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I have a long ignored love of jets and mechs, both real and fake. It doesn't matter, In order to try to loosen up my style and improve.
Just a couple of brush on this one. I avoided one brush for some stupid reason or another. The Acrylic Canvas brush! It's sooooo much fun. Mixed with the water color brush it feels really smooth and manageable.
*rolls up sleeves and cracks knuckles* Now to practice lighting without using layer cheating.
Any commissioners in queue, if you wish, let me know if you want your picture to be done in this style. It's very early stages though, so I'm so totally noob, but just putting the option out there. ^_^
A re-upload. My apologies for any inconvenience. Just a quick heads up, don't care what this is technically called. And I understand passion for something but just like when I draw any picture of a gun, please keep the debates out of the comments, thanks.
Just a couple of brush on this one. I avoided one brush for some stupid reason or another. The Acrylic Canvas brush! It's sooooo much fun. Mixed with the water color brush it feels really smooth and manageable.
*rolls up sleeves and cracks knuckles* Now to practice lighting without using layer cheating.
Any commissioners in queue, if you wish, let me know if you want your picture to be done in this style. It's very early stages though, so I'm so totally noob, but just putting the option out there. ^_^
A re-upload. My apologies for any inconvenience. Just a quick heads up, don't care what this is technically called. And I understand passion for something but just like when I draw any picture of a gun, please keep the debates out of the comments, thanks.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Doodle
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 850 x 1100px
File Size 312.4 kB
Hah, great story about this jet: I've always been an aircraft junkie, since I was a little kid. Years and years ago, while the F-117 was still very-much top-secret, there was *tons* of speculation about it; based mostly on theoretical data, people had made guesses about what the "new stealth jet" looked like. Some even went so far as to make models of what they thought it might look like. At a model aircraft show, I happened upon a table with a gentleman selling pins, and one of the pins was a little (1/2") die-cast "stealth-fighter" pin. Of course it was cool as hell, so I bought it.
Fast-forward several months; young teen Wolf has gone to an airshow with his folks. One of the displays was a C5A Galaxy on the apron, with a well-guarded roped path to and then right down the middle of the cargo-bay allowing the air-show attendees to walk *through* the jet (the C5A has doors at both ends). Happy excited young Wolf lines up to takes his stroll through the aircraft. And then the worlds largest U.S.A.F M.P. (okay-okay, he just *looked* that big to the 15-year-old kid!), steps over the rope in front of me; "Where did you get that?" he's pointing at the cool-as-hell "stealth-fighter" pin pinned on the breast of my demin jacket. I explain that I bought it a few weeks ago at a model-aircraft show. The M.P "hmmmm's" ominously, and waves over another M.P. who also looks at the pin. At this point I'm starting to get more than a little concerned, the 15-year-old's imagination running rampant with being arrested and detained for 'knowing too much", but they both just smiled and stepped back over the rope with a cheerful "Thank you!" and waved me on. But I can tell you, my heart took a while to slow down!
In retrospect they were either mildly concerned by the fact that someone was selling a marginally accurate pin of what was at the time a very secret aircraft, or they were hoping it was for sale somewhere at the airshow so they could get some for themselves. (I actually still have the pin, BTW)
Fast-forward several months; young teen Wolf has gone to an airshow with his folks. One of the displays was a C5A Galaxy on the apron, with a well-guarded roped path to and then right down the middle of the cargo-bay allowing the air-show attendees to walk *through* the jet (the C5A has doors at both ends). Happy excited young Wolf lines up to takes his stroll through the aircraft. And then the worlds largest U.S.A.F M.P. (okay-okay, he just *looked* that big to the 15-year-old kid!), steps over the rope in front of me; "Where did you get that?" he's pointing at the cool-as-hell "stealth-fighter" pin pinned on the breast of my demin jacket. I explain that I bought it a few weeks ago at a model-aircraft show. The M.P "hmmmm's" ominously, and waves over another M.P. who also looks at the pin. At this point I'm starting to get more than a little concerned, the 15-year-old's imagination running rampant with being arrested and detained for 'knowing too much", but they both just smiled and stepped back over the rope with a cheerful "Thank you!" and waved me on. But I can tell you, my heart took a while to slow down!
In retrospect they were either mildly concerned by the fact that someone was selling a marginally accurate pin of what was at the time a very secret aircraft, or they were hoping it was for sale somewhere at the airshow so they could get some for themselves. (I actually still have the pin, BTW)
Having seen an F-117A at an airshow, I can believe that. The aircraft was on static display alongside several active-duty F-16s of the local National Guard unit (the Happy Hooligans) and several vintage jet fighters. Unlike those other aircraft, there was a squad of armed soldiers around the F-117 all day, and there were two ankle-high perimeter ropes with signs warning that passage through the second line warranted use of lethal force.
Your experience does demonstrate how close to the real thing people officially outside the loop can be, though, when they put their minds to it. Case in point, the film version of the Mig-31 "Firefox" demonstrated a number of visual aspects found in then-secret steal aircraft (black color scheme, angular body design, internal weapons) despite the fact the book version of the aircraft described the Firefox as looking very much like its immediate predecessor, the Mig-25; incidentally, the Firefox's depiction in the second book was altered to match that of the movie.
Your experience does demonstrate how close to the real thing people officially outside the loop can be, though, when they put their minds to it. Case in point, the film version of the Mig-31 "Firefox" demonstrated a number of visual aspects found in then-secret steal aircraft (black color scheme, angular body design, internal weapons) despite the fact the book version of the aircraft described the Firefox as looking very much like its immediate predecessor, the Mig-25; incidentally, the Firefox's depiction in the second book was altered to match that of the movie.
Always a pleasure to see some awesome aircraft art! I personally love art of military vehicles, mecha, spaceships and the like done as paintings or in a style that very closely mimics paintings (like this one!), so this is definitely something nice to see!
On that note, I have copies of all four Terran Trade Authority Handbooks by Stewart Crowley. The iconic book in the series, Spacecraft: 2000 to 2100 AD, is certainly what fueled my love of the painted style - since the Handbooks are essentially high-quality science fiction art books with compellingly written text accompaniment that mimics the Janes manuals - and I have two copies of the book. One is the old, original dog-eared one that once belonged to my dad (and suffered my youthful fascination), and the other is a copy in better condition I acquired some years ago. I also had a chance to look at the modern reprinting of the book, but the 3D modeling used for the graphics had none of the flair or punch of the old paintings.
On that note, I have copies of all four Terran Trade Authority Handbooks by Stewart Crowley. The iconic book in the series, Spacecraft: 2000 to 2100 AD, is certainly what fueled my love of the painted style - since the Handbooks are essentially high-quality science fiction art books with compellingly written text accompaniment that mimics the Janes manuals - and I have two copies of the book. One is the old, original dog-eared one that once belonged to my dad (and suffered my youthful fascination), and the other is a copy in better condition I acquired some years ago. I also had a chance to look at the modern reprinting of the book, but the 3D modeling used for the graphics had none of the flair or punch of the old paintings.
Had a question for yuh from the previous submission and that was about using this style but also making sure you got the details I sent to you via notes. Which I realize was probably a bad idea due to your notes being craycray. Also wanted to know if you wanted me to resend via email (I haven't done so because that makes me feel like spamming without first confirming with you).
oh goodnes no, I won't see it as spam. Just send anything to kuvrahk[at]altermeta.net and I'll get it, just be sure the title has your FA username for ease of tracking.
"Now to practice lighting without using layer cheating." - I'm not the only one who thinks of it as cheating? xD
It's daft really, inks have existed at least as long as paints have, and basically behave as a multiply layer, but, it still feels like cheating doesn't it? xD - Looks ossum anyway, hard, angular structures require totally different techniques to drawing soft squishy characters or backgrounds
It's daft really, inks have existed at least as long as paints have, and basically behave as a multiply layer, but, it still feels like cheating doesn't it? xD - Looks ossum anyway, hard, angular structures require totally different techniques to drawing soft squishy characters or backgrounds
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