Let's See Your Hand-Drawn Profiles!

[AirlinerGuy]

I'm new around here, and if you saw my intro thread, you'll know that I haven't delved into the digital medium yet to create my profiles. I'm sure there are some on here who used to draw profiles by hand, or maybe still do. Otterkins2 posted some hand-done profiles in my other thread; cool stuff! Anyone else care to share some hand-drawns? I'd love to check 'em out!

[GrubbyFingers]

Yeah, right! If I could actually draw, I wouldn't need a computer!

All my stuff is digital, AG. I've tried many times in my life to build some drawing and sketching skills but somehow they have always eluded me. The only manual stuff I still have is tech drawings from High School and ID course.

Nice 737, by the way. It has some real character.

Grubby.

[AirlinerGuy]

Thanks for the compliment on my 737, GrubbyFingers. You ever done any airliner profiles?

[BLOWHARD]

I've got some I did in the 80s. I'll have to see if I can find them :P

[GrubbyFingers]

I've done a rudimentary DC-3. This will turn into a set of properly rendered Australian DC-3s and C-47s when time permits. I have had a few requests to do earlyish stuff: DC-8s, Catalinas, Dragon Rapides etc. I think it is an under-explored area with some fantastic colour schemes, so I will be doing more.

Grubby.

[BLOWHARD]

OK, as bad as these are, I'll post them. These were done in collage, 1987. I think I spent about 2 or 3 hours on each...AND IT SHOWS!
Dr. Martin's dyes and colored pencil on illustration board-



These are scans of 35mm slides, I haven't found the originals yet but I'm sure I've still got them stored somewhere.

[Jesters-Ink]

I can understand you being a lil bit upset about the WW2 stuff, they are a lil bit . . . .
Love the albatoss though, I'd have been well happy with that in 1987.

[Otterkins2]

Ah yes! Dr. Martin's inks.....how well I remember them....along with gouache and crappy acrylics and stuff so strange I've forgotten their names now. There's nothing like the smell of enamels airbrushed in the morning to give you that feeling of victory! But I digress. Don't bother scanning the originals BH...they turn out all wierd because scanners don't read the same things the human eyes do. It took a while for me to figure out that you were better off doing a transparency of the origional. I watched a lot of art get mangled by the printers as I stood by in tears. The customer may have been happy, but I sure wasn't. Here's an example of a scan from art. It looks nothing like the original.

[GiantFlyingRobots]

Gouache...Now, why did you have go and bring that up?

[gamary]

I love gouache. I use to draw real aviation paintings with gouache as a kid and teen.

Otters, don't worry: that is a superb drawing. Just what it represents I haven't quite figured yet but I love it nonetheless.