A few people found my How to draw a KV-2 post quite neat, and a user requested I give a step-by-step drawing of the ELC AMX a shot, so here goes nothing.
The ELC AMX is actually not a very hard tank to draw- aside from the turret, it's quite featureless compared to other tanks. Perspective, scaling and aligning details will still be hard, because of the ELC being so lean and low.
I started off with the hull's basic shape, adding a few details to start off... because otherwise it'd be kinda hard to tell where you need to put everything... maybe even which way the thing's facing.
I drew up some of the road wheels, rear idler and the drive sprocket, just guides for them to be placed. I also drew lines where the other road wheels should go- just as markers, as I intend to draw one wheel and copy/paste it, like I did with the KV-2. Of course if you're drawing this out on paper, you'd have to do the hard work on every wheel (ouch.)
The wheels finished and some other hull details added. At this point I figured it'd be best to just finish the hull and get it out of the way, so that way you can use the features as a reference for the turret and the gun.
Tracks finished. Not much too it due to the perspective- just make them solid and add the track guides.
Now we're getting started on the turret. Erase and redraw as many times as you need to if you want to get it right- the angles and asymmetric nature of the ELC's turret can throw you off quite a bit. You also have to make sure it doesn't look too far forward or backward... just eye the hull again and again as you draw the turret. Put guide lines if you need to.
After getting started on the gun- I noticed that the gun is too long for the dimensions of the picture... the muzzle break would be cut off the left side. So from this point on, the tank will be budged to the right. You can also see I drew guide lines to indicate where to draw the different parts of the gun.
After finishing the gun, I also added a number of smaller details such as the lights on the front, the smoke grenade launchers and the bits of the roof I forgot about(the cupolas for the driver/gunner, and the raised bit of the roof in the center for the gun depression)
The finished drawing! I chose to shade the ELC a bit, add some funny text and some subtle ownership decals.
I hope anyone who was looking to try their hand in drawing the ELC found this guide a good bit of fun. As I said, I also did a similar step-by-step drawing guide for the KV-2, and if you have any requests, I'd welcome it... just warning you, I'm doing these guides in gaps between my work for finals. I'll do what I can, but don't expect anything.
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