Good P-38 Graphic.. Have One?

hsperdue · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:56 am

Does anybody have a good graphic of a OD green P-38... profile or quarter shot... anything?

Thanks!

lowpass · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:25 am

I just posted a picture a few days ago of an OD P-38 that crashed. You can see the front end pretty well.

Kyle

hsperdue · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:25 pm

lowpass wrote:

I just posted a picture a few days ago of an OD P-38 that crashed. You can see the front end pretty well.

Kyle

Kyle-

Thanks... but the last thing I want is a graphic of a crashed airplane. The need is for a graphic (as opposed to a picture) to put on a T-shirt....

g

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:53 pm

Do you mean a picture??????????
Graphic :idea:

hsperdue · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:59 pm

[quote="Jack Cook"]Do you mean a picture??????????
Graphic :idea:

That might work thanks! Interesting shot... very different!

fritzthefox · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:09 pm

I did this illo of Glacier Girl a while back. I can scrounge up a high-res copy without the background or nose art, if you want. If you are going to use it commercially, though, I want a free t-shirt...

PhantomAce08 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:13 pm

fritzthefox wrote:

I did this illo of Glacier Girl a while back. I can scrounge up a high-res copy without the background or nose art, if you want. If you are going to use it commercially, though, I want a free t-shirt...

How exactly did you do that? Is it a photo that you edited or what?

Paul Krumrei · **Joined:** Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:06 pm **Posts:** 1757

fritzthefox · **Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:35 am

Lightning illo was done in Illustrator and Photoshop, working from a reference photo.

If I'm in a hurry, I often will simply (gasp) import a photo into Illustrator and trace the outlines. I then normally spend entirely too long futzing with the line work because the photo wasn't exactly what I wanted, or it otherwise doesn't look quite right, making me wonder why I didn't just freehand the thing in the first place. But I like to nail the proportions quickly, and it saves me drawing and scanning in a sketch. (I got into the habit of doing it that way while animating, when I had to fart out lots of aircraft drawings quickly. It's a bad habit, but it's a huge timesaver.) I then add some basic color, markings, etc and import the lot into Photoshop, where a I spend a lot of time selecting various regions of the plane and saving the selections off into channels (in much the same way you would cut masks from frisket in preparation for an airbrush illustration). I then break out the airbrush tool and start painting. Many objects will be created on separate layers (like the markings, or the canopy glass) to make them easier to edit and so I can composite them in a variety of ways until I find something that I like.

Recently I've begun trying some pure vector art using illustrator and Flash, which is more limiting and therefore more challenging. I've been interested in moving away from realism towards more stylized work. I also like the utility of vector art, since my work is done more for commercial uses than anything.

jb · **Joined:** Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:47 pm **Posts:** 10

Finished this a little while ago. Representing the Classic Fighter Jets, lightning during its active service.

Currently nearing the completion of its restoration.

jb

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