АЧС-1 in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

It started as a small student project to learn Adobe Illustrator back in 2014. Since I was passionate about aviation, precise instruments, and similar things, I wanted to create a detailed illustration of an aircraft onboard clock, the АЧС-1. I used photos from the internet as references. The result was pretty good, but then the project was forgotten. Years later, I remembered it and decided to perfect it. I transferred the vector layers to Adobe Photoshop, reworking some of them beforehand: I redrew the numbers on the dial, chose a more accurate font, and refined the shapes and proportions of the details. In Photoshop, I created realistic textures for all the elements by layering, added volume and shadow effects, and created light reflections on the surface. I only downloaded two textures from the internet: fingerprints that you can see on the glass and a painted surface texture for the background. Using brushes, I added paint defects, texture irregularities, and light reflections. I also created three lighting conditions: daylight, nighttime lighting with red light, and phosphorus glow in complete darkness. Since each hand, knob, and glass exists on separate layers in Photoshop, I eventually planned to collaborate with developers to create a mobile clock app with a stopwatch for mobile devices, but that’s currently on hold.