FINALLY FINISHED Nismo R34

Hello everyone.

This car is done, so am I :)

It took like 40-50 some odd hours.
A huge learning curve for me

The biggest thing I learned was to change horizon reflections if need be of course it was to late when I realized it because I had already fixed the drawing with spray. Oh well.

As promised I will turn any one part of this car into a tutorial (very detailed I might add). For example a wheel or head light or grill. I was not able to take pictures of all the stages of this car because I had to give back the digicam I was borrowing I hope to buy myself one.

These pictures where taking with a 2meg/pixel camera, so the quality is not the greatest and I must say the original looks a lot better than these pics. I plan on buying a 4 megpix camera soon.

Also the negative picture was taken for fun. It looks cool.
Anyway thanks for checking it out.

Please you guys give some feed back on what part of the car you would like me to reproduce and show a step-by-step procedure.

One other thing many thanks to Chris aka FlyontheWall from the modeling forum, for providing me a reference picture. Thanks Chris you da master modeler :) and a good photographer

al

This is my scanned image w/ my new scanner. This looks better except you can see my splice :)
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/35607201r34justright.jpg

This is my 2meg digicam
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/137929r34bw.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/550437r34neg.jpg

Totally impressed by your artwork, its simply stunning.

Quite shocked to hear it takes 40-50 hours to draw though!:eek:

Thats a masterpiece! Brilliant!! :eek: :bigthumb:

that's friggen insane- It looks like a black and white pic of a real car!

DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dayam!!!.....Makes me wanna bust out with my pencils and draw. VERY VERY VERY VERY Nice

Very nice work, definitely a show quality drawing :iceslolan :bigthumb: .

David

those are sketches?


damn man thats some nice work :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb:

3 thumbs up

that looks like a model dude or even he real thing.:eek7:

awesom:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
:bigthumb:

i did it standing in a show room, here it is:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/753525s1233.jpg


-Ran

Gosh Ran that is tight,

I got to learn PS better.

Can you provide some steps on how you did that?

Thank, man

Thanks for the compliments everyone. :)
It helps keep me going.

al

that is so awesome :eek:

really, my jaw dropped to the floor when i saw this :eek:

it really looks like a b/w photography :eek:

Originally posted by asaenz
Gosh Ran that is tight,

I got to learn PS better.

Can you provide some steps on how you did that?

Thank, man

Thanks for the compliments everyone. :)
It helps keep me going.

al

thanks:smile:

and heres how to do the car in the showroom thing:

1. select the car with the lasso tool and copy-past it in a new document in PS.

2. get a wood pattern and brush it to make the floor so that the car will have enough place to stand on.

3. now you just chose a color for the wall and brush it in the backround, and your done!

its a bit complicated if you dont know all of the options in PS, but im shure u will get it rigth sometime if u keep on trying.

hop this helps you,


-Ran

About time you finished it and not looking too bad either :eek: :bigthumb:

That is just too sweet man! As my friends and I would say, "That is pimpshit!" :worshippy

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J/k:D


You got some MADD skills asaenz:bigthumb:

If I didnt know it was a drawing I prolly would think it was the real thing!

Very nice indeed:worshippy

Originally posted by ghostchild316
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J/k:D


You got some MADD skills asaenz:bigthumb:

If I didnt know it was a drawing I prolly would think it was the real thing!

Very nice indeed:worshippy

yeah, if you look at it from some metres away, it looks like a photo even on the monitor!

wow amazing....im soo shoked by this incredible masterpiece....wow....lol....Im loving every single bit of it...NICE WORK !!!

Al, humbely bows and says thank-you to everyone.

I added a better picture that I scanned with my new scanner.
It looks a lot closer to the original than my 2meg digicam pict.

al

Damn! thats amazing I would love a tutorial on the head lights, If you noticed my dont come out as good as yours. and what did you use to draw it. Did you use photoshop or anyrhing like that?

dude that is amazing
i wish i could draw that good, make some bank off that talent man :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb:
4 thumbs up

Originally posted by eslipseaudi
Damn! thats amazing I would love a tutorial on the head lights, If you noticed my dont come out as good as yours. and what did you use to draw it. Did you use photoshop or anyrhing like that?

Eslipseaudi, you are the winner. I will redraw the head-light showing every step.

I used 2B .5mm mech. penicl w/ a very little bit of 2H wood penicl for the far side head light (because it was so light and the lightest part of the driver sides (rht side) window.

I also used stumps for blending.

I will cover everything in my tut.

Also thanks Jetts, Dr. Ak, and Ghostchild and everyone else. :)

Thanx man.

ugh i give up, great job master..

Thx for checking it, Jeff.

How has things been. Summer going well. Are you bored yet?

al

Three words:

Ho-Ly-Crap!:eek7:

holy sh*t i never seen a drawing that fuckin good. you are the best.:bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb: :bigthumb:

al pm me and ill tell you my problems :P im also on msn like 24.7 now so catch ya l8er

cpc

honestly thats amazing!
when i fisrt saw the picture of tha final drawing i thought it was the reference pic just scanned in. i think those wheels are in credible. the are so perfect and your reflection on the entire car are amazing.
i wish i could draw that good!
also could you post up the pic you drew it from?
i want to try it

Thx Craker 245, Spididdy, and Dapj88.

Here is the ref. pict.

http://www.scaleautostyle.com/SkylineN_g.php

4th picture from the left

Thx again for checking it out.

al

hey al, very nice job. 50 hours though:eek7:

one question, what size is the paper...yea i know i always ask, but is it just the same size paper as the stuff that you put in your printer.

oh, and you said you blended with a stump. what the hell is a stump.

:bigthumb:

The paper is 17x14.

A stump is a solid paper stick w/ a point.

http://store1.yimg.com/I/pearl_1744_152315131

You can get them at your local art store.

Did you see my 'Lead Ball' shading tutorial?
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t104303.html
I show how to use stumps

That is how I used them for the Skyline. I will be redoing the headlight showing all my steps. There is a trick on getting fine white lines I need to show you guys.

al

How do you make it look so realistic?:confused: That thing's awesome!:worshippy I'll never be that good:frown:

and i thought i was a good drawer!!!!:bigthumb:

Originally posted by CRUNCHED_UP___!
formerely known as 207010 and dont dis i had more than 200 posts

DUMB MOVE,IDENTIFYING YOURSELF AS A BANNED MEMBER.:bloated:

Hey man that car is bitchin' can you do a tutorial on the headlights, that car looks real

sorry i didn't look at the second pag esomeone already asked for a headlight tutorial, but im looking foward to it

Thx for all the view and compliments.

Yes, I will do the headlight. The head light on my drawing is of a model car, so the headlight tutorial will be using a picture of a real (full scale) skyline so we all can see the detail and I can draw it better too.

I need about 2 weeks before I can get to it, sorry about the delay.
School, work, and wife got me all busy. :)

al

unreal, I could swear its real

FUCKING AMAZING!

Wow! I have much respect for you man. I gotta get to practicing!

Thank you Jumpman_Z, bah humbug, and fwdfreak

al

sweeeeeett:bigthumb: :bigthumb:

great job Asaenz it looks beautifull it also looks very very tedious this type of work could wear you out real quick. there is something that i noticed although i like it now i thought it looked very subtily bloated. Then i saw the reference is from a model and that could explain it. i really like it now cause it kinda looks tougher if thats possible with a skyline. now you just need to incorporate things that couldnt happen in reality my art teacher always told me if i wanted a photograph i woulda taken a picture. this isnt meant to be offensive in the least, just something to think about. i know you have the hands of a surgeon and your technique is flawless.
Josh

Hey folks,

Thanks for the compliments.

No offense taken Phaturbo. You and your art teacher are correct. I fully agree. This was a practice run to see how exact I could get. I changed some things but next time I will change more from the original picture. I had plans of doing a different reflection on the side which I should have done.

But you are right why simply copy photos there really is no art it that.
I have some ideas for truly making cars into art.

I really like the works I see here in the forum because they are artistic and not copies of photos.

Thx again Phaturbo.

Another thing about modifing from your references and even combining ideas from many reference picts is that it protects you from copyright violations some what.

al

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Thx Madman159

I am only 12 yrs old......just kidding :)

I am 28 yrs old.

I read books to help with my shading technique and plus I pencil sketched during grade/middle/highschool. I am just about ready to start painting cars. I plan on selling prints of my artwork in a couple of years from now

The books have helped me a lot, I am not BSing you.

I am glad you are going to college I wish I could go back in time and go to college for art/graphic design. I am almost done with my degree in Information Management. Late start, get that college out da way, ASAP.

See I read all kinds of books about art, I even have a subscription to the Artist Magazine, just because a book or magazine doesn't talk about rendering cars I look for ways to apply what I am reading, to my car art works.

If you want a list of the books I have read I can post the links for you. They are scattered through out this forum.

Take care

al

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:eek2: DAMN! I know u've heard this a lot already asaenz but that drawing is the best i have ever seen.
Totally worthy:worshippy . As for drawing another car. Try drawing an RX-7, S2000, or an NSX. Right on dude!
:bigthumb:

Thx Johnnyboy5

I actually drew an RX-7 it is in color too.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t96497-1.html

al

Hey
That is really good, well done :bigthumb: I wish I could draw anything that even remotely looked like some sort of car :(

WOW, i dont know what to say, its amazing, i thought it was a real pic, i thought it was a model you did