The work stands on its own here, except for one proviso:
Need to say upfront that the drawing of my opponent here doesn’t look much like the real person. This is intentional, to protect the identity of Mr. Mark Kalar of St. Anthony, MN. Oh, whoops.
Another drawing of a photo of a sculpture.
The X-2 suffers a landing mishap… which is apparently investigated by a ’76 British punk band.
A drawing of the Bell X-1, the first plane to break the sound barrier*. First flight in 1946. Design inspired by a rifle bullet because that was the only thing anyone could think of in 1945 that was supersonic.
*a German pilot claimed to have broken the sound barrier while diving in a Me-262 in 1945, but nobody really takes the claim seriously.
I’ll be drawing a lot of planes in the near future, as a warmup for the next biggish project.
A drawing of a photograph of a sculpture.