Car drawings
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I can see both those pics and the ones you posted earlier.
The car feels a bit 'boxy', but I guess that's obvious. Other than that, it isn't too bad. I wanna see the car again in darker edges
Boxy? I know, sadly as a student I don't get to spend as much time designing as I wish I could
.I think with that LSC1 I messed up the dimensions as well, the wider rear section somehow goes from being 90mm wide to 80mm wide without caving in at any point
Thanks, your feedback is much appreciated, *begins setting targets for future designs*
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I can see both those pics and the ones you posted earlier.
The car feels a bit 'boxy', but I guess that's obvious. Other than that, it isn't too bad. I wanna see the car again in darker edges
Do you seriously think that that car is boxy? Off topic, but this is the most boxy car of all time, and it cannot be beaten, even in it's name:
Nissan Cube, 'nuff said
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Life Step Van. More boxy than Cube.
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AOS-
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It's like you took the profile and back view of a car and created a box with it.
The front nose of the car is actually wider than the back the way you drew it.
What I would suggest doing is to forget the idea or intent of drawing a fancy car for the time being, deconstruct the car into basic shapes, and then illustrate form (i.e. giving it highlights and/or shadows). From your drawing there, JBanton, I'm getting the sense that you haven't got a really good grasp on what the roof of the car should look like. Remember that the roofline isn't flush with the width of the car; the 2 arches lean in towards the center line, so you have to make sure that you show that in your 3/4 view.
The front nose of the car is actually wider than the back the way you drew it.
What I would suggest doing is to forget the idea or intent of drawing a fancy car for the time being, deconstruct the car into basic shapes, and then illustrate form (i.e. giving it highlights and/or shadows). From your drawing there, JBanton, I'm getting the sense that you haven't got a really good grasp on what the roof of the car should look like. Remember that the roofline isn't flush with the width of the car; the 2 arches lean in towards the center line, so you have to make sure that you show that in your 3/4 view.
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Boxy? I know, sadly as a student I don't get to spend as much time designing as I wish I could
I think with that LSC1 I messed up the dimensions as well, the wider rear section somehow goes from being 90mm wide to 80mm wide without caving in at any point
Thanks, your feedback is much appreciated, *begins setting targets for future designs*
The design isn't bad at all, though. But AOS says it all 👍
Well, it isn't too 'boxy'. I'm just used to looking at cars placed at 'dynamic' ranges rather than 90 or 45 views.
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haven't posted here in a while, here's some speed draws in my wife's office at the college:
nothing to write home about but meh
nothing to write home about but meh
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Just finished this R34 today, and my god it looks sexy:
Can't believe I actually drew this.
Not bad at all. I would personally like to see the contours brought out a little more either through sharper use of colours or lines. The coloured pencils kind "smudge" the crispness of the image. I wouldn't suggest using a black ink pen to outline it, but kick up that contrast; make the car look shiny with light reflections instead of soft highlight spots. Also, please refrain from using graphite as your source for gray. It's an easy solution, but it honestly just doesn't cut it. Use a gray coloured pencil and mix in black if the shade needs to be darker.
Hey would you look at that, marker renderings! Now I could be wrong, but I personally think some of your reflections aren't depicted correctly. If we look at your purple ride, the white highlight running along the side of the car shouldn't be "cut off" at the rear wheel arch like that. It's not a sharp edge, and you don't make metal like that. Therefore, the highlight stripe should bend along the contour of the surface change. The highlight running down the hood and windshield I feel are too straight. Those surfaces aren't flat; the windshield isn't flat, so the highlight shouldn't be either. Same goes for the hood., and I'm not making an assumption on the form of the hood either. According to the furthest side of the bonnet, the left quadrant, the bonnet is indeed curved down. So we should be seeing the same with the streak of white there. The doorline is good, the front nose is alright, and I like how you included the interior there. 👍
As for the black car, the perspective is all over the place. The wheels aren't traveling to the same vanishing points as the rear end, windshield and roof. I don't know if it's what you wanted, but the side windows are pretty much standing vertically which I personally found awkward because side windows usually have a curve and are leaning in towards the center of the car.
Lastly, it would have totally been sweet if the images were bigger... around 600 to 800 px is good. 👍
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Thank you very much for the feedback! And I know what you mean by using light reflections instead of soft highlight spots to make the car look shiny, but with colouring pencils its hard to get that same effect. Do you mean something like this (I take no credit for the following drawings by the way):
And just out of interest, what is wrong using graphite as my source of grey?
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I understand why you wouldn't understand my gripe with graphite being used as gray, but once you draw more and see work by other people, you'll begin to understand why. If you must know, it because it makes the drawing look amateur. How? To me, it's not so much the final result; it's actually more because the artist chose not to or was got a little lazy and decided not to use the gray coloured pencil. Thing about graphite is that that leave a shiny finish whereas a coloured pencil won't... or at least not in the same way.
As for the pencils and reflections, the first one sort of shows what I'm getting at. Here's some better examples of my older work that illustrate what I mean:
Notice how I use hard contrasts between the highlight and body? While it's not photo realistic, it conveys a stronger sense of a glossy, polished surface.
As for the pencils and reflections, the first one sort of shows what I'm getting at. Here's some better examples of my older work that illustrate what I mean:
Notice how I use hard contrasts between the highlight and body? While it's not photo realistic, it conveys a stronger sense of a glossy, polished surface.
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Yeah I think I got carried away; as I said earlier maybe overdone it. I'll try a few simple ones tomorrow.
The grey car had a bubbled roof like the RCZ and the front wheel was at an angle (I never draw my cars with the wheels going the same way - it doesn't have the same impact/presence I think). And yeah, the windows are vertical; I'm not sure how you find it awkward but I meant to have the vertical and not leaning in.
Purple car: that was rushed, and I now see what you mean about the rear arch, if i look at any real car I can see it curved up-to or round depending on the angle of light. I'll fix that.
The windscreen does go pretty much straight down with a slight curve, but it's hard to get the curve perfect with the white highlight so it just ended up being rather straight... Half a**ed job if you think about it now.
Thanks for the feedback AOS, I've learnt how to draw and colour/render all by myself so I'm always learning. I have no one to help me or advise me (anyone I show just thinks they're awesome - so it's good to really know how to really make them awesome!) 👍
I will try and go back to basics, they were rushed as I done them late at night and spent an hour each on them, so I wasn't really thinking of what's what.
As for the picture resolution itself I have no idea what size it is? I uploaded from my phone - i'll try via laptop next time.
The grey car had a bubbled roof like the RCZ and the front wheel was at an angle (I never draw my cars with the wheels going the same way - it doesn't have the same impact/presence I think). And yeah, the windows are vertical; I'm not sure how you find it awkward but I meant to have the vertical and not leaning in.
Purple car: that was rushed, and I now see what you mean about the rear arch, if i look at any real car I can see it curved up-to or round depending on the angle of light. I'll fix that.
The windscreen does go pretty much straight down with a slight curve, but it's hard to get the curve perfect with the white highlight so it just ended up being rather straight... Half a**ed job if you think about it now.
Thanks for the feedback AOS, I've learnt how to draw and colour/render all by myself so I'm always learning. I have no one to help me or advise me (anyone I show just thinks they're awesome - so it's good to really know how to really make them awesome!) 👍
I will try and go back to basics, they were rushed as I done them late at night and spent an hour each on them, so I wasn't really thinking of what's what.
As for the picture resolution itself I have no idea what size it is? I uploaded from my phone - i'll try via laptop next time.
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Not a problem; No one really taught me how to draw a whole lot better either. I've only picked up about 3 or 4 things from my drawing instructors in school in my 3 years at Uni; everything else I learned or learned through mimicking others. You could argue that that's not learning, but I look at and try to understand how reflection works by looking at objects in real life; why the reflection of the ground bends according to the bend in the surface and why the reflection of the sun is on several surfaces of a car. To understand how an image reflection should work, I imagine every surface is as reflective as a mirror. Because I know that light traveling from a single spot on the ground to the reflective surface bounces off into my eye generating that image, I deconstruct every curved surface into numerous planes and visually generate a depiction of what the reflection would look like in each of those little panes sloped and angled all differently. Afterwards, I would piece everything together into what it would probably look like when it's a surface that has a gradual change of angle.
Don't have an exact number, but it's hella small... I'd say smaller than 500px.What you said
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Been a while since iv'e visited this thread, it's great to see some more great car pics again, loving the highly detailed wheel pic AOS, stuff on black background pretty much always looks pretty spectacular, i see it as a very subtractive way of working and probably a bit easier (and quicker) to do than starting out with a sheet of white.
aadil, great pics man, did you use marker, or were they done on tablet?, purple car has a hint of Pininfarina Ethos concept about it for me, also like the silver 1, i see where you're coming from with the influence of the RCZ, but i also see hints of Audi Avus concept and maybe Jaguar c-x75 for some reason, great work.
PS, nice theory about light source/reflection etc AOS, i don't fully understand what you're describing (but am trying), i'll have to do some experimental quick pics myself with some focus on shiny surfaces and reflections.
aadil, great pics man, did you use marker, or were they done on tablet?, purple car has a hint of Pininfarina Ethos concept about it for me, also like the silver 1, i see where you're coming from with the influence of the RCZ, but i also see hints of Audi Avus concept and maybe Jaguar c-x75 for some reason, great work.
PS, nice theory about light source/reflection etc AOS, i don't fully understand what you're describing (but am trying), i'll have to do some experimental quick pics myself with some focus on shiny surfaces and reflections.
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Well at least using the colouring pencils that I use right now, they just don't have that delicate touch that graphite pencils have. Graphite pencils are easier to shade with because it doesn't require too much effort for the shading to actually begin. Using my colouring pencils, then I have to press considerably harder for the colour to show up, but it might just be me.
And I have edited the previous post and changed the images to URL links to save us all a lot of scrolling 👍 .
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You're either using crappy coloured pencils or you're not getting the pigment into the little ridges and pores of the paper, I'm betting on the former. Good colouring pencils are soft and scraping the material off the pencil and onto the page is much easier since it's more waxier than something like Laurentian.
Give Prismacolor's colour pencils a try. You can buy them individually and even try them out at an art store before you buy.
