RAF Hudson

I'm psyching myself up for a vehicle drawing that I'm going to do in a few minutes. I drew this to get in the technical mind-set. On wartime planes, I love camouflage logic: showing a sky grey color on the bottom, and broken ground colors on the top, all jiggy jaggy, with necessary flags and emblems that stand out. Then during peacetime they repaint everything to geometric and simple.

The helicopter I'm going to draw in a few minutes is a sketch for an adaptation of Frederik Pohl's novel Jem. It's about rival factions on earth that each put several colonists in competing camps on a new planet. Because they're not technically at war at the beginning of the story, it will make for an interesting hybrid of civilian and military deco for the helicopter.

I'm also realizing that I haven't found my sweet spot with vehicles. On various projects I've sketched plenty of them, but I haven't found what it takes to put the finish on them. Figure drawings have an elegant way of drawing me back in, engaging my interest so that I can leave it at a good point. I look forward to slaying this dragon today.