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I like "rims", but I also like "wheels"..hmm...but which is better?

There's only one way to find out... :lol:

On-Topic: I think the paint schemes and the original car is the only thing in common with AOS's Car-toon. I don't think he would be drawing a Dakar Rally car. :P
 
Sorry for going off topic, but to end this argument about rims and wheels, the thing as a whole is called a 'wheel' when it's assembled together. The metal hub is called a rim and the round black wheel is called a 'tyre'. In the car drawing that AOS was talking about, it's a wheel since there's only one part to the wheel. If there was two parts, the inner part would be the rim and the outer part would be the tyre or you can call the whole thing a wheel as I mentioned before.
 
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Sorry for going off topic, but to end this argument about rims and wheels,the thing as a whole is called a 'wheel' when it's assembled together. The metal hub is called a rim and the round black wheel is called a 'tyre'.
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It will NEVER end. :lol:

You just called the tire a wheel? What on...

But yeah, I agree with you - the metal is the rim. With the tire and rim on; I call it a wheel.
 
Why does that matter, i said rim, everyone understood... are we all grammar teachers now? Bloody hell.

Is this a scientific essay or what? Move on...
 
My design for a Toyota coupe, the ft-hsc.
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Hybrid 4-cylinder engine with 235bhp and 317lb ft of torque.

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The Toyota ff-86.
An entry level ff Toyota coupe, 150bhp from a 1.6 litre turbo, a limited slip diff. And an aluminium chassis, 6spd manual or 6spd auto.

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Toyota Slipstream racer.
300bhp from a 1.6 turbo engine going through the rear wheels, active aero and a 537kg weight limit.

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Toyota CrossSport concept.
A sport crossover with 4 seats, front or 4wd, manual or auto, a 1.6 turbo diesel or 1.8 supercharged petrol. The diesel has 130bhp and 219lb ft or torque, the petrol has 217bhp and 259lb ft.
 
AOS.

That snippet of the Fiesta looks great 👍, it's a shame you lost motivation to finish the Firebird though, but i know what it's like... almost threw in the towel on mine about 3 times, and still haven't finished :lol:
As for joining in on the Fiesta Car-Toon challenge, i'm gonna have to give it a miss, but look forward to see what you guys come up with.


I know people must get sick of me posting unfinished pics, but hopefully this should be the last unfinished pic of the Firebird, there's still plenty to do but it will have to wait a while as i'm going to be away for a week.

The thing's taking ages to finish (many, many hours invested) and is quite over-worked (can't help myself :D), but i'm enjoying it and i'm quite pleased with what iv'e achieved so-far considering it's my first ever proper Car-Toon-ish pic.








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Cano.

I've still got to make an adjustment on the wing above the far-side light (so it echoes the other wing/fender), but hopefully the shaker is looking better than it did before, thanks for the helpful advice. 👍
 
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If you use the IMG tags, you can post it here instead of linking us.

That said, I have no comment on this.
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Thanks for that AOS! I can't normally get the img tags to work... :grumpy:

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At 1ness, that looks awesome! Really good! Looks like you've spent hours on that thing, it's really epic! :D 👍 👍

BTW one question I was asking myself:

Did you draw the Phoenix/bird on the bonnet/hood of the car? Or did you photoshop it in, because it looks so good (as does the car).
 
Thanks DarkAvenger 👍

Thanks aadil 👍, i have spent many hours on it (too many :lol:), it's just 1 of those things where i lost track of time TBH, as for the Phoenix.. no chopping involved (have never chopped before), TBH though, the Phoenix could have been better, as i kind of ruined it by using the perspective and distort tools to try and get it to flow with the shaker and centre ridge combo... the near side wings are far too thin compared to the far side. Really glad you like it though, hopefully it will look even better once finished.

Cheers again guys.
 
Personally, I'd rather just draw decals on by hand because the warping tool is a PITA to work with.

An update to my Fiesta: The main colour fills are done, decals are done. Now I just started adding forms. It looks pretty cool so far, but no WIP for you guys. Too bad.

I like that Firebird, At1, some bits anyway... the parts you spent more time on really show. I like how you went for some rendering, as some of the forms come off really convincing, such as the cast shadow from the front nose. It would have been nice if you kept with the same illustrative style throughout the entire car. The chrome rendering on the wheels are nice, but the excess on the whites made it appear of an entirely different style than the rest of the car. However, there's the slab of highlight that stretches along the length of the car as well as the roof that just appears boring and flat. I think if you made that highlight more white in certain places, it would have really popped out. The highlight on the tires are messy too. I know it's unfinished work, but it would have been really nice if they were fixed up just a bit; not that it needed to be entirely complete, but just enough that it looks decent.
 
At 1ness
I know people must get sick of me posting unfinished pics, but hopefully this should be the last unfinished pic of the Firebird, there's still plenty to do but it will have to wait a while as i'm going to be away for a week.

The thing's taking ages to finish (many, many hours invested) and is quite over-worked (can't help myself :D), but i'm enjoying it and i'm quite pleased with what iv'e achieved so-far considering it's my first ever proper Car-Toon-ish pic.



P.S,

Cano.

I've still got to make an adjustment on the wing above the far-side light (so it echoes the other wing/fender), but hopefully the shaker is looking better than it did before, thanks for the helpful advice. 👍
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FHVUDTXCJKYAGDF awesome. I really like the wheels,they truly look like 200S's.When you finish off the paintjob the thing will look awesome. Really looking forward to it 👍 and yes the Shaker looks way, way better. Give it drag radials!
 
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Personally, I'd rather just draw decals on by hand because the warping tool is a PITA to work with.

An update to my Fiesta: The main colour fills are done, decals are done. Now I just started adding forms. It looks pretty cool so far, but no WIP for you guys. Too bad.

I like that Firebird, At1, some bits anyway... the parts you spent more time on really show. I like how you went for some rendering, as some of the forms come off really convincing, such as the cast shadow from the front nose. It would have been nice if you kept with the same illustrative style throughout the entire car. The chrome rendering on the wheels are nice, but the excess on the whites made it appear of an entirely different style than the rest of the car. However, there's the slab of highlight that stretches along the length of the car as well as the roof that just appears boring and flat. I think if you made that highlight more white in certain places, it would have really popped out. The highlight on the tires are messy too. I know it's unfinished work, but it would have been really nice if they were fixed up just a bit; not that it needed to be entirely complete, but just enough that it looks decent.
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Modest much?
 
Cheers Boffin, much appreciated 👍.

Cheers Cano 👍, to be honest i'm unsure how to finish the paintjob (where i should be putting the highlights etc), it definitely is missing something (parts look a bit flat, like AOS pointed out), i'll try and improve it if i can.
I'm really glad i took some of your advice and valuable guidance (regards headlight/shaker etc), without them tips, it wouldn't look as nice as i think it does now (though i know there's still plenty room for improvement), oh, and thanks for the suggestion of the drag radials, will definitely try and do some (i may make the wheels a bit smaller to compensate for the side walls).

Cheers AOS 👍. Again like i said to Cano, i appreciate the valuable guidance and advice/tips.
With regards to mixing illustrative styles, i hear what you're saying.. it's not intentional, it's just that i don't know how to differentiate styles from one-another, or really know anything about different styles in general (it's definitely a skill i need to learn), as for the wheels.. i'm really glad i didn't merge the layers, as it did cross my mind that the wheels weren't quite right, (i'll maybe add a hint of blue), also i agree about the tyres, they definitely need work.. that layer was quite old from a previous mock-up.
With regards to the Phoenix, it is actually hand drawn (albeit, a second more detailed drawing than the one i used in a previous pic), your'e right though... the manipulation tools are a PITA, what happened was:, the Phoenix was one of the 1st things i did on the check list (as i knew it would be quite difficult), and it wasn't until it came to do other stuff, that i realised it wasn't sitting right, hence the dreaded distort/perspective tool usage... caused me to make a right mess of it, (i should have just really started from fresh.. again :lol:).


Anyway, i haven't even finished the Firebird yet, but i'm already thinking of doing another Car-Toon (finding it tough but quite enjoyable and am getting a taste for it), i'm thinking of maybe doing either a Custom Chevy van (like the Hot Wheels model) or..... a Bosozoku style car (should be easier as they have exaggerated features already).. was thinking my own take of a Boso'd Datsun 240Z, or maybe even a Corolla or RX3, don't know yet.

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Sorry for the wall of text everyone. :guilty:

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Also DarkAvenger, just noticed the pic of your Mamba design, it reminds me a bit of the Viper in many respects.. i'm not really keen on the Viper but i think the Viper-esque features works well on a smaller scale coupe like your design, great line work, would be good to see it with some added colour too. 👍
 
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Also DarkAvenger, just noticed the pic of your Mamba design, it reminds me a bit of the Viper in many respects.. i'm not really keen on the Viper but i think the Viper-esque features works well on a smaller scale coupe like your design, great line work, would be good to see it with some added colour too. 👍
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Oh, thanks... i will add some color too, will work on it, will aslo ask you guys some advices, since i never really worked on a car in digital way before... i think i know the basics in theory, but you know... :lol:

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I am going to the right direction or? Help me guise! :lol:
 
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I would lower the opacity of the line work because they make the drawing appear really flat.

That burn you did on the side is also conveying the incorrect form. I understand what you tried to do, but when you apply the burn like that, in conjunction to the already flat-appearing indentation in the body, the car appears even more flat.

The sketch itself was already really really flat to begin with. And I just cannot visualize a 3-dimensional form without struggling. To make your life a lot easier, especially because you're going digital for the first time, I would do another sketch. This time however, exaggerate some perspective so it'll make it a lot easier for you to visualize its form.
 
That's looking good DarkAvenger 👍, i agree with AOS about lowering the line work layers opacity, but if it's helping you with defining colour/highlights etc, just keep it present until you're nearing the end of the pic.

As for the colouring/highlights, they look pretty good to me, though i would maybe add a bit more highlight to the lower edge of the door sill (should look good especially in contrast to the darkened sill below it), also it would look good if the upper part of the indented cowl of the near side fog-light would be darkened a bit too (hope that makes sense).
Myself, i have no problem with visualising the 3D form of your pic.. having said that, my standards aren't as professional as what AOS's are, so he most probably has a point, i also agree about maybe doing another sketch, but not until this present one is finished.
1 more handy tip is to maybe flip the image from time to time (same principal as the mirror trick), if you're using photoshop, just go into image in the top tool bar and go to rotate image.. and then to rotate horizontal, should help with perspectives etc.
If this is your first digital pic, i think it's a very good, (better than my 1st go on photoshop).


Anyway, last comment from me for a while.. off on my hols today :) (nowhere exotic just off down to the coast), but looking forward to see the new pics in this thread on my return.



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MSTER, finished Porsche looks great, not perfect but getting there with practice 👍, i agree with Cano.. clean line work would make a huge difference (imo).
 
Actually I wanted to add more one suggestion that might aid you in illustrating its form better, DA ZR1; ditch the lime green base colour and work in grayscale. You can do this by hitting Ctrl+U (hue/saturation menu) while on that colour layer, turn the saturation to zero, and then adjust the gray so it's 50% black, 50% gray. From there, use black and white air brushes at a low opacity and start adding shadows and highlights. Make sure you're using new layers for these so correcting and adjusting things are less tedious later. I visualize form better in grayscale, I don't know about you though.

Once you're done, you can duplicate that flat gray layer, and put it above all the other shadow/highlight layers. Give it colour by hitting Ctrl+U again, check off "Colourize" and play with the settings there. Change the blending option to Multiply, overlay or some other one until you find a decent result. You may find that you'll need to open the hue/saturation menu several times while you try a different blending option.


edit: I'm liking that strong hard contrast on the hood there, mster... looks a lot better than your older work so you're making progress! 👍 At this point, it'd be great if you continually worked on tidying up your line work.

My line work isn't fantastic, but I usually get praised by my peers and some profs at school because I cover up my mistakes with either a eye-catching finish (sort of like what you did there), or I go over my lines a few more times thickening the line (sacrificing a clean professional sketch for a stylized one), but they don't need to know that. :P

Back to your drawing, I'd like to see more consistent shading, because some areas look blurry and actually reduce the potential sharpness of the image. Perhaps you can try a drawing exercise where you draw a car, showing off it's form and all, without a single bit of shading whatsoever. In otherwords, zero grays, 100% black and white. I imagine it would be easier on black paper (such as bristol board) with white coloured pencil, conte, chalk, etc., or vice versa. Remember this? Try doing something like that, with no grays, sort of like this.
 
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edit: I'm liking that strong hard contrast on the hood there, mster... looks a lot better than your older work so you're making progress! 👍 At this point, it'd be great if you continually worked on tidying up your line work.

My line work isn't fantastic either but I usually get praised by my peers and some profs at school because I cover up my mistakes with either a eye-catching finish (sort of like what you did there), or I go over my lines a few more times thickening the line (sacrificing a clean professional sketch for a stylized one), but they don't need to know that. :P
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Holy **** that amazing!
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. Personally I think that I did a better job with the linework, and therefore it gives it a more realistic look along with the hard contrast.
 
Great valuable advice (greyscales etc) AOS 👍, i'm gonna try and give that a go myself when i get the chance.

MSTER, Great pic 👍, even better than the Porsche (imo), i'm guessing you copied it but still, the perspective is excellent. you keep on improving (imo).
 
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Oop, you missed my edit, mster.
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Don't worry, I read your latest edit and I will try the 100% black and white technique the next time I draw a car, which will probably be today.
At 1ness
Great valuable advice (greyscales etc) AOS 👍, i'm gonna try and give that a go myself when i get the chance.

MSTER, Great pic 👍, even better than the Porsche (imo), i'm guessing you copied it but still, the perspective is excellent. you keep on improving (imo).
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To be honest I feel like the Ferrari is the best one that I've done so far, but as AOS mentioned I need to be more consistent with shading to get the realistic touch.
 
Thanks for the feedbacks... about the line work, i will re-work on them all, they are there more to visualize the lines... later i will make them green when they have to be green... and etc. I didn't really want to do another sketch, because i might not have time to... even because i still have to do a rear one, and have to do the interior...

*realizes how short the time is :nervous:*

Or i could... *thinks*
 
Of course you can do another sketch.... do one in 1 minute. It'll force you to avoid nitpicking the details.


Also, I wanted to ask, mster, are those white smudgy spots on the front lower-half fender are done with an eraser?
 

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