First drawings: How Shipbucket artists started out

On the shipbucket discord and forum, questions arise every now and then about how we all are so good in drawing ships and know so much. Some people are disheartened from trying to draw stuff themselves in the shipbucket format because they are put off by the required quality. Because of that, this page exists. On this page first drawings will be shown from long term shipbucket artists, showing each of them had a humble beginning and got better by working together with the shipbucket community.

acelanceloet / J.Scholtens

Created in 2011, this drawing was supposed to contain everything I found cool back then. Tomcats, Goalkeepers, Azipods, hatch protected bow thrusters, a ski jump, Dutch radars and gas turbines. It does however lack some important stuff, like enough freeboard, enough internal space and enough common sense.

Charguizard

I was fully aware I should've drawn a real ship as my first, but I was designing and drawing ships for my Crimson Skies fan AU at the time and wanted to try to do them in SB. Before feedback the 9.2" gunhouses suffered from severe macrocephaly. Desk is still waiting for me to reboot this ship according to his SS report.

Gollevainen

This was my first attempt on SB drawing which eventually got Mconrads paying attention to me and took me as sort of apprentice, we communicated via emails and he kept telling me to improve it here or there...before he would accept it to be uploaded into the original shipbucket, a photobucket site managed by Mconrads.

Kiwi Imperialist

I am not really a "long term Shipbucket artist", but here is a drawing of mine from 2012. It's not my first, but it captures the quality.

Rodondo

My first drawing, after some feedback, May 2011, shading was all janky as was stray pixels

Shigure / T.Alting

My first drawing, with some edits based on feedback. I uploaded this in 2016. The original drawing had five turrets, with the forward battery having two superfiring turrets over each other, as well as a torpedo cutout in the middle of the ship. It was really terrible.

General_Dave_1

Created as a Kitbash back in 2016 or 2017, it was the first SB drawing I had made. It is a minesweeper made for an AU nation I still work on here and there.

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  Acelanceloets first drawing- UAC Camelot.png

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  Arcadia Bay Shigures first.png

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  Cerberus First Crack May 2011.png

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  Gollevainens first sb drawing.png

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  CA Chickamauga 1934.png

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  BBN-97 Mississippi 1997 Measure 33 (commissioning colors).png

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  Deadnought.png

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  Temptress Class Minesweeper.png