Billy Bishop - WWI Ace Pilot Framed Print

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Billy Bishop glances over his shoulder at the plumenting German plane he has just shot down while an approaching German pilot opens fire from above.

William Avery Bishop is credited with 72 victories in the air and was a Victoria Cross recipient of the First World War. He is considered Canada's top pilot of WWI.

In this illustration I have Bishop flying the French built Nieuport 17 with the top mounted Lewis machine gun. The Royal Flying Corps found the fuselage mounted Vickers guns to be unreliable and often had them omitted. The Vickers machine gun was synchronised to fire through the propeller.

I created this illustration on my computer using a Wacom Intuos tablet and painting apps ArtRage & Corel Painter with color correction using Photoshop.

Ken has been interested in art since an early age (born in mid 1950s) and one of the first things he drew before the age of five was images of cars. Automobiles, mostly the American classics and hot rods are Ken's passion. In 1983 he restored a 1960 Corvette which he still owns and drives in the summer. Ken has been employed in the IT industry since the 1980s where he became exposed to digital art. He is a self taught digital photographer and digital artist using tools like Photoshop, Lightroom, Corel Painter and Artrage as well as 3D modeling and rendering apps like Hexagon, Vue Complete, 3DCoat, DAZ Studio, Groboto3D, Silo3D & 3D Coat. In some of Ken's digital illustrations he will combine hand drawings with digital photo elements...

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