Believe it or not, this took me a long time. Not to draw, but to simplify and choose colors. I started out with lots of detail like rivets. I knew that would happen but I drew extra anyway for choice. Id rather spend the extra time just in case it looks good like that. If you do vector long enough, you should be able to decipher all your lines and picture them filled with color as your drawing them. I love a huge mess; its like a puzzle. I can see it because I drew it. If I looked at paths from a different artist's file, Id be lost. Im talking about pre Pathfinder clean up. If you want everything flush, it has to be mess in the path drawing stage.
That's me using my Mac's Photo Booth for ref... hello!