Just kidding. When it comes to me though, I draw inspiration from Rick Sternbach's and John Eave's starship artwork.

For the most part all starships are the same. My suggestion is to take those basic concepts and work around them. Rearrange parts or whatever to fit the idea in your head. Sounds a little like kitbashing come to think of it.

But if you're one of those people that can't draw a straight line then I don't know what to say.

To find inspiration you can try anything, I once saw a beautiful trashcan lid in the city, it looked like an Excelsior/Ambassador saucer hybrid. Toilet seats too, all those lovely items.

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"Babies haven't any hair;
old men's heads are just as bare;
between the cradle and the grave
lies a haircut and a shave."

To make a final drawing, I do a pencil sketch, scan it, then trace over it in Photoshop using alot of stroked curves and the pen tool.

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"The sons of the Prophet were valiant and bold,
And quite unacustomed to fear.
But, of all, the most reckless, or so I am told,
Was Abdulah Boul Boul Ameer."
Aban's Illustration www.alanfore.com

I've done lots of schematics - and I would have given up without the "undo" command.