Drawing Better Every Day: Guest Blogger (Jennifer): Tutorial Critique 5: Optimus Prime Line Art

Hello readers of Drawing Better Everyday, my name is Jennifer. And I'll be doing a guest blog for today. This tutorial will be over how to draw Optimus Prime from the new Transformers movies.

I found this tutorial while skimming around websites for anything that would catch my interest.

Pros

The tutorial is about Optimus Prime.
The tutorial ha images that go along with the steps.
The steps in this tutorial are pretty basic.
This could be used for any art medium, whether it be digital or traditional.
The final product has a really nice look to it.

Cons

The tutorial is almost too simple
It doesn't provide a level of skill an artist is required to do this.
The artist is very, very vague on the steps. One step was details, and then next step was just “more details”.
This doesn't explain much on how to draw a Transformer, for this tutorial could apply to anything, just change around the topic. So, it's not very unique.

For this tutorial, a more advanced level of skill is required. Transformers have a lot, I emphasize this, of detail. The artist doesn't really provide helpful tips on how to execute these details, so the artist taking after the tutorial has to just wing it with their imagination or use a reference. It would have been nice if the artist had provided more in depth steps that made the tutorial unique to Optimus Prime. For example, how to add in the exterior of the car to his body, or the inner wiring.

Here below is the process to get to the final product.