Bringing Life to a Drawing...
Well, it's taken some time - actually a lot of time - but I've finally reached the final part of my technical drawing process, the rendering (or shading if you life). In fact, you could say that it's drawing to and end! 😁
Having completed the basic outline drawing and applied the colour scheme I now move on to the trickier part of the artwork - the rendering of a realistic shading of the aircraft...
The purpose of this graphical house keeping was so that I would be able to utilise this design file easily again in doing another version of the plane or so with some minor modification do a different version of the Mirage. After putting all this work in I'd like to reap the benefit by doing at least a couple of different variations on the basic design.
Essentially, though, this is a learning process and I am getting a *little* better at how to produce faux-3D effects to produce a somewhat convincing rendition of an aircraft. Though, at this stage, I am restricting the level of detail a bit to make this early attempt a little less complicated. Things like rivets and the network of panel lines that criss-cross an metal aeroplane have been left out for another day.
I'm enjoying this drawing exercise and hopefully I'll get faster as I get more experience. My goal is rather ambitious in that I want to return to the Yorkshire Air Museum to do profiles of more of their exhibits. I already have enough reference footage of the Mirage IIE's bigger brother - the huge Mirage IV nuclear bomber!
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| A little doodle I did of the Mirage IV bomber. |
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