Get some good reference like this: http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/p51.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/p51-2.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/p51ds.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/p51ml.html http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/p51wita.html All taken from the best Airplane reference EVAR, the downside? It's all in…
A photo has already processed the 3d to 2d which is what drawing generally is, it has already done the interesting part of the process. When you draw from a photo you are not exploring the shapes in the same way as drawing from life so the drawing is generally less dynamic. Some artists like Alex Ross use the frozen in…
Id say for about a good year or so, i almost excelled at drawing hands. I saw an illustration for a Poe piece and i really learned a lot as i tried to recreate it. One day i was in the process of drawing a hand for a character, got distracted and looked back at my paper. My mind was just blank, and since then i get like…
wow those figure drawings are ace! are you actually at a life drawing session when you do these or are they poses from a book or something? Ive never been to actual life drawing class :/
Get hold of the PDF for Loomis' How to Draw the Head and Hands. His head drawing technique is really good for understanding the basic forms of the head. Bridgman's construction drawings are very useful too.
Why don't you try draw your own ortho's using the concept as a strict guide. This way you will be forced to follow the proportions of the original drawing, provided you draw the orthos acurately.
sorry about not able to send you the locomotive drawings, I hadn't realized that the drawings were so poorly scanned, maybe next time I can get some better drawings.
Some more from me! I recently bought the book "642 Things To Draw", to get me drawing things I don't normally draw. I tried an environment with the "Japan" prompt!