How to Draw Sci-Fi Fantasy Mecha: Spaceships, Airplanes, Cars, Submarines and More! (Over 450 Illustrations)...

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Kenichi Somemori Shin Yoshimura

How to Draw Sci-Fi Fantasy Mecha

Spaceships, Airplanes, Cars, Submarines and More! (Over 450 Illustrations)

Kenichi Somemori, Shin Yoshimura

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TUTTLE PUBLISHING
01 August 2025

Drawing & drawings; Graphic novel & Manga artwork; Painting & art manuals; Other Film, TV & Media

A detailed guide to creating new retro-futuristic fantasy vehicles for sci-fi illustrators!

This all-in-one guide takes you inside the artist's studio to learn first-hand how to conceptualise and draw new fantasy sci-fi vehicles. This book gives fantasy illustrators detailed information on the following topics:

Designing three-dimensional vehicles using a perspective grid, schematics, blueprints and linear and axial measurements Using real-world inspirations

from modes of transport to animals and organic forms

as the basis for more fantastical forms and creations Illustration techniques that allow you to create realistic three-dimensional vehicles: line, depth, shadow, colouration and rendering the surfaces of various materials Step-by-step tutorials, six in all, allow you to create sci-fi mash-ups of cars, copters, jet fighters and battleships or use these designs as the inspiration for your own creations

Illustrated with over 450 drawings and examples, this book is the perfect springboard to creating your own mind-blowing mecha vehicles. Your imagination will soar as these fantastic machines come to life!

By: Kenichi Somemori, Shin Yoshimura
Imprint: TUTTLE PUBLISHING
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9784805319468
ISBN 10: 4805319461
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kenichi Somemori studied painting and fine arts before working as a landscape architect and civil consulting manager. His previous publications include Perspective Techniques, Perspective Expression, 3D Sketch Practice Notebook, and Tracing Is Easy!Sketch Practice Notebook for Plants and Animals. Shin Yoshimura graduated from the University of Tokyo with a major in green space studies and worked in urban planning and landscape architecture planning and design at EPI Corporation. After that, he established MEGADRAWING, an art studio which creates illustrations and perspective drawings. As an architect, he received the Jury's Award for the 30th anniversary of the JARA Grand Prize in 2010.