Hello

[amo]

Hello,
Ive just found your site again (been lost since 2007) but thanks for all the Birthday wishes when they appeared in my email.
Have got back into profile drawing via motorsport :
Motorsport Profile Art

and have reworked some drawings I did years ago but they all all civil!! Is it ok to post them on here was thinking about drawing a BAe Hawk over holiday period.





Cheers
Allan

[inkworm]

Nice stuff, my uncle used to fly the 146s with AirUK, though that one looks like it needs a bit more work to it as the fuselage shading seems to be a bit out and is lost at the tail.

[GrubbyFingers]

Welcome, Amo. Civil rules, Dude!!

I like your work. Crisp and clean. What program are you using?

Grubby.

[amo]

Cheers Guys,
Inkworm - yes still trying to work out rear under tail area shading -having a look @ tutorials on here - your work is excellent.
Grubby - Im using CoreldrawX5 then bringing the layers into photoshop (I can't get used to ai) again excellent work from you both.
Allan

[inkworm]

Everyone has their own way of doing things, but as well as gradients just take the opacity of the brush down to about 1%, soften it as much as possible and take up the spacing up a little in photoshop and slowly work it up to get the soft build up.

[amo]

I have been working with various shading in photoshop - Staying with civil!!

[Supah]

Nice! One technique I would like to impart is this one;

I've put together something that I hope will help Milligraf. Basically it is a way to make the plane look more 3D. This is done in photoshop CS2 and using paths. I think it should work in other programs. First we make a path following the shape of the fuselage



We make a selection of the path, fill it with black, contract the selection by about 5 pixels, feather the new selection by about 4 pixels and press delete and we get this.



Then we mess with the opacity till we get something like this



Makes it look a lot more 3D with very little extra effort !

[santynus]

nice set of color profile amo

[amo]

Thank you very much for tour excellent tips.
Have Updated original jpeg above and will experiment with transparency as you suggested.
Many Thanks
Allan

[amo]

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