Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-20-2011 01:49 PM
I really enjoyed this video by children's book illustrator Shoo Rayner, in part because I enjoyed watching him work, but mostly for the charming way in which he described the features of the space shuttle that he was drawing without knowing what they were.
He seems to have used photos of Columbia from the early days of the program as a guide...
How to draw the Space Shuttle
And if this video inspires you to draw a shuttle, please do share with the class!
jjknap Member
Posts: 273 From: Bourbonnais, IL USA Registered: Apr 2011
posted 12-20-2011 04:03 PM
Nice...I wish I could draw
Joel Katzowitz Member
Posts: 808 From: Marietta GA USA Registered: Dec 1999
posted 12-20-2011 08:06 PM
quote:Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: And if this video inspires you to draw a shuttle, please do share with the class!
Here's my drawing of Endeavour. I sketched it on my iPad with the Adobe Ideas app a while back. It's a loose interpretation for sure.
p51 Member
Posts: 1642 From: Olympia, WA Registered: Sep 2011
posted 12-20-2011 08:54 PM
Growing up, I always had better artistic skills than the other kids in school. These "how to draw" guides only show something from one angle so I always felt they were useless to me. With something like this, you can visualize it, or you can't. It's like flying, some people have a feel for it and others never will.
As for my own efforts, I've drawn a lot of aviation stuff over the years for people and companies and used to do so professionally back when I still thought you could make a honest living at it. Oddly, I've never seriously drawn anything NASA-related other than doodles in sketchbooks or such (I tried to contact NASA about getting into their art program but never got any responses). I probably should take on an orbiter just to see what justice I can do with it. If I do, I'll be sure to post it here. But to get an idea, here's what I did with a MIG-29 a few years ago:
MCroft04 Member
Posts: 1634 From: Smithfield, Me, USA Registered: Mar 2005
posted 12-20-2011 09:27 PM
You're right; either you have it or you don't. Very nice!
GoesTo11 Member
Posts: 1309 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 2004
posted 12-21-2011 11:03 PM
I've sketched countless Space Shuttles, fighter planes, starships, and astronauts... many of which, looking back, were actually pretty good.
Unfortunately they were mostly on the covers and in the margins of textbooks to which contents I should have better applied myself.
posted 12-20-2011 01:49 PM
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