Artist lights up the night sky by using a drone to draw elaborate shapes

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An artist has created elaborate symbols with his drone to draw them in under fifteen minutes using the expanse of the Colorado sky as his canvas.

Giant light paintings including Pokemon characters Pikachu and Ellie, a perfect outline of a giant cube, the famous Batman symbol and the Broadway show Hamilton's logo lit up the night sky. 

Artist and photographer Russell Klimas uses a Lumecube, a powerful LED light, which he attaches to his drone to create bright, white streaks in the sky depicting the images.

He also uses Google Earth and a navigation app called Litchi to create detailed flight plans for making waypoints  to make the intricate paintings at the clearest point in the sky. 

Time lapse footage also shows him making the symbols in the sky in real time.  

'A few months ago I was inspired to try and see what shapes I could create while attaching a Lumecube to my drone,' he said. 

'I’d seen people like Phil Fisher do shapes in the sky manually and was extremely impressed but didn’t have the time to learn how to fly shapes manually.'

'So instead I scoured the net on drone apps that could make things like this possible, and this was my discovery.'

He bought the Littchi program, an app which allows you to fly your drone and take photos, for $10 (£8) from the app store, available on Android or Apple.