As an engineer I find CorelDRAW far more useful (and usable?) than Photoshop and Illustrator sometimes. I do use Photoshop for quite a bit of work. However, Co

As an engineer I find CorelDRAW far more useful (and usable?) than Photoshop and Illustrator sometimes. I do use Photoshop for quite a bit of work. However, CorelDRAW makes some things that require jumping through hoops in Photoshop really easy. It's almost like a melding of a technical drafting and an artist's illustration tool. It can, for example, ingest AutoCAD geometry and use it for further illustration. Since I've been using AutoCAD for a long, long time this aspect of it comes with no effort. In the case of the OP's example, I'd probably find a 2D or 3D model of a helicopter for either ACAD or SolidWorks; load into the appropriate tool; edit, stylize, simplify; export as a flat 2D DXF and then import into CorelDRAW. From there you can manipulate further, stroke, fill, shade, etc. Do it all in layers and then output whatever it is you might need. Maybe this can be done in Photoshop, I don't know. It seems that I am always Googling for how to do the simplest things in PS. Yes, of course, I don't use it enough. That said, things like having to jump through hoops to draw a stroked circumference drives me up a wall sometimes. In a program like CorelDRAW it's just a matter of drawing a circle without fill, which makes far more sense to me than having to draw a path and then stroking it. I've done some pretty interesting graphics in CorelDRAW for such projects as photorealistic renderings of product models that are not only interesting graphically but also dimensionally accurate because of the link to the underlying CAD data. For a lot of the work I do on the web and iOS apps Photoshop can be simpler to wrestle with.