Wednesday, August 26, 2009

IF : Caution

With much caution and great precision the jumbo jet was manoeuvred into its parking space.
NOTE: This is a quick watercolor drawing I did based on some earlier airport sketches. My scanner is having trouble with colored images, so after scanning in B&W mode a tinge of color was added digitally. Oh! Another thing, when I was a kid I always used to think that those signalmen used Ping Pong bats to direct airliners on runways!

16 comments:

Amy C said...

beautiful sketch, I love the straight on view of the plane, airports can be such interesting places, I love to people watch!
Ping Pong Bats hee heeee they might as well use them they look just like them.

Jason Curtis said...

Beautiful watercolour.

That's pretty funny about the Ping Pong bats by the way!

Nessa Dee said...

Nice linework and perspective! The nuetral tones are great!

sandygrafik said...

I love your sketch and the colors you use on it are great! Oh, thanks for stopping by!!

Vanessa Brantley Newton said...

How wonderful is this sketch??? I love the sepia color too. very warm and very nicely illustrated. Great work my friend. thanks for stopping by.

perezvila™ said...

i though just the same about the bats!!

INDIGENE said...

Great illustration!

Shirley said...

Your sketches ROCK! Great movement and love the palette...funny about those ping-pong paddles!!

Liza said...

Love the sepia colouring. I thought they were ping pong bats too!

Anonymous said...

Love the work on your blog. Great pen lines & cartoon style. Great sense of humor too.

R.Dress said...

Fly me to the moon... she's a beaut!

Loni Edwards said...

This is a great illo! Cool idea and I love the perspective!

Laurel Neustadter said...

I like the perspective and monotone washes on this. Funny memory about the ping pong bats.

Pencil Pocket said...

Love the way you've used the watercolours and limited the palette. This is really beautiful!

Asja said...

beautiful sketch, you did such a great job!

justdoodleit said...

>Amy,
Airports are really awesome places to sketch. Both people and plane-wise :)

>Ako,
Thanks!

>Jason,
Well, it does seem funny now! Back in 3rd grade it seemed reasonable :)

>Nessa,
>sandybau,
>INDIGENE,
>Loni,
>Laurel,
Thank you for the nice words!

>Vanessa,
>Shirley,
Pleasure to hear from you ladies again. Your comments are always appreciated!

>perezvila,
>Liza,
Great to hear you thought the same thing too. It has Ping Pong written all over it ;)

>FRANK,
Welcome and such a pleasure to hear from you :)

>R.Dress,
Hop on..."I'm Leaving on a jet plane"

>Pencil,
Thanks Kirstie! The wonky scanner was largely responsible for the new palette :)

>Asja,
Many thanks for the nice words :)

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