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.