Tooned/Vectored Cars + Stuff
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GTJ,
That's the main thing that is still bothering about the body. I guess the feel for the shading comes over time, and I just don't seem to quite have it.
I am pretty happy overall as this project actually looks like it might get finished. I started a tooned car once before and just got stumped about half-way through. Doing better this time.
That's the main thing that is still bothering about the body. I guess the feel for the shading comes over time, and I just don't seem to quite have it.
I am pretty happy overall as this project actually looks like it might get finished. I started a tooned car once before and just got stumped about half-way through. Doing better this time.
zoxxy
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The original image had a ****load of trees and stuff reflected in the paintjob. 
http://www.applepics.com/6/userfiles/41bf2935064dd.jpg
Is it worth changing to an another car ?
http://www.applepics.com/6/userfiles/41bf2935064dd.jpg
Is it worth changing to an another car ?
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- Worcester, MA
- skip0110
I think you can work around those reflections 
They're not that bad, you can still see the contours of the car. It looks good, btw. I hope you put some more detail in the taillight though 
Here is my current WIP:
Original:
I gave up on duplicating that MysiChrome color...if anyone is able to do a car in that color I would be very impressed
And the shadowing/highlights is far from done...only the windows and headlights I'm calling complete....any comments?
They're not that bad, you can still see the contours of the car. It looks good, btw. I hope you put some more detail in the taillight though Here is my current WIP:
Original:
I gave up on duplicating that MysiChrome color...if anyone is able to do a car in that color I would be very impressed
And the shadowing/highlights is far from done...only the windows and headlights I'm calling complete....any comments?
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@Duke: Nice. Looking really good. I can see a lot of effort has been spent on it. Only one minor thing shows, the shadow has a thin white line around the black outline of the car. Once you've coloured the car, it might be nice to put the shadow layer at the bottom of the stack and make shade underneath the colour layer around where the shadow is the get rid of the white line. Sorry if that makes no sense, it's hard to describe exactly what i mean. Great job though 👍
@ Chaos: Looking good. It's all a tad bright and aside from the headlamps and the front wheel the pic is lacking in interesting details. Also the bonnet sponsor stickers are a little messy. I probably would've left them off, or actually got hold of the logos off google's image search and copied them on top of the coloured layer.
@ Chaos: Looking good. It's all a tad bright and aside from the headlamps and the front wheel the pic is lacking in interesting details. Also the bonnet sponsor stickers are a little messy. I probably would've left them off, or actually got hold of the logos off google's image search and copied them on top of the coloured layer.
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Yeah, i was thiking of taking those off. I actually can take them off in a second. 👍
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- GTP_DelphicR
- Esoterik1
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heres my wip
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- skip0110
stumpydino - I love classic cars, can't wait till this one is all shaded 👍
But don't listen to me, I'm no expert.
Thankszoxxy
I don't have the patience to do the IR/Visua style--doing all those little areas has got to take a bloody long time. The way I see those taillights is thre layers. There is a base color, there are slightly darker regions (with blurry borders), and there is a very faintly defined white reflection over the whole thing.zoxxyOK, but how ?Should I make those super detialed IR/visua lights, or the GIMP look ? Help would be appriciated. I'm the new Keram =)
But don't listen to me, I'm no expert.
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- GTP_Duke
CRAP!
I opened my document today and all that's there is one tiny little path down in the corner of the foglight! I've got all the traced layers, but ALL the paths are gone!
What the hell happened?! That's about 6 hours of work gone! Where?!
I opened my document today and all that's there is one tiny little path down in the corner of the foglight! I've got all the traced layers, but ALL the paths are gone!
What the hell happened?! That's about 6 hours of work gone! Where?!
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- skip0110
Uhh...well I have no idea where your paths have gone...but you are not entirely up the creek without a paddle. (Before you do anything I suggest, save a backup copy! Maybe two.)
If you have the traced lines but not the layers, you can use the magic wand tool to select regions to color. I don't really use the paths for drawing the lines extensively in coloring anyway.
Just merge the lines that form the border of the car's primary colored regions into a single layer, and use the magic wand with 'select transparent areas' on and the highest sensitivity. It won't pickup very narrow areas between the lines, but you can touch that up with a the pen tool and a very thin brush.
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot, you have to choose Select->Grow Selecetion by 1 or 2 pixels after using the magic wand.
If you have the traced lines but not the layers, you can use the magic wand tool to select regions to color. I don't really use the paths for drawing the lines extensively in coloring anyway.
Just merge the lines that form the border of the car's primary colored regions into a single layer, and use the magic wand with 'select transparent areas' on and the highest sensitivity. It won't pickup very narrow areas between the lines, but you can touch that up with a the pen tool and a very thin brush.
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot, you have to choose Select->Grow Selecetion by 1 or 2 pixels after using the magic wand.
zoxxy
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BUt how should I do that w/o the clear lights? This car is seriously 80'sskip0110stumpydino - I love classic cars, can't wait till this one is all shaded 👍
Thanks
I don't have the patience to do the IR/Visua style--doing all those little areas has got to take a bloody long time. The way I see those taillights is thre layers. There is a base color, there are slightly darker regions (with blurry borders), and there is a very faintly defined white reflection over the whole thing.
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- GTP_Duke
I don't know how I would have deleted the path(s). I certainly didn't do it on purpose... and for whatever reason, my backup copy is the same way. Is there some command that would throw away the existing path and start a new one that I could have accidently invoked? The only path in my document was the last line I had drawn before quitting yesterday.skip0110
I have each brush size saved on separate bitmap layers, but I really wanted to be able to experiment with other versions of this drawing so I wanted to save the paths and just turn them off. I was able to bring in the profile and large detail path from a copy 2 versions ago, but all that fine detail work around the grille, door handles, etc. is flat GONE.
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- skip0110
Sorry duke, I don't use photoshop so I can't really give you too much help on this one. I did a quick google and it turned up nothing, so I'll leave it to donbenni or another photoshop expert.
zoxxy - I dont't kow how you want to adress the lights--maybe overlay 1px vertical lines of a slightly lighter tone over the whole light? I think photoshop has a pattern like that. Then you could put in the darker areas very faintly.
zoxxy - I dont't kow how you want to adress the lights--maybe overlay 1px vertical lines of a slightly lighter tone over the whole light? I think photoshop has a pattern like that. Then you could put in the darker areas very faintly.
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@ Duke: I thought that Photoshop only ever stored the last path drawn anyway. But whatever way it does things, unless you're planning on resizing the picture (i.e. if you want to make use of the paths in a vector sense) then you won't need them. I do all of my line work on one layer and delete each path after i've 'stroked' it. The paths are of no use to me after they've been 'stroked'. I've just checked it out with PS and found that after drawing two paths and not deleting in between, it still only shows the last path in the paths window. Hope that helps in the slightest. I know i'm not really saying how to get them back, but in summary, in my opinion you don't really need the paths and i've never come across a point where i've thought "I could really do with the path of that line right now".
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zoxxyBUt how should I do that w/o the clear lights? This car is seriously 80's
Hey watch your mouth... I own that car, and the styling is one of the reasons I bought it... I actually prefer the coupe over the hatch...
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- GTP_Duke
Well, I figured out what I did wrong. If you use the Pen tool with the existing path hidden, it deletes the old path and starts a new one. If it's not hidden, it just adds to the existing path, creating subpaths within the main path.
Lesson learned.
This being my first render, I wanted to save all the paths so I could restroke them at will, to experiment with line weights or in case I screwed up a stroke later. Also, to allow me to cleanly resize the image. Oh, well. Thanks for the advice, guys!
Here's this lunch hour's work. The wheel doesn't look so hot, but it's actually dead on the original image. I guess I'm going to have to massage it a little.
Lesson learned.
This being my first render, I wanted to save all the paths so I could restroke them at will, to experiment with line weights or in case I screwed up a stroke later. Also, to allow me to cleanly resize the image. Oh, well. Thanks for the advice, guys!
Here's this lunch hour's work. The wheel doesn't look so hot, but it's actually dead on the original image. I guess I'm going to have to massage it a little.
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