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With the first book of Everything Goes wrapped up and set to be published in about three months, I've been drawing airplanes for the last several weeks, working on the sketches for the second book in the series. So here I give you some of those airplanes. I'm really enjoying this. Airplanes aren't constantly in my quiver, so to speak, the way that cars are. So it's taken some time to learn how I draw airplanes. I mean, I can draw airplanes. But there's a certain accent that needs to be developed with these things that will make it fit with the first book. I describe the vehicles in this series as looking somewhat like toys.
I spend a lot of time drawing airplanes from pictures, learning where do the wings go, how are they proportioned, how does the landing gear attach, etc. And then after a few days of this I put the reference materials away and start drawing from memory. Except for the Wright Brothers' plane and the Spirit of St. Louis here, these are from memory and imagination.