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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 07, 2007, 05:04:27 PM »

Second method is with airbrush. Take some medium grey color and set brush regime as Dissolve and Opacity not over the 30%. Spray over the selected area.

Then go to the layer panel and set Layer Style as Beveal & Emboss, Layer Behavior as Multiply and opacity low, I set it on 11%. You can use Blur as in the previous method.

Last image is the final result of the previous technique... but in a reason of compression this fabric is not notable as on my screen. But for sure it look nice in publication print- I have do that.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 07, 2007, 04:58:42 PM »

Fabric covering is typical for the early stage in aviation construction. There is few methods how to make this on the color profile and I will describe her two of them.

In first method use the Paint Bucket tool and choose regime of pattern. I hope that you have enough of pattern in your library and some good pattern are stone, fabric, noise, sand, textile... So take any of them and pour over the selected area. Selected are is complete new layer just for the fabric covering and this have to be under the layer with shadows.

Image two present the result of what we have get and this is more blurred with Gaussian Blur, set on one or two pixels. Now set the Behavior of layer on Multiply and opacity not over the 30%.

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Gloster Meteor

« on: May 07, 2007, 02:21:35 PM »

Here it is some data about the Meteor in service of Armee de'l Air:

Meteor F- 4 - 2 samples
Meteor NF- 11 - 41 samples
Meteor NF- 13 - 2 samples
Meteor NF- 14 - 2 samples
Meteor TT 20 - 6 samples
Meteor T- 7 - 13 samples

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Warplane Art / Re: Aircraft Drawings

« on: May 06, 2007, 11:58:42 PM »

 

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Warplane Art / Re: F3H-Demon

« on: May 06, 2007, 11:57:28 PM »

 

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Cockpit images

« on: May 06, 2007, 11:28:51 PM »

 

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 06, 2007, 10:58:12 PM »

Wait- you did not do like this?

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Cockpit images

« on: May 06, 2007, 10:20:11 PM »

And get this one too:

http://www.militaryfactory.com/cockpits/index.asp

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Combat Warplanes / Cockpit images

« on: May 06, 2007, 10:15:06 PM »

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/books/cockpit/small/page_01.htm

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 06, 2007, 05:36:23 PM »

The same situation is with the bolts. There is two layers. Image present more live version of the art with bolts added. And the final image is just to test your imagination... final technique to finish this is the method used to paint grass, plants, hair... and this is the most important stage of your art- imagination and feeling 

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 06, 2007, 01:07:42 PM »

Final work belongs to the stroke over the panel edges. This will give closer impression to the light fall over the surface and better denote shape and structure. First you have to know from where is light coming. Then in regards to this you can make these highlights.

First create new layer and call it... see the image. This layer coming over last panel lines layer, never under!!! Make paths in very close distance to the panels and then make stroke path. For stroke path use brush, size 1-3 pixels, opacity 15% and color is white.

Final result is down there

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 06, 2007, 12:48:34 PM »

Continue the story about the panels. Problem begins when we introduce shadows and highlight in our art. This is coming in separate layer and above all of the previous layers. This is in a reason that it has to give influence to the previous layers as well with layer with panels. But then will happen something we don't want- panels will get shadows too and they could not have it. This is gap hole and it is dark. So there is more work to make it more realistic.

So back into the Panel layer and click on it to become active. Then right click on it and take option Duplicate layer. This will make new layer, identical to the original. This copy of layer clicks and pulls it above the layer with shadows. One thing you don't need any more is the layer Style. When layer have style you will see this in the layer filed and this is indicate on image 3. Take click on this layer and drag it to the Trash been at the bottom right corner of the Layer panel.

If you have done all of this you will still has not very realistic panels. This is because they are too visible and now there have to be reduced their visibility. Set top panel layer 40% [as you see on image 4] and the lower, which is under shadow, on 80%. This value varies and this is just instant suggestion.

In general you have now created panel lines with their full intensity. But more work still has to be done.

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Warplane Art / Re: Illustration basic technique

« on: May 06, 2007, 11:44:57 AM »

Let’s see some advanced method of the panels on the airplane art. In the previous post is described how to make this panels and this is dedicated to the persons with no skill at all in the aviation art but as I said basic level in the Photoshop is necessary.

One of the most important tools is Pen. We call it from the keyboard by pressing of P. There are few Pen tools but we need Pen tool, not Free Pen tool. When we get it some panels are changed and in the top panel we now see option for this tool. Watch at the left arrow- it is pointed on this panel. You will see three small marks for Pen tool work regime. We have pointed and selected the middle of them by click on it. This work regime create path which we will use. Left of this create vector path and automatically create new layer. On the right side is regime where path stay in the same layer where we work but the path is filling with color. To repeat- we need regime which is in the middle icon. Then we are creating paths which are in the same position and shape as the panels on the actual object. Making of path is easy- click on one side and finish it on the other side. 
There is show strait but also curved shape can be made. It is important to create a bulk of path but you will be faced with problem- active paths. When you make one path which present panel on airplane you will have to make another and problem is that this panel is not connected with previous. Photoshop does not know how the panel looks on the airplane and next point you make will be connected with previous, from panel before. How to stop this? Simply- when you make one panel and want to make another one you have just to move Pen cursor some out side and hold ctrl and left click on the canvas field. Path you have just created is deselected. You will see just some tiny lines, and you will make the rest of the paths. Important- when you make the last panel then you again repeat deselecting method.

And did I have to tell you that you get to have separate layer for panels only?

Before you go into the making panel creating stoke you have to make some preparation with brushes. Take brush but this has to be airbrush. Brush gives to sharp edges and this does not look very real. In the airbrush the edge of stroke is soft and this looks much better. 
Set the opacity 100%, color must be black and diameter not larger then 4 pixels... this depend to the actual size of your art.

If the brush is set you have to take again your pen tool and make solution with right click. When you make right click you will get drop down menu and from this menu you have to choose option Stroke Path. Then you will get the panel as you see on image 2. What you have to do is to take Brush tool and you take it from drop down menu. By default there is Pencil tool [I never use it BTW]. Also note small label down on the left side- Simulate Pressure. 
This will make that your path disappear at the end point and this you don’t need. If you have set all as see on this image then click OK. Panels are created. There is possibility to make additional adjustment on this layer where panel lines are. To do this just simply looks at the bottom of the Layer panel. Second from left is the icon which indicates Layer Style. You have to note that Layer Style and Layer Behavior are not the same. So click on the Style icon and see the drop down menu. In this case we will take Outer Glow. Outer Glow is very important method of indicate the shape and dynamics of the panels and must say that menu artist use it in not just proper way. Why? I noted that many of them use black or very dark grey to spread around the panels and this is basic omission. 
The same panels are on the real airplane plates of metal or another hard material and their edges have a highlight and this is oppose from the dark as you know. The same panels we are drawing actually do not exist- this is just a gap between two panels. So when working panels try to note this.

On the last image is the Outer Glow panel which jumps in front of us and maybe scare some of us. When I have seen it first time, some three years ago I have click on cancel, turn of Photoshop and feel very desperate. But it is so easy. Follow these steps and enjoy.

Take attention just on the fields indicate with red ellipse, the rest you will learn later... a lot of experiment you have to do. First thing you have to change is the color. This is the second mark on image. Click on it and you will see panel with color. Choose white color. Click OK and return to this panel again. Now watch up- Opacity. By default it is 75% and I have reduced this, in this sample 45%. This will see changes on the image you are working in the moment. Also reduce size of the Outer Glow and I have taken it from 5 pixels to the 4.

In the Quality section you have to take shape of this glow. Click on it and try it- I use default but maybe some other will better fit what you are doing. And last thing you have to set is to reduce range of the glow.

As final result this will be array of panels with soft outer glow in lighter color.

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Warplane Art / Re: No- this is not art

« on: May 06, 2007, 08:07:12 AM »

Great words gentlemen's  Just to note that not only in 3D but also in 2D graphic, as I do, can be make very realistic art 

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Combat Warplanes / Re: Some relics from Russia

« on: May 05, 2007, 08:01:52 PM »

It must be repainted original RAF roundels.