The fighter is almost finished, except for further detail which I will do in the final coloring. Think I’m going to make the canopy open side ways (less work, heheh…)
I wanted to add a mechanic, but I will do him only if I have sufficient time left.
no criticisms. I really like your method of colouring - very smooth, but still gives a feeling of lots of depth. I guess I like it because it’s different from my very detaily way of rendering. Hope you finish it all,
I see you’ve found your nose art. Very nice! Reminds me of the P-51 Mustangs from WWII. Can we have a peek at the rest of your canvas?
edit: I mean the P-41 Mustang. 
Finally the enemy…
One fighterbomber escorted by a fighter.
bolchover, thanks for the support!
I too hope to finish in time 
Ilikesoup, thanks buddy! Here’s the canvas. Working on the middle parts now…
It’s P-51(D) btw, my favorite plane, very sexy.
Wow, this is really cool work! Always loved your clean lines and colouring style in the daily sketches… 
The only thing that strikes me is that the pilot girl might be a little hard to pick out against the dark background. Maybe a bit of silhouette lighting from the flames or something? In any case, looking forward to seeing the final product!
V_Shane thanks man!
What do you mean by carbon scoring?
Vitriolic, hey, I was thinking the same thing about the pilot today. I think you are right, I’ll try tweaking it at the final coloring stage. Thanks mate!
Enemy fighters … check.
Next the background (planet and Mothership)
it certainly keeps getting better, i cant get over how crisp the overall look is. it really stands out, still no real crits, im just looking forward to seeing it finished.
One very large enemy cruiser deploying fighters & bombers and targeting an intercepting frigat… yup.
I made the cruiser a bit bigger…
It’s distance is still a few dozen km away, I want to portray it as huge.
The blue line that runs down the rocks is the edge of the EM-field that separates the hangar from space. (Still not 100% sure how to depict this)
Oh Conundrum, thanks again. Hope I won’t disappoint you!
hey art2, it’s looking great! the addition of the big ships moves the eye attention back where it should be, good work!
That EM Field of the last picture…I don’t know how could you make it, but for the moment it’s not readable without your explanation, imo. oh, and the bomb falling… I think you should rotate it to be either horizontal or pointing slightly downwards…
…minor details…good luck with it 
I decided to delete the frigat.
It was too busy :), I will add lots of little fighters leaving the mothership.
Next I will start the final coloring. Tightening things up, adding more detail, think about colors etc.
The end is near…
Very distinct style. I think you have an edge over some of the other work here with your style. Im looking forward to the final image. Good luck my friend.
Left side of the canvas finished (I think
Hope to wrap this baby up tonight…
Voytek, thank you for the confidence!
Good pic, very clean, good angle of vision perhaps you can added some lightsource ( more brigthness on the blast) and more shodows for biger contrast, it’s just an idea, good work
Here’s the final image.
I’d like to thank everyone who gave me comments, encouragements and support.
A really BIG thank you guys, it really kept me going.
Also thank you to CGnetworks for this challenge, I really had a blast doing it!
Tools: PainterIX, Photoshop7, Graphire3
great final, i really like your unique style, some very soft and clean linework and shading coupled with an interesting composition made a wonderful painting. good luck
Conundrum, thanks. Glad you like my ‘style’. You guys keep referring to this, I didn’t even know I had my own style, haha!
MDN67, I forgot to thank you for your advise! Thanks mon ami!
Well, I’ve uploaded the tiff… hope everything arrived savely. I didn’t see any maps or whatever where I could put the file, so I just uploaded it and hope for the best.
