Wow, what a bunch of craziness! First off, AKP, thanks a lot for making a much better rebuttal than I would ever have been able to do. I've never really messed with Photoshop so I can't really use it for beans. I appreciate the work you put into that pretty obvious slam. It brought a smile to my face. The fact that he doesn't want to believe that it's a drawing that I made is really fairly insignifigant to me. My friends and family and everyone that I know and care about know the truth because they all saw it being done, my squaddies know, because they saw in progress shots and then the finished work too. That alone is good enough for me. You guys all coming out to back me up and even doing work to prove my point, that's just a sweet icing on the cake. I appreciate it, thanks all.
ace pilot, thanks for calling me a cheater! WooHoo!!
The order that I drew it in was basically the same as I work on any actual drawing that is more than just a quick sketch. I draw a good and only slightly sketchy outline and I make sure all my proportions are right before I go any further. I make sure everything lines up relative to every landmark that I can see. I draw upside down and right side up and sideways and at all angles, I move the paper any which way as I go. Once that is done I start blocking in the areas that are going to be darker and working the detail and shading into those areas and then I follow up withe the lighter areas. I usually start on whatever area looks the most interesting to draw first, failing that I work left to right, since I'm right handed. I actually think I started from the left and worked my way right on that one. I know all the detail work was done that way for sure, but I think I sketched it out in that order also, to the best of my recollection. The basic line drawing was done in an hour or two, the rest of it took months.
Here's another pic that kind of shows my methodology, it was juuuust about finished when the fire took it too. I was drawing this for a friend of mine who also happens to be an AH player. I met him back in aw days, his father was a Naval aviator during the war, and this is a portrait of him that I was making. I never got to send him the finished product because of the fire, and I've always regretted that.
Another note on the apartment fire, it not only destroyed all my artwork, but also all my supplies, all my paints, pencils and erasers and paper, my airbrush and good silent compressor, all my model building equipment and kits, furniture clothes and everything else. I got out with my dog and my girlfriend and the clothes that I put on when the dog woke us up. I'm only just now beginning to restock stuff. I can't understand what anyone would think that I stand to gain by lying about all of that just out of the blue.
Thank you all.
