Is sketching part of your creative workflow or we've forgotten what it feels to be human?
Depending on the projec's scope, I normally like to explore my ideas on paper before I come up with the best solution.
And no, they're not perfect.
They are rough and messy, my goal is so...
Getting the biplane's rigging and struts to read this clean against a flat color background is harder than it looks, most digital illustrations of mechanical subjects end up cluttered. What almost didn't make the final version, was there a more literal background you cut for that yellow?