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MarikBentusi In reply to Letta-Kats [2019-05-19 15:47:26 +0000 UTC]

For the weapon itself I just looked at a bunch of references. Some from just typing "revolver" into google images, some from my own picture collection. The picture I came back to most frequently was probably this piece of Deus Ex: Human Revolution concept art.

The biggest hurdle is general art skill. If you know how to paint a metal pipe, it's pretty easy to apply that knowledge to a gun barrel for example. References can work as a bit of a crutch there, but if you know what you're doing, you're faster and less beholden to merely copying existing designs.
For this picture in particular I worked myself from right to left: First the profile shot because I figured that's where most of the interesting design aspects would be clearly visible. Then the front view to check for depth/thickness that the profile shot can't show. And lastly the 3/4 shot, which was pretty easy to proportion correctly because I could draw vertical guide lines from the previous two pictures.

Hope this helps a bit!

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Fluffywolf36 In reply to MarikBentusi [2019-05-26 04:20:15 +0000 UTC]

Somehow I knew you were referencing Deus Ex That's pretty much the same sort of thing I do, too - silhouette to get an idea of how it looks, then draw it from another perspective to show anything that might be missed.

That out of the way, this looks awesome!

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Letta-Kats In reply to MarikBentusi [2019-05-19 16:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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