Hi evrybody,
And thanks again for the kind words!
Due to the many questions about how I draw, here comes:
I usually start just sketching very (VERY!) roughly on a piece of paper, just to keep the ideas around. Usually after taht I continue with a little more detailed sketches in Autodesk (former Alias) Sketchbook. When I have a clarity of the idea, then I move to Photoshop, or, if I'm the mood for pushing around some vertices, in a 3D soft -- I use them all practically, but usually my choice is 3ds Max.
In case I use Photoshop, the things are clear :) For an example, from the ships I've posted thus far here, the Wavecrest, the StealthX, the ETA-5 were done entirely in Photoshop. The others, I blocked out in 3D, after this rendered them, and continued working over them again in Photoshop.
I believe I can dig out an old tutorial I've done describing step-by-step what I do in Photoshop -- it is an entirely digital technique, but it is quite quick once you get the hang of it, if I focus only on this task, I can do one of the images above in about a working day (really depends on the complexity of the image).
So, if someone can tip me on a free hosting place with a very easy upload procedure, I'll post the tutorial there.
In the mean time, if you have any questions guys, please don't hesitate :)
All the best, and have a nice day!
Drone
Drone,
SWAG used to have a tutorial area, and I'm interested in getting that back up and running, why don't you PM me the requirements you'd like to have if you were putting up a tutorial and we'll see if we can come up with something useful.
Eclipse
Interesting, so there is some 3D work in some of them. I'd love to get an insight to your techniques, you could just upload the pics to your photobucket and link to them in a WIP thread used for tutorials.
Or you could head over to DeviantArt. Or make a huge "collage" image where you put your progress pics and write your tutorial into the image.
Whichever way, I'm sure something can be found. It's awesome to learn from great artists. :D