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Third of my "Famous Faces" series from Illustration. The subject of this portrait is Jacqueline Cochran. I'm not sure she's quite as well-known as the other two figures I chose, but it turns out she is the first woman to break the sound barrier. Deciding that was pretty neat, I chose her as my third subject.

The color scheme of this image is Split Complementary. I wanted to keep the red as sort of a constant between the three portraits, so the other two colors I chose were blue-green and yellow-green. I think it turned out pretty well. I'm very happy with the aircraft in this image, and found it quite fun drawing an F-86 Sabrejet (the plane Jacqueline flew when she broke the sound barrier.) It's a very beautiful, elegant aircraft, and is surprisingly simple to draw, as well. I had a lot of fun with it!

For the clouds, I went with a more streaky approach to give a little more of a sense of speed, and also to avoid all 3 skies looking the same. I think they turned out pretty neat, though I do still miss the big fluffy giants, as well.

Like the others, the media is a marker underlay on the plane and the figure, and watercolor for everything else. The only ink lines are the names of the figures.

Description
Third of my "Famous Faces" series from Illustration. The subject of this portrait is Jacqueline Cochran. I'm not sure she's quite as well-known as the other two figures I chose, but it turns out she is the first woman to break the sound barrier. Deciding that was pretty neat, I chose her as my third subject.

The color scheme of this image is Split Complementary. I wanted to keep the red as sort of a constant between the three portraits, so the other two colors I chose were blue-green and yellow-green. I think it turned out pretty well. I'm very happy with the aircraft in this image, and found it quite fun drawing an F-86 Sabrejet (the plane Jacqueline flew when she broke the sound barrier.) It's a very beautiful, elegant aircraft, and is surprisingly simple to draw, as well. I had a lot of fun with it!

For the clouds, I went with a more streaky approach to give a little more of a sense of speed, and also to avoid all 3 skies looking the same. I think they turned out pretty neat, though I do still miss the big fluffy giants, as well.

Like the others, the media is a marker underlay on the plane and the figure, and watercolor for everything else. The only ink lines are the names of the figures.