Having looked at the superb line drawings on some of the threads, and thinking, what a waste when this beautiful thing is filled with colour and the lines disappear. I idly wondered what others thought about this aspect. I too start with a line drawing, correcting it as well as I can with what data is available to me. At that point I can either spend hour after hour drawing more lines, or I can go ahead and start the image. However, being a simple newbie with only a few so-called profiles completed, in my ignorance I simply proceed, with an end product firmly in mind, knowing that when I?ve done, it will be of no earthly use whatsoever. Like photography, it will be an ephemeral thing and probably end up in the skip. I don?t think my work will ever be good enough to sell as a wall mounted picture, but I cannot see that as an argument for not having a go. There must be lots of people who would like to make profiles, but for some reason, cannot quite get off the ground from a blank sheet (or screen in my case). Below is profile No.6. Good data was hard to obtain, so I had to make do with what I could find and hope that my redrawn first line layout was somewhere near correct. It may not be a ?proper? profile of the type dotted all over the net, but I stick to my view that whatever I make should at least look as though it could fly. Thus I come full circle ? have I made a picture or a profile? One thing?s for sure. At least I?ve made something!
My dear old Mum is a handcraft junky. Her house is full of painted doorstops, painted china, knitted stuff, paintings, decorations, boxes, prints, cards etc etc that she has made over the years. She was almost in tears talking to me one day about why she "wasted' so much time and money creating this stuff that no-one else wanted.
I asked her if she enjoyed creating these things, and said she absolutely loved the process of making them, she just didn't know what to do with them afterward. I suggested it was actually a relatively cheap creative outlet and not to worry about what to do with them after.
She now creates to her heart's content and gives most of it away to the local Op-Shop.
My point is, the joy is in the creating and the learning, not in the profitability.
I know I keep making this same comparison, but profiling is, for me, like plastic modelling. It's a good creative hobby and, like modelling, half the fun is watching your own skills grow.
My dear chap, if this is indeed only your sixth profile (or 'aspect artwork', or drawing, or whatever you wish to call it), then you have a proper artistic talent. Very nice, this... Wow.
Me and my big mouth. I have listened and learnt. Thankyou for straightening me out. I will continue to draw various lines as near aircraft shape as I can get them and put pretty colours on them......! Meanwhile I'l look for an Op Shop or whatever. (What's an Op Shop?)
Anytime I go to the UK, the charity shops are on my top "to do" list. We don't have them in France. I've found some good aviation books dirt cheap in them.
I agree with Grubby. I am a profiling junky because I like it and because it's more fun than smiling at my boss when he kicks my a**. Making a bit of money from it is icing on the cake.
As far as cost-effectiveness is concerned, forget about it. If you look at your expenses in money (software, computer, etc.) and time to create such profiles, you've mostly lost money even if you're selling your work. Of course, if somebody wants to buy a print from me for $ 15,000, it might be getting my money back.
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