Thanks for the comment and kind words, Arif.

Interesting observation about the metal texture looking soft. I would guess it's because the lines are mostly hand drawn with a black col-erase pencil, and since some of those lines aren't super-sharp, kind of fuzzy, the whole thing doesn't look as crisp my line art on the harpy mech. No time to use that same technique here. In general, stroking lines digitally is a better way to go for mechanical illustration. Haven't quite mastered that pencil yet, but it is possible to achieve the similar crispness with it.

Will have to pull this together with color. That should help. I left the internal areas mostly blank with that in mind. When using pencil before digital color, you have a couple choices: 1) Use the pencil texture, smudges, scribbles, dirt, etc... to create mid tones that will be integrated w/ color later ala the glazing technique. 2) Or minimize all middle values and just use crisp line work to delineate shapes that will be rendered fully in the color stage, like the more classic manga and comic styles. Like so: [link] Hope that makes sense. Here I went for option2, but perhaps without maximum success.

I'm actually a designer by trade, but more of an illustrator at heart. I have my own studio and earn my bread doing mostly product design. But I obviously have other passions, which is why I'm here sharing this more fun sort of work with you lovely folks. Did that anwser your question?