StarJack Star-fighter Process Wip

Heres the steps on the Starjack varients.

• Do your initial Sketch 
• Scan in the drawing and remember the settings for some later steps.That or just don't change them;)
• Impose some rough Geo using a 3d program.This was just ment to be a guide for me seeing as im still struggling with perspective.the nice part is theres nothing "true" about the Geo placement i just rotated the shapes until they looked right. I wouldn't necessarily do this step every time.
• Now print out your images.The important step was to print the image on the page and let it do it at its native resolution which should be 1:1 with the original .
• Draw all the crazy stuff you want to add!!Weeeeee!!!
• Scan the new drawings in using the original scanner settings .because the image is 1:1 you can copy paste the new detail drawings over your original in Photoshop.Line them up .
• erase the crappy parts of the new Drawing revealing the original underneath.
• Done!

StarJack Star-fighter and variants

this was in exercise in creating variants of a concept.I plan on doing some color and toning of it at some point in the future .

WW 2 fighter plane engine studies

I was Doing some plane concepts the other day and realized i kept falling back on certain things .A hinge works like this .A vent looks like this. A pipe attaches like this.I was finding it wasn't looking very convincing to me and it didn't give me allot of variety to" jam" with in whence to  kick forth.

 My idea at that point was to try and add to my Brain library .I gather up a heap of reference and just redraw what was there in front of me .I found  the shapes can look like a big mess but allot of the times your forcing your brain to conjugate what your looking at which  was pretty cool .The more you understand how something works the better you can twist it and still have it look good. The vocabulary of an engine tends to be intake /exhaust /thrust and if you can describe these in a new way  or  specify  how it works better in your image than you will probably have something people will like and relate to .

Since i did this study i have not yet gone back and tried more plane concepts  but i do know i put a few more things   in my brain Library  and this is a good thing.

A4 Bombing run