PDF of one of Andrew Loomis' tutorials saved on my data stick. And here's some of stuff I've copied from Loomis:

It seems to me that you're going for a more cartoony style than a super-detailed 'realistic' style. I would still follow Havok's advice, but just thinking about your tank images as kind of like 'cartoony' tanks rather than something out of a reference book makes me get it a lot more. The battleblimp in particular looks like concept art for a early saturday morning cartoon.

That flying battleship was inspired by Studio Ghibli films.

Big Orange wrote:That flying battleship was inspired by Studio Ghibli films.

That goes without saying, Miyazaki is a MASTER when it comes to fantasy flying airships

Some more tank related stuff:

Generally pretty solid tanks, the cartoony ones are cartoony and the realistic ones realistic. However, the A1E1 drawing is in need of some reworking, its nose is out of perspective. Angles in two dimensions utterly suck to draw in perspective, and I usually cheat on my angled views by projecting so as to make them easier. It's important to remember to think that stuff through extra hard. Guide lines are a real help here since the type of mistake you made where you project something wrong becomes really obvious due to the angle being off. If I'm feeling really anal, I'll draw the front bit, then draw a projection back and then expand that one to get the ends of the angled seams, because I generally find it very hard to keep track of the angle made by two separate movements along different axes.

One major suggestion: any and every time you draw a straight line of more than one inch, use a ruler. It's somewhat shocking how many professional artists haven't picked up on this easy trick, and end up with straight lines in finished, beautifully painted pieces that... aren't actually straight.

^I use rulers to help with perspective, but I'll get more in the habit of using them to draw buildings, vehicles, and other hardware.

xthetenth wrote:However, the A1E1 drawing is in need of some reworking, its nose is out of perspective.

Yeah, I notice that, thanks for pointing that out.

Havok wrote:I think I have told you this before, but there is a book series called Dynamic Anatomy. Go check it out.

While you have shown progress, I don't think it is nearly enough for the amount of time it looks like you spend drawing.

I second that one. Any of Burne Hogarth's books are good.

BO, those hands are pretty good (and correctly foreshortened, too!) LOVE the tank concepts, but I'll have to agree with Hav on this one. Some more study of the lines and planes of real tanks (I used to use some of the Jane's books, back when I had a passing obsession with tanks) will help, as well.

Here's some military gear:

nice sketches really love it, marvelous work need more improvement to clarity on it.

Stofsk wrote:It seems to me that you're going for a more cartoony style than a super-detailed 'realistic' style. I would still follow Havok's advice, but just thinking about your tank images as kind of like 'cartoony' tanks rather than something out of a reference book makes me get it a lot more. The battleblimp in particular looks like concept art for a early saturday morning cartoon.

This entire thread is worth it just because I saw the word "battleblimp".

Speaking of battleblimps:


I've posted this fantasy airship on ConceptArt.Org's Daily Sketch Group.

Two Metal Slug style drawings, a tank charge, and a Panzerkampfwagen V sketch:

My drawing of a Bolo: