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Nice stuff. Give me a PM if you'd like some pointers on where to go with your design ideas. I can give you a few pointers, push you in the right direction.
keep drawing.
keep drawing.
Car drawings
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too many pages to go through, so I looked at the last one. looks like that caricature guy's style over there a freind of mine got a car-icature from as a birthday prezzie *chuckles* stuffed himself in a Cinq...while I'd be stuffed in a Punto!
anyhoo...at least you can do that sort of thing. I have an Idea of updating america's old "studebaker" labels as if it had survived into the 21st century...and I can't draw the bloody cars. and I draw for a LIVING! (I'm a mechanical draftsman to/by trade)
anyhoo...at least you can do that sort of thing. I have an Idea of updating america's old "studebaker" labels as if it had survived into the 21st century...and I can't draw the bloody cars. and I draw for a LIVING! (I'm a mechanical draftsman to/by trade)
TVR&Ferrari_fan, I was just looking through your work here and I have to say full marks for your perseverance. It does however appear to me that you have more of a gift for portraits than designing cars but just as a suggestion I think that if you spent some time tracing outlines of actual cars from photographs and maybe try guessing where certain lines go before you trace them, you will get closer each time and learn the way perspective affects body parts, wheels etc. This is an example- I took this pic off the internet and traced it this afternoon (thanks to www.theratpac.com for the pic)
it still surprises me where some of the lines go when youre tracing! Afterwards but not as importantly in your case you can shade using the original pic as a guide to lighting etc, like this my version:
Or this - my fifteen year old daughters version, not finished due to bedtime lol:
It is not cheating to trace or copy and it gives you a fantastic grounding for putting your own design ideas down on paper I look forward to seeing a trace from you here and if you do as many traces as you have done drawings to put on here, you will improve at least 100% in weeks. Dont get me wrong I would hate to knock your enthusiasm.
it still surprises me where some of the lines go when youre tracing! Afterwards but not as importantly in your case you can shade using the original pic as a guide to lighting etc, like this my version:
Or this - my fifteen year old daughters version, not finished due to bedtime lol:
It is not cheating to trace or copy and it gives you a fantastic grounding for putting your own design ideas down on paper I look forward to seeing a trace from you here and if you do as many traces as you have done drawings to put on here, you will improve at least 100% in weeks. Dont get me wrong I would hate to knock your enthusiasm.
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I hate tracing I will never trace because its less hard work and I think it is cheating.
Plus I know I can do better at cars I am trying to get some tools, to like make the wheels better but I don't know what the tool that can do wheels at different angles.
Plus I know I can do better at cars I am trying to get some tools, to like make the wheels better but I don't know what the tool that can do wheels at different angles.
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You need to work on your perspective. There is at least one massive perspective flaw in every single one of your images. Tracing a simple outline completely removes those errors.
And you may say that your perspective errors are your style, but it just looks bad. Yeah, you can shorten a car or change its shape to look good/artsy/cool, but when the headlight closest to the "camera" is smaller than the one further from it, it just looks wrong, no matter how "artsy" it is.
As things get further away from the viewpoint of the image, they get smaller. Keep that in mind, I'm surprised my highschool education taught me more about that than your college one.
And you may say that your perspective errors are your style, but it just looks bad. Yeah, you can shorten a car or change its shape to look good/artsy/cool, but when the headlight closest to the "camera" is smaller than the one further from it, it just looks wrong, no matter how "artsy" it is.
As things get further away from the viewpoint of the image, they get smaller. Keep that in mind, I'm surprised my highschool education taught me more about that than your college one.
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You should draw something out of Doom III.Anyway very good pictures. For 1 million pounds I couldn't draw as near as good as any of your pictures. I'm totaly useless. Keep up the good work. 👍
In fact I saw a GT3 RS the other day.
why not strive to make an awesome design and blend it with photorealism. With just a design that has no depth and tone to it, the audience can only see the empty lines, but with a little extra added time in shading or getting the lighting right, or maybe some reflections, it gives the design more meaning and depth, also a sure way to win a competition you would think.
TVR Ferrari guy, you need to make the fronts of the cars more proportional to the rest of the car, they are kinda short, on most of the pics, and lighten up on the shading, just use it to emphasize certain parts of the car, deep lines, creases, in the wheels and interior, not the whole car, i hope this can help a bit. Also some good progress.
It'd be nice of someone to tell how to post some pics i have scanned, thanks in advance.
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Scan. Make it smaller in dimensions and size (under 100kb). Save it on you hard drive. Click Post Reply. Click Manage Attachments. Click Browse. Select the file you want to share. Click Upload. Close Box. Click Post. Enjoy.
Blending photorealism with designing is a necessary step, you're right. To achieve that step you have to have a solid design that you know you are going to keep. Why work 5 or 6 hours on a nice finish that wraps around a crummy design? Get a good design down on loose paper in 5 minutes. Work out what you want to keep and what you want to toss. Take out the marker paper and tools and in less than half an hour you have some sketched renderings of what your design should look like. If you really feel comfortable and strong with what you have on paper, take out the pencils and smudgers and start drawing.
This took from start to finish about an hour. Everything included. Sketchy feel, nothing really concrete, but still not a line drawing. Although the drawing is rather old, there are still the necessary components in the properties of light. Sure, some things are off, but those sorts of bugs get worked out through practicing.
Blending photorealism with designing is a necessary step, you're right. To achieve that step you have to have a solid design that you know you are going to keep. Why work 5 or 6 hours on a nice finish that wraps around a crummy design? Get a good design down on loose paper in 5 minutes. Work out what you want to keep and what you want to toss. Take out the marker paper and tools and in less than half an hour you have some sketched renderings of what your design should look like. If you really feel comfortable and strong with what you have on paper, take out the pencils and smudgers and start drawing.
This took from start to finish about an hour. Everything included. Sketchy feel, nothing really concrete, but still not a line drawing. Although the drawing is rather old, there are still the necessary components in the properties of light. Sure, some things are off, but those sorts of bugs get worked out through practicing.
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I've got lots of cars I've drawn throughout the years, I'm sure you guys will like my pics.
I might be able to post them today, I don't have a scanner, but my mom does, so I have to use hers.
I might be able to post them today, I don't have a scanner, but my mom does, so I have to use hers.
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Some great talent in this thread. Nice work guys 👍
my first submission. It's not suppose to be anything in particular, but it turned out to look like a Jag
my first submission. It's not suppose to be anything in particular, but it turned out to look like a Jag
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Making the car longer, in almost any case will look better than a short squished car. In general the proportions are great, but just has to be longer at the nose (starting at the headlights). Along the far hood line, what is the rest or that blur? Erased pencil? Maybe clean that up or use a harder pencil when getting the first ideas down. I'd also ease up on the outer line. It sort of looks like a cutout now, because the outline is the darkest line. Some other comments, maybe look into shading the design. It would bring out the surface variations of the car tremendously. Even if you're drawing a bad design or something you feel you are wasting your time on, you should still complete it, you'll learn a lot from the amount of pencil you put down. Also if you're drawing a simple line drawing (like the sort of Supra), even if you're not happy with it, still fill in the wheel wells, openings and undershadow. It'll look a lot more car-like...
Don't know if this is of interest to you guys, but here's some design tips from pros...
http://www.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/index.php
http://www.cardesignnews.com/studio/tutorials/index.php
