Let’s Learn To Draw Spaceships: Build Your Visual Library
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You cant draw what you don't know! Building visual library for drawing and designing spaceships requires and understanding of some basic Sci-Fi theories. Master these simple ideas to turn your spaceships into function designs wrapped in your chosen style.
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Every artist struggles with spaceship design because they focus on making them look cool instead of making them work.
This video reveals the four essential systems every spaceship needs:
Habitation where people go
Propulsion how it moves
Fuel energy storage
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Function the ships specific job.
You'll discover why NASA engineering principles make science fiction more convincing. How to use real spacecraft as visual library, and why the Millennium Falcon works despite being unrealistic.
When you apply this engineering first approach your spaceship designs stop looking like toys and start feeling like real vehicles with purpose and believability.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:46 Welcome
00:02:28 Why is Design So Important For Drawing Tech?
00:05:55 Great Space Ship Reference
00:07:20 A Space Ship Creation Formula
00:12:59 Examples of Ships I have Designed
00:29:09 Study NASA And Sci-Fi
00:36:28 Interstellar Travel Theories
00:43:43 Lets Sketch Around! (Luxury Transport)
00:51:08 Overlaying Visual Design Language
00:52:10 Basic Structural Sketching
00:59:06 Coming up With Different Ideas
01:02:28 Deep Space Cargo Freighter Ideas
01:09:55 Building Visual Library for Tech
01:12:25 Out
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Tim McBurnie
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