Thread: Show us your drawings

Nice Leon, keep drawing and practising. My daughter is also very good at drawing. What helped her a lot was drawing from photos so that she could get the details in. Its a lot of fun tho

Hi Leon,

You're doing a great job with those drawings!

You've clearly got a good eye for detail, and you're doing well with proportions as well. You said that you're happy to accept constructive criticism - well, this is not really a criticism as such, but a suggestion that I have for you.

When I draw by hand I struggle with getting curves right - and I'm a draughtsman, so I draw for a living (albeit on a computer these days) - and my freehand circles are not as good as yours, so I found this helps:

Try to get hold of a drawing tool called a "French Curve". (Some of us will remember using one of these at school) It is a weird looking plastic template that has a heap of different curve shapes around the outside and the inside of it that you can trace around for things like wheel arches, corners of bullbars, etc. Anywhere a curve is needed, really. Once you get used to using it, I'm sure you could even use it to help you draw an octopus if you wanted to.

Anyway, I know it used to help me a bit when I did drawings by hand.

Thanks for sharing - keep it up!

Originally Posted by p38arover

How old are you, Leon?

old enough to want a landrover (12)

Originally Posted by MickS

I like the first one. You can see the springs, and is that a swag in the back?

Yeah its a swag and its the landrover i want

Originally Posted by Landy Leon

old enough to want a landrover (12)

Good stuff. I bought my first car when I was 12.

Originally Posted by Landy Leon

Yeah its a swag and its the landrover i want

nah mate go the 130 ute .......

more room for a few mates when heading up the bush

Oh dear.

Leon, you have a sickness.

I, too, started EXACTLY as you have. Drawing Landies, AND sharks, (which I was and still am nuts about), and look what it has led to, a life of landrover worship and obsession!!!!

I now eat, sleep, work and breathe the green oval. at age 42

Good stuff mate, I wish you a happy 'landy diseased' life too, much like mine was at your age, and still is now

(PS, there IS NO KNOWN CURE)

(And, what Jonno G said about the french curves is great, I used one all the time during tech drawing and graphic design school, very helpful tool)
JC

Great work Leon, no need for critisism, you draw because you enjoy it. Even if you were the only person to enjoy it is no reason to stop. I enjoyed to draw when I was young, (about 100 years ago now) my specialities were Series Land Rovers and EK Holdens. I'll see if I can still draw, then learn how to post it for you. Keep it up mate and show us more.

PS Do you really live at the airport? It must be hard to sleep there.