TheRoadVirus

Check this picture out.. I think it looks awesome.



Go to http://www.celshade.com to see the guys other work..

Sonar_un

hot

Frozer!!!

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Looks very cool, thnx

vic_V8

no badges?

Gr89RS

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That's pretty cool, it makes a nifty desktop.

theSteve

that rules.

87CIZ

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is it me or does it look a hell of alot like Kandied's? Same wheels and all I'm pretty sure. Only difference is the tint strip on the windshield.

Edit: I take that back i was checking out his car and his does have a tinit strip on it. I'm sure that's his car.

Jgolden314

It is his car, he posted it on a local forum.

TheRoadVirus

Yeah, I should have clarified.. That is Kandied's car.

AaronIROCZ

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it doesn't have fog lights though

nick418

kandied took them off

nick418

heres some other pics i found

nick418

this is just talent!

billsfirebird

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Is that a photoshop filter?

Looks awsome.

BlueZee28

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i wanna know how to do that!!!

the grand sport from his page is my desktop background haha

anyone know how to do that?

Gr89RS

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... or door locks, handles, and the nose emblem. I don't believe his car has fog lights anymore.

AaronIROCZ

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Welll I guess I learn something new everyday then, i didn't know he removed them

TheRoadVirus

The guy doesn't do door handles, I don't know why. Same with the emblems, I guess.

He also did that black one. He does it by hand somehow, it's crazy.

KBeez

These Are Crazy, I wanna way to save these all though. Check this one! And there's some way bad 1st and 4th gens as well!!

1FastZ

nice

lxcamaroxl

I already started tracing the outlines on kandies car.

these are so awesome, theyre going in my collection

Difflock

Sniff...sob...
NO FIREBIRDS or T/A's ..

FlyinLow89

theres a away to save them. rbing up the picture. then press "Print screen" on your keyboard. go to photoshop or paint or any decent programn of the kind....and hold CNTRL and press V. then jsut crop out the other crap

lxcamaroxl

i outlined it

thehat

Cool pics

IROCThe5.7L

theSteve

I'm not going to try and cheapen the efforts the artist expended here... but saying this is done "by hand" is a little bit of a stretch.

It is, essentially, creative use of a photoshop filter, with some extra work done after it is applied.

The style and idea is awesome though.

FlyinLow89

its no a filter. all the lines of the car, and outlines of the colour changes are traced in a drawing program. then each section of colour if filled in

theSteve

Dewey316

What filter is it then? I would sure love to know, the one I did of my car, was done totaly freehand.

FlyinLow89

Here the tutorial directly form that guys site....now roll your eyes at me genious

Cell Shading tutorial

theSteve

*genius

theSteve

p.s. i'm just being a goof.. i stand corrected re:this guy's methods.

i believe i am able to reproduce a similar effect using a ps plugin.

Scottlb9

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this wasn't done in PS at all and that no filters were harmed in the making of this picture.

Whoever did it used the pen tool almost exclusively.

Although this can be accomplished in a PS, my bet is on Illustrator due to the level of complexity.

spearson

You are correct.

Scottlb9

What did I win?

Seriously, who did it?

Was it you spearson?

spearson

Nah, not me, but if you read the tutorial on his website, he said he uses the pen tool in illustrator. Or so I remember.

Abubaca

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Mine are all done in Illustrator.

There are plenty of aftermarket plug-ins/filters that will produce similar effects, but I don't have any of them.

...comics are similar, but are line art done in pen, and then scanned, flatted, and then colored all in photoshop. I'm currently working on a few hand drawn "designs", and I'll post 'em when I'm done. It'll be awhile though.

Abubaca

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...and that guy's tutorial used a bunch of fancy layering tools in PS, (which isn't a bad idea), but when all is said and done, it's still using the pen tool to create vectors/cells. It is NOT a filter.

....but like I said, you can get some "similar" effects with filters, especially aftermarket tools.

lemming

Sorry for registering just for this, but I check my referrer logs.

Yeah, that tutorial needs to be updated. I'm currently doing all the trace stuff manually in Illustrator, using the original image as a template. I use almost exclusively the "pen" tool, which means that 90% of my time is spent tweaking Bezier curves until they're right. I then export it at an obscenely high resolution (usually 3000xsomething or larger) to a .PSD file and color it in Photoshop.

You could probably get similar results with a filter, but I think doing it "by hand" is better-there have been times when I've taken a little artistic license to exaggerate a bodyline or something.

And I would've done a third-gen Firebird/TA by now if I'd run across a suitable (well-lit, nice, and high-res) picture of one. If anyone sent me one (or provided a link, or whatever), I'd probably do it.

Dewey316

How high res do you want?

http://cascadecrew.org/memrides/SchultzyGTA/Mike01.jpg

(I'll donate a good friend of mines car.)

lemming

That'd work.

Abubaca

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Lemming: First of all, great work. Can I ask why you don't color in Illustrator? All of mine are done in AI. It seems you use more cells/vectors for accenting, where I use more gradients. I would think your method would only make illustrator that much better of a choice. I'm just curious.

...I'm trying to learn how to color in PS too, just to add a tool to my graphics toolbelt so to speak. I'm getting into hand drawing/pen drawing, and all the comics nowadays are colored in PS. I can't say exactly why they don't use illustrator, but I'm certainly not an expert at this style, so that's why I'm asking. Maybe you know something I don't.

...anyhow, good work, and I'm curious to hear some comments about our "other" hobby

Abubaca

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Just actually "read" your tutorial, and I see you don't like AI's coloring method.

Fair enough, but I still think it'll grow on ya if you give it a chance!!!!

lemming

It's really pretty simple--if I try to do everything in Illustrator, I'd spend much more of my time fussing with layering--I imagine I'd have to draw the bounding shapes, pick a color, hide them, draw the next smallest set of shapes, etc. Honestly, I'd like to try it sometime, and I think it would give good results if I was able to pull it off. I'd want to start with a lower-detailed piece than some of my recent stuff, though--I'd probably go psychotic otherwise.

The nice thing about coloring in a conventional paint program like Photoshop or PSP is that you can do a couple quick and dirty tricks to make the process go faster. For example, I first export with antialiasing turned off. I then create a new layer, just for the colors, and use the magic wand tool to select regions (with a little bit of edge feathering--doing this on the non-antialiased version lets me avoid color bleeding and white spots). I then color in the regions with the brush tool, essentially drawing gradients by hand (sometimes sloppy; a good argument for Illustrator). When I'm done, I throw out the layer that contains the lines, replace it with an antialiased version, and fill the background with color to hide any spots that may have been missed.

It's a hack, in other words. If I knew of a quick and easy way to color bounded regions in a more "natural" way in Illustrator, I'd definitely do it, since it would allow me to maintain vector goodness.

An aside: Adobe has made HOW many versions of Illustrator for Windows now, and they still can't figure out how to have the thing remember window size and position?! Is the "maximize" button their way of punishing me for not owning a Mac? Or driving a Ford?

Jaded

I'd have to say invest in a Wacom Tablet and just stay in photoshop. But your work looks great.

Photoshop is THE coloring program. Illustrator isn't a bad program, especially the whole vectorness of it, but with photoshop you can really get down and dirty.

And a lot of the effects used in comic books could not be duplicated in illustrator. And while some fledgling inkers happen to use illustrator for the inking, but there are inking programs out there that work great.

And if you want to see some comic book style coloring check out my deviant art site, http://the-jaded-rper.deviantart.com/ some of my work is there.

Abubaca

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Jaded- Very nice work. That's similar to what I'm trying to learn. I used to do illustration WAY back in the day. In High School I first found "graphic art" and I never really looked back. I don't have a degree, but I've taught myself AI, PS, Freehand and a few crappy others. AI I'm pretty solid with, but PS you can never really master I don't think. You merely get good at what YOU use it for. "Commercial" work I think I've got a pretty good grip on in PS. I manage a Sign shop, and I'm also responsible for all the heavy duty graphic work. Recently a co-worker showed me some of his comics. He's written and inked a short graphic novel that he's trying to get published. Anyhow, over the years I've developed a few characters that I never really developed and he's been helping me on the pencil/ink/coloring process. It's been GREAT to actually do some hand drawing again!!! I don't have any scanned yet, but I'll share some soon. I always had the talent but never knew how to finish them. We'll see what happends.

I've also found few sites and tutorials on coloring in PS which I'm playing with. It's cool to actually be excited about art again after so many years!!!!!!!!!!!!