Jaguar Ground Attack Aircraft CG Painting

Thanks Bert, Lamps. I used a photo as a model in this one. It was the first vector illustration software I had used. One can only use lines and shapes so it gives a different look than a “paint” program. If you put the photo I used and the graphic side by side it looks like I just cropped the image. Doesn’t always produce positive comments. Its like having an outline of the Mona Lisa and then having to fill in the rest yourself. I still do a little hand sketching but mostly work from photos of models or actual aircraft now. Thanks again for your comments.

wow that is incredible, it looks so realistic!You’ve done an absolute brilliant job there, must of taken a fair while.

Unbelievable Gray,
I was always able to tell the difference between a GC and a real shot within a second. This is the first time not..
This is a beautiful piece of work

Thanks Shadow, Deano, AJ, XN, SystemM. Sorry I’ve been absent of late. Xn, sorry I’ve just sent you a message.

Hi System M, surprising where we do roam at times.

I’d like to say that all the projects turn out well, but sometimes the only spot for them is the trash can.

Thanks all for the comments.

Hehe hey gray I didnt know you roamed these forums aswell.

Hey Gray, do you take commissions?

Will personal message you…

Stunning work there, looks real

Gray, that looks phenomenal and then some!

Thats really incredible work. Thanks for showing the layers as that proves you have total control of shading yourself and are not copying a photo. If you are not professional, you sure of potential to be. You should show your work at cg forums like www.cgtalk.com if you want to pursue this professionally.

Mixtec, the program I used was XaraX1. It’s a 2D program. This was the first aircraft I’ve done with a vector drawing program. Usually I use a bitmap paint program. I used a photo model to get the general outline of this aircraft, as I was interested in spending the time learning the program. Just like brush and canvas artists aviation model outlines are often used for accuracy and time saving. Once you’ve sketched the shape all the colours, shading, markings and rounding out are done by hand just like with a paint brush. It takes me about 35 hours to create one aircraft on a simple background. Here’s the nose of the aircraft with a few layers pulled apart for a better look. Thanks for your comments.
Gray.

When you say drawn with vector graphics do you mean like with Adobe Illustrator? Because that really looks like its a 3D model, and you can use vector curves to make 3D meshes like for NURBs or spline patches. If you did draw that with a 2D vector drawing program you are very good, but Im sure you must have copied it from a photo. But the texture on the plane is top notch no matter if its 2D or 3D, I really want to learn to texture like that.

This one did come out looking a bit photo like. I won’t tell you how many layers it took to produce this aircraft, I’ll just say many. They’re enjoyable to create though.

Gray.

Whoa, thats a drawing?! Thought it was from the RAF website for a second then!