Bare-Butt Ugly Helicopter

In the middle of this drawing I was reminded of middle school. At that time I was playing Shadowrun (a futuristic book-based role playing game), mostly by myself, but occasionally at school. I liked developing new players, weapons, and vehicles. I was also playing Car Wars, another paper RPG, at that time. For one game or the other, I had designed a custom vehicle for the game, and had done my best to make a very crude drawing of the vehicle in what was then Aldus Pagemaker. Even the best computer artist at the time could not have got that program to produce a good drawing (it was really more for page layout), and I was far from good at that time. Anyways, I've got this crude print at the top of a stack of papers at study hall in school when I'm playing one of these games with friends. Some older RPG type-guy comes over to observe us, and he notices the rendering. He says "Man! That is butt ugly. That is bare-butt ugly!" Of course I made the excuses offered above, which doesn't seem to soften his disdain for this particular piece of art.

Got the basic drawing down before my brain overloaded. In my mind, to be perfect perfect perfect, I need to show the camouflage and faction logo (see last post). But I decided to stop and scan while I'm ahead, because I feel like I could ruin the drawing by doing either of those. In reality, that's not really that likely, especially since pencils have erasers. But that doesn't stop my mind from worrying.

The reference I used is from Sikorsky's web site. This is their X2 prototype, a helicopter with two main rotors for lift and a rear rotor for forward propulsion. For my purposes, it works because it looks so sleek and futuristic, and of course bare-butt ugly, like all things functional. It will do for now.