Sunday, March 9, 2014

Learn to Draw a Venator Class Star Destroyer

"Storm over Ryloth" by JMAS on Wookiepeda.

The Venator-class Star Destroyer was a class of capital ships used by the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire. They were designed for ship to ship combat, and carried a substantial number of shuttles and starfighters. Used extensively during the Clone Wars, they were phased out in the early years of the Empire in favor of the Imperator-class Star Destroyer.

Step 1: Draw a wedge.


Step 2: Draw another wedge beneath the first one.


Step 3: Draw lines down the center with horizontal lines crossing it.


Step 4: Draw the bridge.


Step 5: Draw the engines.


Step 7: Draw the turbolaser batteries.


Step 8: Draw the details.

 
Step 9: Draw over the pencil lines in pen.
 
 
Step 10: Color the Star Destroyer.
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

How to Draw a Lockheed Model 12 Electra

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"1936 Lockheed 12A" by FlugKerl2 on Wikimedia.


              The Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior is a twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s designed for use by small airlines, companies, and wealthy private individuals. It is a smaller version of the Model 10 Electra, the plane Amelia Earhart was lost flying. It was also the aircraft seen at the end of the movie "Casablanca." Only 130 were built in total because when World War II began Lockheed started producing warplanes like the Lockheed P-38 Lightening.



Step 1: Draw the fuselage of the plane. 





Step 2: Draw the wings.




Step 3: Draw a vertical stabilizer and the tailplane.






Step 4: Draw the engines.





Step 5: Draw the windows.





Step 6: Optional: I decided to draw landing gear so I could draw the plane on the ground instead of in the air.






Step 7: I went over it in pen, then drew a desert for the plane to be in. Finally I colored the drawing. I attempted to make the plane look abandoned and rusted.










Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Learn to Draw an Aircraft Carrier

"High-speed 'carrier turn" by Greg Bishop on Flickr.

                    Aircraft carriers are warships that aircraft can take off and land on. Not long after the first airplanes, people began flying them off of ships. While a lot of the early aircraft carriers were conversions from other ships, by the 1940s purpose built aircraft carriers with flat decks for planes to land on were common. Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as the most important ships in a fleet, as the ability to launch and recover aircraft increases the distance they can be from the fighting. They also allow aircraft to operate in areas far from any runways on the ground. Some modern carriers are absolutely massive ships, in fact, some even use nuclear reactors for power. The aircraft carrier drawn below is the USS Enterprise (CV-6), the most decorated ship of the second world war.
 



Step 1: Draw the hull of the ship.


Step 2: Draw some details like doors and windows on the hull, then draw the wake.


Step 3: Draw the flight deck.


Step 4: Draw the superstructure and some turrets.


Step 5: Draw in the ocean, the sky, and I decided to include a couple of planes on the deck as well as three SBD Dauntless scout/dive bombers patrolling the sky above the carrier. The USS Enterprise had several different paint schemes during it's existence, so there are other colors that could be used. You could also draw other ships patrolling the water around the carrier.