However, while I was modeling it after a previous design, it wasn't James Cameron's, it was mine. In 1994 or so, I started what was then an ambitious project: a 16" x 20" gouache illustration. It was meant to depict Air Station Kodiak in the near future and in the starring role was a SAR rotorcraft I designed, the HH-90d. I never got farther than transferring the image to illustration board and painting the cockpit, though. I only mention it today because, while cleaning up our 'library' I found the 16-year-old sketch (sadly, the unfinished painting is lost). Embiggen it, it's bigger.
Overall, it looks pretty good, but there are a few things wrong with it. Most obvious is the lack of true perspective. Each item is on its own plane almost as if I was using the ancient Egyptian canon. Also, was my lack of futurist vision. As of 2003, the building you see in the background is no longer the helicopter hanger; I'm not sure what it is. It's been around since WW2 and there's no real reason to think it'd be around in another twenty years. My retcon is that it's not the future, it's an alternative 1994! Trivia: I had a friend take a photo of me in my flight gear standing by a fire bottle for reference.
I'm considering seeing if I can make it work, but the perspective may bug me to much.
listening to while posting: Sweet Enemy using the vacuum cleaner on some sort of dirt.
2 comments:
That is a really cool picture! As you said, it's a bummer the painting is gone..but maybe you can start a new one? Love to hear how an artist works and "stuff". Hope all is going well with you! This is Lady Bug...something w/my password??!!
@LB: GAH! Don't sneak up on me like that!
All is pretty good, considering. Lots of time for art.
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