I'v been seeing everyone elses work and askin for someone to do my car, and well no one did, so I got off my lazy a** and did it myself

I was bored and started it at work a few nights ago, turned out to be an 8 hour project though.

 

Slightly larger to see more detail, its done in illustrator, therefore I can take it up to like 200 sum inches with no distortion.

 

how did u do that? did u just take a picture of ur car and take all the color out excupt for the outlines

 

Its harder then it sounds but, basically traced it with the line tool and pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.

 

Good job. I did this eariler today at college with Autocad 2002. I'm gonna draw me a realtime 3d camaro It looks like crap on a stick but I did it in 35 min's inbetween drawing a custom plaque. I wish I had a brighter pic when I drew it out.

 

Yeah, it takes a lot of time to do these sometimes. Thats if you don't know how to draw. Some people can throw out a sketch in less than 10 minutes, and it will look as good as something I spent 6hours+ on.

 

by hand I am quick as hell, by computer I have to fix every little thing and it pisses me off till I give up, then I am happy with it.

 

You need to add a little color...that's what really makes your car shine!!! (no pun intended).

If ya send me the AI. file, I'l do it for ya', but don't give-up on tyying to do it yourself. The color is the hard part.

 

Sorry for so big,...lemme re-size.....

 

Abubaca, your using Illustrator eh? Looks good! Nice job 86 BTW.

 

hey abubaca can i get an 800x600 version of that pic sent to me on my email? that'd make a sweet background!

 

Yes.....I use Illustrator. It's the best IMHO.

Yeah, I'll send you a few I've done.....later on...gotta eat dinner now.

 

Illustrator is by far the greatest program to use. The Ram Air Firebird is very clean and precise. I like it! Nice Job!

Steve

 

I'd love to if you feel up to it. It may be harder then it looks, cause some of the areas arent complete shapes, its on a white background so ya cant tell. When I started I didnt intend to do a good job, it just turned out that way, so Im not sure how colorable it is.

I knew a little of illustrator for a while, and Im in school for Visual Communications, so where learning it, just havent done the coloring yet. So yeah, let me know if ya wanna still play around with it, but I dont expect anything really out of it cause of how the .ai file is.

 

Illustrator and photoshop are arguably the best programs, BUT Quark is just so much fun. In a few minutes I'll post my reason as to why.

 

nice, 86. real clean.

 

Heres why I like quark, I may ***** this into a new post too.



BTW for people who dont think there is to much to that, all work on there was created by me, not scanned, I did the HPP logo and even the Primedia logo/barcode, it looks a lot better full size but that would be to big to post.

 

I colored it kinda, needs more work, but I dont wanna put that much effort into this, Maybe next one I'll plan to make it good from the begining so its easier.

 

I got my new one done took almost 2 hours to do. The rims are gaudy looking. I wish I had a photoshop program. hehehe I even made a ryce version of it too lol.

 

LOL, I had a blast with this

 

Hey 86....Email the file to me.

I could just redo the entire car, but that's already done...no need to re-invent the proverbial wheel here.

c28@triad.rr.com

 

that took you 8 hours?

dam i could draw that in 5 minutes haha :lala:

 

:cough:...queer ..:cough:

 

Yeah, but in what program, and with what detail?

 

Ahaha I'm not bashing u good job.

Just saying...

I drew it in adobe photoshop, i use layers, makes it very easy.

here is an example, u probably seen it already

this took me about 1 hour to fully complete.



how did i do it? grab the original photograph, use the paint brush tool, with a combination of holding the shift button to make a series of lines to outline the major curves. then make a new layer for the color and place it behind the line layer. then make another layer for lights and utilities and stuff. very simple.

 

easyspeed.. i think the idea of the boards is to be constructive.. it kinda sounds like you're putting the dude down.

no offense, of course, just my observation.

plus... how about you do as you say, and whip up a drawing of your car like 86 did. i was impressed with your last illustration, i want more.

 

i wasn't trying to turn him down, i was merely suggesting that if it took you 8 hours just to get the lines (which look VERY good i must say) then perhaps you gotta change your method to speed it up

 

I know, that wasnt "true" attitude, it was joking. I'v seen your work before, I like it, Photoshop is nice, but for stuff like this its got its limitations, try enlarging that, It aint gonna happen.

 

I'll give a quick demonstartion on why illustrator is better and is worth taking so long to do. gimme 5 minutes to scale a file and post it

 

Now do this, still this crisp and sharp with photoshop. I can take that car a part peice by peice, and also I can scale, all, or any part of it HUGE, this is 500% of the wheel.

 

Heres a 4th gen I did today, this one is at 4 hours now, Still need to do the wheels, the colors arent the final colors, its just to see how its gonna look.

 

dam, looks good!

print piece by piece of the car huge scale, and then you can have 1 car on each wall of your room, wallsize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hail:

 

lol, that'd be sweet. For reasons such as that, that is why illustrator is so popular, you can scale from to small to see, to like 200 sum inches I think it is. and if thats not big enough, do it in multiple pages.

BUT, its vector work, you cant get photo detail out of it, it looks super crisp and well...cartoonish, Photoshop is equally amazing but it works in raster (pixel) images, so if you zoom in to much you see squares, but you can get perfect detail out of it otherwise, I love both programs equally. they are actually made to be used together and are sold in a package together too.

 

Heres the fourth gen done.

 

Here is a drawing i did of my car.I didn't finish it yet so



I wanted to see it with a ram air hood so



Here is one that someone put a drawing up and i redone and no this one is not done yet

 

One more i will show.I don't remember who put this one up but all i did was coloring

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Trans Am
[B]One more i will show.I don't remember who put this one up but all i did was coloring


Yo, Trans AM. Those last 2 drawings were done by me a while back. The last one was suppossed to be what a 5th gen could look like, but it wasn't changed enough.


To me, it doesn't matter how long it takes you. Some people can do drawings in minutes while it may take others hours. The more of them you do, the faster you can get.

Even if an 8 hour drawing that you did would only take me 2 minutes, I still can appreciate what you did, especially if you don't do that kind of stuff on a regular basis.


I don't draw on the computer, I draw all of my drawings by hand and scan them into the computer. I use photoshop because I don't have illustrator. I am already very familiar with the program so I don't use anything else. One thing I don't like about photoshoop is that you can not resize an image to be larger without losing quality.

 

I've been listening to the photoshop/illustrator conversation, and here's my take. Keep in mind I use these prgrams at work all the time.

Anything you can do it photoshop, you can do in illustrator 100 times better... "illustration" wise. Of course for photos, PS is best. Doing a drawing over an existing photo, like the red one posted earlier seems to be popular, but it can be done to look much better by simply bringing the photo into Illustrator first. Sure, If you're not familiar with "AI", then the tools in "PS" will be easier for you to use, but it's worth learning "AI" if you enjoy doing this stuff. As 86 mentioned, "AI" is vectored, so you can do things in MUCH greater detail. "PS" is pixelated, or rastered, so you'll never get the detail. Don't think of the two programs as PHOTO and Drawing software, think of them as Pixelated/bitmap editors and vectored/line editors. They each cross over a bit, but none are as good as the other in there respective area, and why would they be? they're both made to work together. And yes, you can buy them together. I did.

Hope this helps...not that there was a problem.

Oh, and I'm gonna color 86's drawing, look for it soon.

 

Well, I don't have illustrator so I will just have to be content with Photoshop at the moment.

 

devianb, you do your stuff by hand right?....in that respect, I suppose PS might make it easier if you want to mod your scans.

Haven't done that, so I'm not really sure.

 

LOL, and I haven't drawn a car on the computer. In order for my drawings to show up in decent detail, I have to save them on maximum, which means the pics will be too large to post on here.

 

Many years ago I got started on Paint Shop Pro. It is what I got used to for photo editing. I got a copy of Photoshop and never really used it much as I was too used to PSP.

I have never really known what Illustrator was but I have to say the illustrations you guys are pulling off are quite impressive. I would like to know more about the learning curve for Illustrator.

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Red 86 T/A 5.0 TPI (LB9/WS6)
~HyperTech Cap/Coil/Rotor/AFPR
~Derale Adjustable Fan Switch ~ 170° Stat
~Flow Matched Injectors ~ K & N Air Filter
~Ported Plenum ~ Pirelli 245/50/16
~SLP TB Airfoil ~All Else Stock

 

With no experience or training in illustrator if you aquired the program and tried to do something you'd be lost, I was, I could barely color in a square before in AI , and I taught myself photoshop.

But once you have even a little bit of training its easy, and you learn more and more as you go, the program is quickly becoming my favorite, you can do anything with it really as far as illustrations.

Anything from these cars to company logos

 

Well, I'm self taught. Of course, I've been using various software for over 10 years now, so I kinda ruined THAT curve. Once you pick up the basics, it's easy. I still learn new commands and tools every now and then.

Here's an hour of woking with 86's file that he sent me. Dude, you were right about all those lines not being whole shapes....I had to do all kinds of cleanup...but all in a days work.

 

I left all the little quirks and off-colors and of course, there's a LOT of detail left to do, but I figgered I'd show ya where I'm at.

 

The lines look very sharp. I would have thought you would have worked on that bubble on the front bumper corner. Still looks good though.

 

hey while your on, check out my post in the T-shirt board. See if you like that.

 

What IS that bubble........hmmmmmm.......musta snuck in there somehow.

hmmmmm

 

OK, I got it. It was just the way it looked since it's not colored right yet......does this help?

optical dilusion?

 

You guys are making me wanna rip out my PS 7! But I gotta do my database homework