Digital Profiles - 2D Modeling

 I've been working in Photoshop 7 nearing 20 years now. And I pay close attention to the work of other aviation illustrators .My modeling habits focusing on  accuracy and detail have stayed with me, unchanged.. so the transition from one form of modeling to another was somewhat seamless. 

We who do this sort of thing strive for a certain kind of pictorial 'realism' - my aim is to have the viewer believe they could reach in and pick up the illustration as if it were indeed a model.

I live in Atlantic Canada and am an active member of IPMS Canada.

My drawings range in working size from 5000x to 10,ooo pixils ; large makes for lots of work, but much room for detail. The images you see here are compressed, for space..

Early this year '(22) Terry Leversedge (Kestrel Publications-Canada) was kind enough to include some of my drawings in his most recent publications - CF-18 Hornet in RCAF Service, and Spitfire in RCAF Service.

Bob Aikens

timewarpaikens@gmail.com

i do miss the feel and the smells of plastic modeling, and also the benefits of friendships in the modeling community; modeling, like any other good hobby is much about community.

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I've been traveling in Europe since the 70s and my wife Pattie and I have made numerous and extensive train journeys through the BeNeLux countries and France.

oddball graphics - I've done the odd bit of graphic work over the years; I'll be working on a collection and presentation of it.