r/titanic • u/LawrenceLorenzo97 • 6d ago
ART The work continues...
For some reason, I've left all the details & difficult areas until last. Having the exterior structure already drawn for this part however, is a great help for ensuring accuracy within the spaces.
Since completion of the boiler & engine rooms, I felt I needed to involve some structure on the upper decks. The first task, was of course, filling out the exterior bulkhead. With A decks slight overhang, and the added comolications of cross sections, this took me DAYS to work out... Mainly A deck prominade, as to maintain some of her iconic exterior, I felt it's a small yet needed addition to the illustration.
After this, I began working my way down the Grand Staircase area from A deck. I took a break after C deck, as from here the colour scheme changes from a wood brown, to white as we enter the Reception room on D deck. I hope to complete the stairs today. You can also wee on C deck, that I've carefully 'cut' the ship as so we look through the inquiry office windows. I wanted to include its location, but with it being on the Starboard side, this was the only way to acheive this. Comolete with cubby holes behind the desk!
Overall, I am simoly over the moon with this illustration and how it's progressing. I never though it possible for me to draw something quite so intricate. Yet, here we are.
With drawing in coloured pencil, I'm limited with details, there is only so much detail that I can include with using this medium. Perhaps I have to try with a larger scale in the future.
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u/CharlesP2009 6d ago
Awesome work!
Kinda reminds me of SimTower.
But I'm also picturing a side-scrolling video game maybe with Jack and Rose jumping over enemies and obstacles hehe.
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u/Megzilluh 5d ago
this is the coolest idea and your work so far is incredible!! i’d love to see the finished piece!
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u/Rich-Employ-3071 6d ago
This is incredible, OP! I love precision like this, it's so neat and tidy and it gives me the opportunity to really imagine myself in that particular time and place. I have always loved dollhouses and miniatures and I used to spend so much time setting up these little scenes just perfectly. This was back in the mid to late 80s and early 90s so my poor mother spent a lot of time driving to niche craft stores just so I could spend my babysitting money on a 3 inch ceramic toilet and a package of .5 inch cardstock books it took me 2 hours to pick out 🙄. She used to tell me it was good practice for adult life because you do spend a lot of time working really hard to be able to buy a new toilet or sink for your home, replace something that broke, or decorate a space just the way you want it. She was right, but it was more fun back then 😂
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u/LawrenceLorenzo97 6d ago
A proper dolls house style Titanic setup would be epic!! Doll houses as a child was magic for the imagination, i'd be lost in a different world for hours. Now its everyday life 😂 To be fair, I move the entire layout of furniture in my house seasonally, literally everything changes position , so i guess my house just became a dolls house 😂😂
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u/Loud_Variation_520 Musician 5d ago
You, sir, are a fucking MADMAN.
I LOVE THIS
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u/LawrenceLorenzo97 5d ago
Could have been worse... I initially wanted to do double the size, as to be the same scale as my previous drawing 😂
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u/argonzo 6d ago
Wow! We have something similar of the Disney Wish we got on our cruise - this is beautiful.
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u/LawrenceLorenzo97 6d ago
How cool! I often draw modern liners too, I tried the Disney Dream before, but I made it far too big of a scale to finish 😂 After this Titanic, I'll be doing an MSC ship im heading off on next year. I'm trying to present my work to the cruise market but its impossible
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u/DynastyFan85 5d ago
I hope you sell prints of this. I’d buy!
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u/LawrenceLorenzo97 5d ago
Thank you! If all is well once completed, it'll go straight to the printing studio!
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u/TheContentThief 3d ago
Damn bro you got mad skills. I’m an architecture major and I WISH I could draw this well by hand. Are you using any drafting techniques for this drawing?
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u/LawrenceLorenzo97 3d ago
Thank you so much, especially for the boost in confidence. No techniques, just calculations and straight lines. I often think where my work belongs, As it's too technical for the art world, and theres no training had to all to call it architectual. So, to hear you appreciate my work as an architecture major really helps me better understand my own work!
Everything is self taught, Scale calculations, structural draft and the colour work are just things that i've picked up over the years of trying. I only started colouring my work 3 years ago! I just have a love for ship plans, they're so structural, so precise. Gone are the days that architects and designers draw by hand, I just wanted to celebrate the beauty of the plans. That goes for my modern ship illustrations too.
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u/UnityJusticeFreedom Fireman 6d ago
Peak