Car drawings

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Thanks for the feedback. Believe me when I saw it side by side with the photo I noticed a few things were off. I'm far from perfect, but I'm 18 and never taken any formal art classes. So I'm bound to get better.

Also I have tendency to stylize my drawing just slightly and over emphasize shadows and highlights, I like the way they "pop" more. One thing I want to work on is replicating lines and proportions better - the wheel and rear quarter panel are evidence ha.

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH the original scanned file from the print shop was extremely flat, and that is the result of me trying to replicate the actual drawing by adjusting the tonal curve in Lightroom 4. The body of the car is indeed darker in the original.
 
Whats Lightroom 4 ?, i don't know why, but i thought you were showing us an unedited pencil/ink (maybe) drawing.

[EDIT], Nevermind, googled it.
Personally i think it's a shame you adjusted it... kind of takes away a bit of the magic of it being hand drawn for me. It's still very good though, and no formal art lessons?, i can relate to that a bit.. didn't choose the option of studying art at grade level when i was in high school.
 
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At 1ness
Whats Lightroom 4 ?, i don't know why, but i thought you were showing us an unedited pencil/ink (maybe) drawing.

[EDIT], Nevermind, googled it.
Personally i think it's a shame you adjusted it... kind of takes away a bit of the magic of it being hand drawn for me. It's still very good though, and no formal art lessons?, i can relate to that a bit.. didn't choose the option of studying art at grade level when i was in high school.
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Haha When I say "flat" the image had no dark or light value. All I did were adjust the tones that were already in the data from the scanned file - I just "brought them out" It's not "photoshop" I didn't draw anything on the computer. It was 100% hand drawn. All I did was bring the file as close as I could to the tones of the real thing. No smoothing, dodging or layer adjustments. Basically all I did was accurately adjust the contrast to match the original.

Usually when you go to a print shop they do all that themselves! And that's part of why it's expensive.

What you see is much closer to the original than what the print shop came up with.
 
Oh, i see what you mean.
Wow!, i'd dread to think how light and washy the print shop version was, if what you're showing us is the (close to original) darker version, don't blame you for wanting to adjust it.
 
At 1ness
Oh, i see what you mean.
Wow!, i'd dread to think how light and washy the print shop version was, if what you're showing us is the (close to original) darker version, don't blame you for wanting to adjust it.
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For real haha, if I can find the original I will post it. But I delete all that stuff off of my HD because I like to keep my lightroom library strictly for photos.

They aren't a true print shop for artists, but it's all we got in town. That's why I ask for a CD of what they scanned up. Unfortunately my other stuff was squished and cropped along with being washed out as well. But it was "only" $7 so I didn't go back and complain.

I did take Art class 3 times in highschool, but it was just for fun. To practice, the teacher did pottery and wasn't an expert on pencil art. So I just drew whatever and he'd grade me on my work ethic in class. But later this month I will be taking fund. in design at our local junior college, looking forward to it!
 
Hmm. Art? Why is this. (that means I am bad at it )

Anyway have this
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Whoops, put too much camber on the right hand side tyre! :ouch:

(I've always struggled with front views where there's less room for error and getting away with it)
 
AOS-
Like that you picked up on the black I've been knocking you a lot for. 👍
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It's only just until now how much graphite you need for the dark areas... I took a photo of a BMW, made it black and white and tried to copy the grayscale as best as I could. That BMW drawing was the result 👍 .
 
Here's an Agera R I drew:
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It's terrible compared to you guys. Amazing drawings!

(I really need to learn how to draw spokes. Don't mind them, they look absolutely hideous....lol).
 
GranTurismo916
Here's an Agera R I drew:
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It's terrible compared to you guys. Amazing drawings!

(I really need to learn how to draw spokes. Don't mind them, they look absolutely hideous....lol).
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Is it me or does it look more like a Koniggseg (spelling)? And don't worry, you will improve with practice and I can also show you how to draw rims if you like.
 
MSTER232
Is it me or does it look more like a Koniggseg (spelling)? And don't worry, you will improve with practice and I can also show you how to draw rims if you like.
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He said it is an Agera... Agera = Koenigsegg. Koenigsegg is the brand, Agera, the model... ;)
 
Since you guys frown upon realism drawings...
haha! Came up with a render for the next veyron, theres a bunch of designs for cars like this in my sketchbook. not meant to be perfect just throwing some ideas on paper.
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CCXRacer
Since you guys frown upon realism drawings...
haha! Came up with a render for the next veyron, theres a bunch of designs for cars like this in my sketchbook. not meant to be perfect just throwing some ideas on paper.
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I love realism drawings. It shows us what artists are capable of when they push themselves to their limits.
 
CCXRacer
Since you guys frown upon realism drawings...
haha! Came up with a render for the next veyron, theres a bunch of designs for cars like this in my sketchbook. not meant to be perfect just throwing some ideas on paper.
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I think you'll find that the majority of people who comment/post in this thread actually prefer realistic/copied drawings... I think i could be the only one so-far, to express the opinion of preferring other styles.

In hindsight, looking back at my critique of your work. I think i was being a little bit too critical, so i apologise for that, and i hope it hasn't put you off continuing with your style of drawing.

The Bugatti looks great! 👍, and for me personally, i much prefer to see an artist doing this.. using their imagination, over something that's been copied from a picture.
Looking forward to see the rest of your sketchbook work. 👍
 
At 1ness
I think you'll find that the majority of people who comment/post in this thread actually prefer realistic/copied drawings... I think i could be the only one so-far, to express the opinion of preferring other styles.

In hindsight, looking back at my critique of your work. I think i was being a little bit too critical, so i apologise for that, and i hope it hasn't put you off continuing with your style of drawing.

The Bugatti looks great! 👍, and for me personally, i much prefer to see an artist doing this.. using their imagination, over something that's been copied from a picture.
Looking forward to see the rest of your sketchbook work. 👍
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Good thing is I was only making a joke:tup:
And your critique was totally fine, I went back adjusted some details on it. That kinda stuff is good for people haha. It's framed on the wall now in a cheap IKEA frame so I'm not gonna take it out and re-scan it.:ill: But one thing I did (and I completely forgot) was make the edge of the spoke a darker line. the fat spoke was actually due to a shadow cast on the rotor, and I forgot to make a separation line. If that made sense!

But thanks I will try to keep it up, I like doing all kinds of styles.

And no worries I'll still muster up the motivation to do a realism car drawing again, I will admit though the type of work above is more fun though. But as for right now I'm gonna be drawing portraits for awhile it seems.
 
MSTER232
I love realism drawings. It shows us what artists are capable of when they push themselves to their limits.
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I'm not sure whether i 100% agree with this ^.
Don't get me wrong, i love realistic drawings... who doesn't?, but i guess it all comes down to context.
If you mean realism, as in, a photo-realistic drawing of a photo... then for me?, no, i don't believe that is pushing the limits fully, don't get me wrong.. it still takes a shed load of talent to do such a thing, but (imo) i feel using your creativity is far more of a challenge and example of pushing yourself to the limit.

As for being able to do realistic drawings from a photographic memory (like some Autism/Asperger sufferers)... Now that's a whole different kettle of fish.
That is what i consider to be really pushing to the limit.
 
Push the limit is create something never seen with realism! Mix both things. Only realism is good, only creativity is also good, but what defines limit, it is both. Imo.
 
I'll jump in the debate.

Realism is pushing the limits of how accurate you can be with a pencil(etc.)

Creative work pushes the limits, of well your creativity.

Both require skill, but of different sorts. Neither one is less than the other in my mind.
 
I think i agree with both of you.. The definition of an artist pushing themselves to the limit, would probably be a combination of both creativity and penmanship.

For me personally though, i tend to find creativity to be more of a challenge for me (iv'e never been all that creative).. Where-as the penmanship part (although iv'e not demonstrated it), i think i find less challenging...
Although i haven't copied a photo of a car in years, when copying a photo to realistic standards, i find that the photo acts as a clear guide, helping to achieve a realistic finish.
I find when it comes to drawing something creatively, it's much harder (for me) to achieve that same realistic finish, as there is no guide... hence, i find it more of a challenge, and it feels as though it pushes me more to my limit.

Of-course, it's going to be different for everyone... very creative people may find the penmanship part the challenge and vice versa.
Overall though, i think you're both right.
 
Drawing realistically is one thing, but being able to express something without using realistic ideals is much tougher. As At1 said, photorealistic drawings all comes down to penmanship. It's how well you can copy something you're looking at. There's no boundless imagination going on because your brain doesn't need to visualize anything. Depicting something from your mind as "photorealistically" as you can would be the next step up, and the next step to that is conveying things beyond the tangible or simulating what you believe your eyes see, However, it's still bound by things you seen in your life; it already exists... just look at modern contemporary art now. Stuff doesn't look a thing like anything it's suppose to be, but it's something you've never seen before. That is what I believe is more challenging than just making it look real. I realize I went off the topic of car drawings, but this is what I feel art in general is about now and I felt it was an appropriate point.

At 1ness
I think i could be the only one so-far, to express the opinion of preferring other styles.
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Wrong. ;)
 
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