So you've made it through eight posts on the masters of cutaways. If you're like me, you've been wondering, "How the hell do I draw my own cross-sections??" That's where Kevin Hulsey comes in. Hulsey is a cross-section illustrator-extraordinaire and he has a fantastic series of tutorials on his website.
Although Hulsey uses a lot of "ghosting" in his illustrations, where a bottom Photoshop layer of technical components is seen through a top layer of a car's exterior, the tutorial we're featuring is about the construction of line art for a cruise ship.
First, Hulsey creates a master perspective grid that shows the "maximum amount of important features on the ship." Next, he creates an grid of the deck elevations. Using the blueprints as a guide, Hulsey redraws the floorplans onto each appropriate elevation.
