Practicing to get better at drawing hard surface stuff

I've been at this pretty much all day... Does drawing mechs take this long for everybody??????????

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I love it! I've been curious about how people get the perspective right on this kind of thing, and this kinda makes me want to give it a shot myself.
- Yeah man! You should totally go for it!
  
  You can see from my sketches that my perspective was pretty wonky, and I made several passes, tweaking details and perspective stuff with each pass. I’m finally done with the linework, and think I’ve drawn this mech about five or six times by now.
Very nice! Yeah technical drawings take ages :-D but it's worth it, all those little details adds so much to the final result.
- I can see why most entertainment design folks just go straight to painting, rather than doing line art and coloring after. Painting lets you knock out entire planes in just a couple strokes so it saves you so much time D:
  
  For this kind of stuff you can also toon-shade a 3D model, print it (for example) and use it as some sort of model, if speed is the issue!
  
  Or maybe I misunderstood what you meant? I mean some paintings can surely be done more quickly but that's probably removing details (or the artist is very good :-).