McLaren F1 LM

Desi Z 07 · 02-15-2004, 12:04 PM

Hi everyone... this is my first time posting a drawing. You might recognize it from one of the previous contests (whatever happened to that contest anyways??). I finished it a couple months ago, but evertime I tried to scan it it came out to be about 2 megs in size.

... that got really annoying. I finally got it to be the right file size, but i guess the picture is kind of small. If someone is willing to help, i might be able to post a bigger picture. The drawing is done in a normal #2 pencil, nothing special here, i just blended the lines w/ my finger for the shading. It doesnt look as good in the scan as it does in real life, but its good enough. Hope you all enjoy it!

If you can help me resize the picture, please PM me... thanx in advance

jordanmc2399 · 02-15-2004, 12:25 PM

thats pretty good man, but i think you need to work on your mirrors. how old are you btw?

acoustic · 02-15-2004, 12:45 PM

that is a good drawing. one way i found how to resize the image, is ( for me at least) when i save it from the scanner into jpeg form, it asks how much i wish to compress it. the less i choose to compress it, the smaller the file size is. and i dont think that effects the picture quality or anything. if you can, try what i just said. hope that works out for ya

Zcaithaca · 02-15-2004, 12:52 PM

i like it...its pretty good shading too

KustmAce · 02-15-2004, 12:57 PM

look very good, and i agree, the mirrors could use a little extra attention

Desi Z 07 · 02-15-2004, 01:01 PM

jordanmc2399--- thanx a lot man, im glad you liked it. You're right about the mirrors though, it was the last thing i did on the car, and I did it kind of last minute because i wanted to turn it in for the school newspaper. I coulda done a better job, but i'm happy with them. Another thing i needed to work on was the rims. I have one hek of a hard time w/ rims. Im 14 yrs. old, and im turning 15 in march. Darn... you made me feel like a lil kid...

... haha

acoustic--- thanks for the help, im gonna give that a try. the way i got the picture to fit was by uploading it into sony's image station. then i clicked on the image preview in imagestation, and saved the preview that came up to my hard drive. turned out to be only 32 kb vs the 455 kb version i uploaded

. Then i jus uploaded it into the automotive forums database. Wierd, but it worked! Ill give your way a try too.

Zcaithaca--- thanks... this was my first time shading any of my drawings. I was pretty happy with the results.

Desi Z 07 · 02-15-2004, 01:08 PM

haha... i guess my mirrors are worse than i thought. Now that i look at the picture, the right mirror does look too small. I guess i have something to remember when i draw my next car.

acoustic · 02-15-2004, 01:24 PM

ahh, the mirror isnt that bad, just maybe the outline is just too dark or somethin, its pretty much in the right shape

Mshkttck · 02-15-2004, 05:09 PM

that's awesome!

Desi Z 07 · 02-15-2004, 05:44 PM

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that's awesome!

thanks a lot. btw: I'm looking forward to seeing your drawing in the concept/tuning car contest.

asaenz · 02-15-2004, 05:55 PM

Sweet F1.

I am glad you started a seperate thread for your work. I think everyone should go ahead and do that (from the last comp.) that way more peops will see everyone's art.

Great job.

Oh, just one thing, I know you know this, but the back wheel might need a little more work. Just in case you need/want a tut.

http://www.drawthrough.com/tutorials/index.html

Take care
Alfred

Desi Z 07 · 02-15-2004, 06:20 PM

Thanx for the input asaenz. I had never tried any shading before until I saw your drawing of the Nismo Skyline R34. That drawing was truly inspirational. I just took another look at it today, and its just mind blowing... makes my drawing look like a 5 yr. old did it. Thanks for the inspiration. But you're right bout my back wheel. I had a lot of trouble with it, and after erasing a lot, the paper got thin, so it just looked worse. So eventually i just ended up leaving it as it was. But it was still the best drawing ive ever done... thanks a lot for the input... ill definetely check out that website.

asaenz · 02-15-2004, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Desi Z 07

Thanx for the input asaenz. I had never tried any shading before until I saw your drawing of the Nismo Skyline R34. That drawing was truly inspirational. I just took another look at it today, and its just mind blowing... makes my drawing look like a 5 yr. old did it.

No it doesn't man your drawing is great, your stuff looks better than mine when I was in the 9th grade. I just have a few yrs on you that is all.

Hey, thanks for saying that my work is inspirational, I appreciate that. I really want to help folks as much as I can and learn from folks here too, and ofcourse show my work. We are all at different stages in our skill and even use diff. styles and media. I think it is cool we all can get along here and just enjoy auto art.

Take care

alfred

lostprophets · 03-17-2004, 04:31 PM

jeez i agree with him....... your skyline is absolutely AMAZING!......... it is inspirational..... i decided to make a skyline because of it

Bryan Vandie · 03-23-2004, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Desi Z 07

Hi everyone... this is my first time posting a drawing. You might recognize it from one of the previous contests (whatever happened to that contest anyways??). I finished it a couple months ago, but evertime I tried to scan it it came out to be about 2 megs in size.

... that got really annoying. I finally got it to be the right file size, but i guess the picture is kind of small. If someone is willing to help, i might be able to post a bigger picture. The drawing is done in a normal #2 pencil, nothing special here, i just blended the lines w/ my finger for the shading. It doesnt look as good in the scan as it does in real life, but its good enough. Hope you all enjoy it!

If you can help me resize the picture, please PM me... thanx in advance

ummm is this cool?

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