Ocean Liner profiles; 'Liner Designs & Illustration'

[Colosseum]

Very, very nice.

How did you get started doing this type of "anti-aliased" illustration (vs. the pixel art we do)? I've always wanted to branch out but didn't know where to start. I use Photoshop as well - any basic tips?

[alotef]

@Hood: Thanks so much!They take a little while. Titanic took about 5-6 weeks while other smaller liners are usually about 2-3 weeks each. Most of it is spent researching and photo-gathering though since blueprints can be quite hard to come by!

@BB1987 You are very kind

@emperor_andreas Thankyou mate and it is very nice to feel welcome!

@Colosseum I started off in MS Paint and slowly upgraded the 'tasks' I would complete. To give you an example, a 2012 profile of Titanic started as all-pixel:
https://i.imgur.com/U9ZkZ4C.png

Then I experimented with shading the drawing using photoshop:
https://i.imgur.com/oqsmYQx.png

Now I just do everything in photoshop! If I can make some suggestions, use a brush with 100% hardness and a pixel size of 1 or 2 for the edge outlines.

~Mike

[Tempest]

They look professionally drawn, and it would be fitting to see them in a reference book.

[alotef]

Thanks for the kind words Tempest
~Mike

[adenandy]

Lovely drawings Mike.

Makes one imagine catching a sneek peek through the drawing office window at White Stars offices in Belfast in February/March, 1910

And now I'd venture you're taking a foray into warship design

Will be interesting to see how you progress in your unique style and scale (which is VERY close to FD - perhaps with a small tweek you could match FD Scale, which would be extremely AMAZING!)

Anyway sir, good day to you and good luck!

With kind regards,

Andy

[alotef]

Lovely words adenandy, thankyou!
Warships are definitely to my interest - especially Bismarck and Hood!
A series of warships is definitely on the cards. If you don't mind my asking, at what scale is FD? My scale is 68 pixels to 1 meter.

Cheers!

~Mike

[Hood]

FD scale is 22.093 pixels to 1 metre.
So your scale is far larger than FD scale.

[alotef]

That's interesting Hood! All my drawings are at 300 DPi resolution.
When printed the scale translates to about 1/174.
~Mike

[JPDLD]

Nice thing, you're selling these ! I'll be definitely buying a few of these ships, you're making an outstanding, awesome, unique work

[alotef]

Cheers JPDLD!
I'm really glad you like them. Thanks for your kind words!!

~Mike