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Matilda 'Matt' Wolfeius 🏳️‍⚧️
@matildawolfeius.bsky.social
Local shapeshifting gremlin || 21 || 🏳️‍⚧️ Transfem
Self-taught traditional-digital artist
Sketches various things, edits video occasionally.

https://ko-fi.com/matildamattwolfeius
MiGlike Mirage
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I have this idea of making a Mirage but MiG-29, but for me that's a job better left for pencil and paper, the 3D modeling coming after I've figured out what the actual design is.

This one is just... plane
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
random plane I modeled in 2 hours while the rest of the class went through blender basics
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Fuck :D
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ok, I think I'm gonna stop rambling now, this all started when, while making this sticker, I realized people who don't know the planesonas might confuse Harrier with Spitfire given they have the exact same camo pattern.

Then again, one is classy and the other has charisma.
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ifrit does have the chasseur cut on her shorts, she is great at air superiority. Revoker doesn't have the cut, and I'm questioning why I'm talking so much about a tiny little triangular gap in some shorts.

Sifting through old art for things to talk about, here's a Jaguar IS.
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
And yes, my thought process does hyperfocus, dead-end, then loop back on itself many times. I'm undiagnosed.

Speaking of looping back, a few things:
I DID put horns on a planesona, the Ifrit, purely because of her namesake.
ALso her bra and chestplate are very angular, given her design.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Then again, some of them wear bits of clothing just for the hell of it. M4K has his parade dress, Harrier and Medusa both wear jackets (one more than the other), Scimitar & Canberra wear goggles. And of course you have all the hats and headgear.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Back to clothing, and how they kinda double up the camo.
I don't always draw them with more than shorts, even when they're dueling, and the coats aren't necessary, it just feels a bit off to me if they're uncovered on 'active operations' (e.g. WarThunder random battles, Nuclear Option matches, etc.)
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
For canards, compare EF2K/Rafale/M4K.
I do realize now that Rafale and M4K's canards are both in-line with the intake, but Rafale's are above the intake, while M4K's are right on the intake.
At the same time these aren't really hard rules or strict guidelines, most of the time I go by feel.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I haven't posted that first image here in full, it's pretty crap, but that was the first appearance of Mirage F1. Being brand new, I had absolutely no idea what symbol to give him (now her), so I just left it blank. The colours were inspired by the flat-blue livery of some MF1s.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
There are times where I just don't know what to put on there - P-63, Spitfire XIVc, and J/S-9 have fairly basic shorts, though J/S-9 has the best of those three imo, the colours just work.

Mirage III and 2K's shorts share the same design just with different symbols. MF1C's has different colour.
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
But what the shorts also do is act as an additional piece of identification, not only of the origin/operating country, but they can also reflect the personality of the planesona. Best result is when I know the plane enough that I can incorporate references or features into the design.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I didn't forget about NASA's AD-1, of course. With one wing swept forward and the other backward, with the above logic I imagine a planesona of the AD-1 would be often depicted waving energetically - One arm up, the other arm down.

For those asking, I'm not interested in drawing an SU-47.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cooked up a little recognition guide. Jet fighters are typically larger, have relatively narrower waists (see 'Area Rule'), pointier snouts, and in this case green eyes due to the HUD colour. Propeller planes are still sleek, but typically blockier in build, and shorter than jets. [cont'd...]
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I have peaked
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I don't normally draw the planes that I don't fly myself, but you can't have a rivalry without rivals.
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Don't end up stranded horrified, with each stone, on the stage
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Now with colour! And a speedpaint!
I think this is the first time I've recorded my current way of colouring paper sketches.
youtu.be/juV0Iwm5ZgE
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
So Nuclear Option has a new helicopter...

This might be the single most versatile vehicle you can use. Dedicated AGMs, AAMs, two turrets, a deployable UGV or the ability to just straight up yoink a base, all in a small nimble package.
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Little pose & consistency practice
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Troubadour
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
More of the Elite Grenadier
Plus a Cuirassier, because cuirassier
#ValorMortis
October 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Keep Driving"
September 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM