Re: Forthcoming book: LOCKHEED MARTIN SKUNK WORKS: 75th Anniversary
These are absolutely amazing. True assets for your book.
Not that keen on Guiseppe de Chiara's three-views personally, not because of the art or the colors, which are always superb... but simply because of the rather crude way he does the light reflections: on the wings, for instance, it's always the same straight light bar halfway across the middle, but in actual lighting it wouldn't work that way at all. It makes it look like the wings are tubular. Or the way he did the light on the fin here makes it look like it's thicker and as if it suddenly became blunt towards the edges, while the taper is actually much progressive. This is only my opinion of course, not meant to be derogatory but meant as constructive criticism; I'm perfectly aware of how difficult lighting is, and that it's one of the most difficult things to master (I'm far from satisfied with it on my own works most of the time).
