Rendering aircraft

>>3090904
its generally metal, so make the surfaces of it highly reflective with a strong and defined source of light, also remember to take bounce light and cast shadows into account

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>>3090904
>>3091330
Actually aircraft paints are low sheen, but appear glossy in strong sunlight. Only early Cold War american designs used bare metal that is highly reflective.

>>3090904
Read How to Render by Scott Robertson.

>>3091830
This is really good. Thanks, mate.
I'd like to have a few artists for "master" studies later on though.

>>3091836
I like John Liberto a lot. These days he doesn't do much in terms of planes, but if you search around online you can find some of his older pieces.

Otherwise just study from photos. There's tons of great photos of planes from all angles in all lighting.

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>>3091839
>John Liberto
His sci-fi stuff is great too. Photos studies are good and I plan on using them a lot, but master studies are about using better artists as reference to aid in learning the ropes. I also helps when you wish to draw some fictional designs.
I quite like peter6409 (pictured) and inui (aka jt1116) myself, but I don't have a large list of artists I know in the first place.

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>>3091840
Maybe try Paperblue, though you'll need to sift through a ton of his images to find the few that are relevant to you. But he paints in a more transparent and painterly way which might be a nice change from the other guys you are looking at.

Mullins also has a few, but not that many, pic related is one. He's good to look at for materials and lighting in general though.

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>>3091843
Paperblue's environments are really neat to look at. The way he paints is really interesting and pleasing, but it's not the direction I'm planning to go.
Do you have a link to Mullins' gallery or his first name? Reverse image seach only turned up what is, I assume, a mobile game using that picture.

>>3091855
Yeah it's Craig Mullins. He's widely considered the best digital painter on the planet, so he's good to know. Though as I said before, he hasn't painted that many aircraft.
Here's his site http://www.goodbrush.com/

>>3091859
... As usual I'm completely ignorant of the big names.
After browsing through the different categories I didn't find aircraft, other than hovercrafts and other science fiction vehicles. Thank you nonetheless.