B-25J. A bit of aviation art

[RomanKL]

I have created this work in Photoshop.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/RomanKL/B-25.jpg

[Ismail]

Very nice.

Please post more pieces. :)

Which brushes did you use in Photoshop?

[bracomadar]

Sweet. Just my opinion, but I think it would look more "intense" if you added the scene of a burning city below, instead of just blue, and, or maybe a few more planes flying in the background. Also, try adding some orange, or explosiveness to the flak to make it look more dangerous. Also, some nose art on the plane would be nice. ;) Don't get me wrong, you got the look of the bomber and everything down good, but the scene just seems too calm looking to me. Of course maybe that’s what you were going for. Just curious, but is this suppose to be European, or Pacific theater of operations? It looks Pacific to me with the background looking teal like the Pacific Ocean.

[dogfood]

I don't want to bust on bracomadar, nor assume you were about to take his advice, but sometimes, it's all about the fine art of dropping ordnance on target; when there's nothing else in the world. Everything else fades back, the engine noise, your heart beating in your chest, and your vision narrows down to the target. It's called target fixation and it's both frightening and beautiful.

I love the Mitchell and this is fantastic, but the far wing appears to be a little far back and a tad too high. And it's hard to even justify that, as it might just be the lighting. The far engine face seems a little too head on to us. It looks like the same shape as the near one, though the cowling looks right.

This is beautiful.

[chukw]

Man,that's nice- a beautiful rendition of the subject. The '25 had an interesting gull wing dihedral- that might be the reason the wing looks off to you, dogfood. This is one slick-ass piece, and needs no "burning city" to "intensify" it, in my opinion. Cheers!

PS- What was your ref for this?

[RomanKL]

Very nice.

Please post more pieces. :)

Thanks for good comments everyone. <3

Well... Ok. I don't know how the community will reappraise this tragic scene, but it was order as series of airplanes.

D3A1 Val dives to ships at Perl Harbour.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36/RomanKL/Val.jpg

Which brushes did you use in Photoshop?

I use standart round soft Photoshop brushes, but I play with transparensy and size of them and make many touches to surface to get effect of real brushes. Before I have been corrupted by Photoshop I draw with acrylic and there I try to use similar technique.

[RomanKL]

Sweet. Just my opinion, but I think it would look more "intense" if you added the scene of a burning city below, instead of just blue, and, or maybe a few more planes flying in the background. Also, try adding some orange, or explosiveness to the flak to make it look more dangerous. Also, some nose art on the plane would be nice. ;) Don't get me wrong, you got the look of the bomber and everything down good, but the scene just seems too calm looking to me. Of course maybe that’s what you were going for. Just curious, but is this suppose to be European, or Pacific theater of operations? It looks Pacific to me with the background looking teal like the Pacific Ocean.

These pictures I have drown as a part of wallpaper series for "Pacific Fighters", PC flight combat simulator. The main task was to show the airplane.
http://www.pacific-fighters.com/en/home.php

Yes. this is Pacific theather. Therefore, B-25 hasn't European D-Day markings.
Regarding nose art. Yes, I thought about that, but this means concrete airplane that couldn't be in companies of the game.

[Clockwork]

Damn man, these are sensational. There's so much atmosphere in both of these I feel like I can breathe in them, and the rendering's top-notch.

The one thing that tweaks me is on the Val. Everything's done really well, but along the edge of the wing leading to the tip, there's the "halo" effect happening around it - with that black smoke, it's especially noticeable. I can see a similar thing happening on the canopy, but it looks much more striking and appropriate - in that wing section, it either looks forced, or that you were afraid to bring the background right up to the wing.

I see the same thing around both wheel struts, and the halo's a pretty constant width, so it again really points to that "fear" feeling. Either way, I really have this desire for that leading edge on the wing to be as sharp as can be, so it really directs the composition to the center. But overall, totally awesome job. :)

[RomanKL]

Damn man, these are sensational. There's so much atmosphere in both of these I feel like I can breathe in them, and the rendering's top-notch.

The one thing that tweaks me is on the Val. Everything's done really well, but along the edge of the wing leading to the tip, there's the "halo" effect happening around it - with that black smoke, it's especially noticeable. I can see a similar thing happening on the canopy, but it looks much more striking and appropriate - in that wing section, it either looks forced, or that you were afraid to bring the background right up to the wing.

I see the same thing around both wheel struts, and the halo's a pretty constant width, so it again really points to that "fear" feeling. Either way, I really have this desire for that leading edge on the wing to be as sharp as can be, so it really directs the composition to the center. But overall, totally awesome job. :)

Thanks a lot for your comments!

Yes, I added some light airbrushing behind and around the airplane in order to pull the airplane up to foreground more definitely and cut that away from background. To get more air between levels. Althought the background in this scene is very important, by main subject of this work - the airplane.

[ColdKodiak]

I have created this work in Photoshop.

heh.


yeah, the propeller blur in the first pic for the right engine (the plane's right engine) looks a bit too big, and not quite the right elipse for the angle. I'd check it again.

[Pavel Sokov]

damn these are very good..
i wonna see some action though, with bullets hitting the planes..
damn it must be scary being in a plane in the back without a roof being shot at, like the dude in ur second pic.. just think about how scary that would be