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Hands down to u my man, Great work, I save those pharses for some of the best artist.

Here's what I would do next someow combine of those engines and put them inside a design of a poD racer of your own then create technical Illustrations of it and a BOM list. And send it into movie or game companys, and let us know what kind of responses you get, those big companys might be looking for u. U would probably be applying for HArdsurfaces for props and vehicles and ships , cars, boats.
not sure what type of opportunitys u get, but i've seen artist like you work side by side with me.

if u do let us know I certainly would love to hear about your adventures.

once again cool job

This thread has become a bit of a chat-board, so going to add to the conversation.

James, the Turboprop Engine Cutaway is still one of my favourite pieces of yours.

http://jamesprovost.com/portfolio/cutaw ... ne-cutaway

Without giving away too much, can you tell me what your approach was for this illustration. The engine is clearly very detailed so you must have spent a lot of time on it. Did you "build" the engine first, then model the plane around it? Did you define the persective or did you have a base image that you worked off of?

I'm learning that choosing the right perspective of even iso view can make life a lot easier going forward.

Thanks Matt— That was actually a school project, so I only had what reference material I could find online, and in 2006 that wasn't too much. A friend had a bit of info on the engine, a Pratt & Whitney PW100, so the drawing started as a De Havilland Dash 8. After some sketches to explore possible viewing angles, I did rough perspective drawings of the engine and fuselage separately.
I'm not particularly proud of that drawing, it's pretty sloppy, but there it is in the interest of transparency. The fuselage looks like it was drawn with plan projection (the SP mark at the top gives that away), so I must have worked from top and side schematics of the plane. The engine was drawn from orthographics and a bunch of off-angle photos.

I didn't like how the wing was covering the tail, so I did a bit more research and discovered the Bombardier Q400, which is basically an elongated version of the Dash 8. Coincidentally, Porter Airlines flies Q400s in and out of downtown Toronto all day long and I had no idea. There's probably a lesson in there for students to get away from their desks once in a while and have a look around

Anyway, from there I brought it into Illustrator, recreated the perspective grid, then "inked" it, correcting perspective and adding detail as I went. Painting was done in Photoshop.

In retrospect, I kind of bumbled through the project making it up as I went along, but I'm still proud of the results.

JamesProvost wrote:

q400-sketch.jpg

I think the sketch is terrific.

Hey, everyone. Here is a new one, the "nomad."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rbDGPVn_kiA/V ... nomadA.jpg

abrown wrote:Hey, everyone. Here is a new one, the "nomad."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rbDGPVn_kiA/V ... nomadA.jpg

This is really amazing. I really enjoy your surface treatments, coloring and lighting.

Jim

looks nice.

abrown wrote:Hey, everyone. Here is a new one, the "nomad."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rbDGPVn_kiA/V ... nomadA.jpg

looks nice.
It looks like u used Keyshot lets everyone make some cool materials. and maybe some Photoshop.

Hi, JuanCal. I rendered it in 3dsmax. Instead of photoshop, I used Blender's composite tool. I'm starting to prefer it's node editor-- i can always go back and change things...

-aaron

abrown wrote:Hey, everyone. Here is a new one, the "nomad."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rbDGPVn_kiA/V ... nomadA.jpg

Wow, simply amazing! Thanks for posting.