Tooned/Vectored Cars + Stuff

[under18carbon]

And here's the head (don't ask me why it's separated ) :



EDIT XB!
29th March, 2005



Head close up :

 

[donbenni]

Nice going Shant, missed those updates 👍

Just a quickie from today http://www.deviantart.com/view/16645799/

 

[AutoTooned]

Damn! That dragon is very well done! Hand drawn too! I like it alot.
Wondering, are you retracing them in AI or are you auto-tracing them?

 

[Chaos Fire]

Well, jsut stopped in here to say that my work will msot likely be featured on a website's t-shirts. The owner loves my style out of all for some reason. Oh well, i'll keep you guys updated if I ever bother to keep you updated.

 

[under18carbon]

@don : For something you refer to as a "quickie" that is really good. A "quickie" vector from me lasts something like 2374892734 hours. BTW Don, you gotta tell me how you make those nice looking CF patterns.

@Auto : I re-traced them, is there an auto trace function in AI?

@Chaos : Congratulations

 

[sUn]

Wow, Shant and donbenni! 👍

 

[Jugend]

U18, very cool dragon you got going there.

Donbenni, read your second tut and discovered how much double work I do with my poor usage of the features in PS. Never bothered to even check out how the paths folder is setup. Never used "fill path". And so on... Will give it a try if I have another go to make the tooning more time-efficient.

And nice MR2 btw. Love how nice the paint looks with such little (?) effort. 👍

 

[donbenni]

U18, very cool dragon you got going there.

Donbenni, read your second tut and discovered how much double work I do with my poor usage of the features in PS. Never bothered to even check out how the paths folder is setup. Never used "fill path". And so on... Will give it a try if I have another go to make the tooning more time-efficient.

And nice MR2 btw. Love how nice the paint looks with such little (?) effort. 👍

Yeah in comparison to my previous few pieces, the amount of time spent on the MR2 is quite small. And yeah i'm pretty happy with how nice it came out with such little effort

Glad you found something of use in the tutorial

 

[donbenni]

There's a tooning comp going on over at photochop.net if any of you fancy joining. You have to submit just one piece you've created. The comp opens today and ends in one month. Come and give some support

http://www.photochop.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1271

 

[AutoTooned]

@Auto : I re-traced them, is there an auto trace function in AI?

Apparently there is. If scoured AI myself for it and have yet to find it.
Should be really helpful for those scanned in drawings.
If you find it, let me know.

Chaos, what website?

 

[under18carbon]

Apparently there is. If scoured AI myself for it and have yet to find it.
Should be really helpful for those scanned in drawings.
If you find it, let me know.

The only thing I've managed to find is :

Edit > Preferences > Type & Auto Tracing.

I've yet to it and see what it does (or how it functions).

EDIT :

Teh dragonz0rrrrrrrrr!11111111 RAWR!

Trogdor the burninat0rrrrrr!11111 Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants, Trogdorrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!

 

[Jugend]

Another small update, getting there...

 

[AutoTooned]

Looks great, GTJ!

 

[VmaN!]

The only thing I've managed to find is :

Edit > Preferences > Type & Auto Tracing.

I've yet to it and see what it does (or how it functions).

EDIT :

Adobe Streamline..use it to covert scanned lineart into vector format...its not cheating! =D

 

[ALPHA]

GTJugend, the shading is absolutely gorgeous!

Methinks I'm jealous .

 

[Jugend]

Thanks initial and ALPHA.

Yes, I'm very pleased so far too with the shading. Only bottom part of the body done so far, hope I can get the upper part looking equally good.

 

[Mister E]

 

[donbenni]

Long time no see Mister E! Good to have some work from you.

 

[Mister E]

After seeing what you guys are doing in Illustrator, I feel like quitting this before I get to far and using that...

What are you guys mainly using to get the beautiful gradients? The gradient mesh method, or something else?

Flash MX just isn't cutting it anymore... If Illustrator had the same line tool, I'd have been using that from the beginning.

I need to hurry this up. This thing has to be printed and everything before the 11th...

 

[donbenni]

I dunno what others use, but i use Photoshop. However i don't include many grads. People that use Illustrator i believe use the grad mesh yeah.

 

[under18carbon]

I have no ****ing ( ) clue whatsoever how to use the mesh tool properly. I just use those normal gradients.. gotta learn the mesh ones sometime.

Lovely Scooby btw, hope to see more of it soon! 👍

 

[Jugend]

Photoshop here too. And just the regular gradient tool.

Looks nice Mister E, good luck with the rest of it.

 

[zoxxy]

Here's my WIP of the WTCC Daewoo...eh, I mean Chevrolet.

(First time using AI too!)

 

[Jugend]

Here's my WIP of the WTCC Daewoo...eh, I mean Chevrolet.

(First time using AI too!)

So, you're choosing even crappier cars then me?

Good luck with it, looks like fun, good so far.

I just finished the 240, still room for lots of subtle improvement but I'm tired of it now. Pretty pleased anyhow. Any comments/criticism appreciated. Had to make up much of the ligthing due to the crappy original.

 

[donbenni]

Pretty darn sexy GTJ 👍

Love how soft it looks and clean and cartoony Lovely work. Rims look esp great!

 

[Mister E]

 

[zoxxy]

So, you're choosing even crappier cars then me?

Yup
Fet ball toon!

 

[Jugend]

Thanks don & zoxxy.

 

[Slick6]

Wow, great job GTJ. 👍 How about a variation of that in a silver?

 

[Mister E]