Curtiss P40's of the Flying Tigers

Finally back to doing some graphics again. This illustration shows a pair of P40's from the 23rd Fighter Group, Flying Tigers, Burma 1942. The four planes are 100% vector and the background is a mix of vector and raster.

Awesome work Gray. Your planes are always enjoyable to see. Is the explosion all vector or just the plane parts?

Great work once again Gray, love those P-40's, the Zero hit is great. I'm currently working on a BF-109 for a friend as time permits :D

He's back. :)

Great rendering and really excellent effect on the plane bursting into fire.

Beautiful work. =D>

Really talented rendering, but the composition doesn't grab me like it usually does. :-(

Thanks Frances, Merv, Gary, Rik, and Paul for taking a look.
Frances although the background is a mix of vector and raster the explosion is raster, not to say that vector couldn't be used to produce that. It's just quicker for some effects to use raster.
Merv, looking forward to seeing that 109 when you get it finished.

You should do drawings for a aircraft museum or something of the like.
Fantastic rendering as always Gray.

Thanks Ron, much appreciate your comment.

Very nice as usual Gray, and as usual I am captivated by and wondering how you do your clouds.

Thanks so much,Larry.
I lay the cloud shapes and colours out in vector first Larry, Then I digitally detail them in raster, kind of like my own paint by numbers.

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kind of like my own paint by numbers.

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Interesting you should say that Gray. When I was delineating sometimes people would teasingly ask "where are the numbers?" Thanks for the mini tutorial, I knew that was sort of how you did them but I am still always amazed.

Hi Gray, your airplanes are now legendary. I really love the way you draw distant fields and clouds. Have you done a tutorial on clouds? If not please, please do because if there is a master at it You are he..!

Thanks, Tabian. I haven't done a tut on clouds because they'r a mix of vector and raster, so I didn't think it really fit in at the site here.

Another inspirational piece Gray. You always seem to avoid the obvious rendition & pique my curiosity.

I'll admit, I had to look it up but, whilst most people would have rendered the P-40 in the Chinese Nationalist markings, you've gone for the "post" classic Flying Tiger period. Well done to you Sir for not taking the obvious path in your illustrations! =D>

Thanks BR, there is another illustration on the Flying Tigers I'm working on that will be in the classic volunteer markings.
Cheers.

Hi gray!

You draw the same things I like to draw - My medium is pencil and ink. I'm trying to get the Xara/Intuos thing down. Any chance you could throw a .xar file of one of your drawings for me to analyze? Sorry if it's not cool to ask such things, but I really want to look at a professionals' Xara breakdown. Thanks!

Hi ACE,
I just dabble in graphics as a way to spend some spare time. My way of wasting a little winter time.
It just takes a little time to grasp working in vectors. There are some great tuts on the site here.
I'll go dig up an old file and post it for you to pick apart.
Do you post your pen and ink work at a site? I'd like to see it.
I'll go looking and post that file later today.

Outstanding! I am always so impressed by your work.

Cheers, Mike.