Second try with color

Well, I thought I would give it another try. I was a little dissapointed with the color results. The pencils dont shade well at all. :( I think I will have to try some other medium for color. I just scribbled the background in a few minutes cause I wanted to move on to something else. I think I should have tried to get the colors a little darker. Maybe next time. :rolleyes:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/9870042.jpg

are you nutz?!?!?!?!?!

thats one of the best jobs ive ever seen, how the hell you did it?

Hey Hawk312,

I am glad you are part of our forum. You car is awesome, what can I say.

Can you give us a run down on the work? Tell us what media you used and just a small write up or something.


Thx

al

Oops I see you said pencils in your original post.

al

Hey now thats much much better then the last one! the coloring on the rims looks especially good. The roof is off but still overall very good. Some highlights could really make it pop (white gouche works well as Thom taylor say conte crayon may work as well). Try using the white pencil to blend but do some tests first you can get very nice results. Also try shading one way then going over it again in the opposite direction this will make it smoother build it up slow though. You could also try contour shading where you shade in the direction of the form its complicated and hard to do tho.
Josh

Thanks for the compliments! The picture I took out of a Chevy High Performance mag. It was about 3"X5" original in the magazine. I drew a graph over top the original, about 15 blocks wide by 10 high, and graphed a peice of bond paper I had here the same. Using a graph made it much easier! I also took a subscription card out of the magazine and cut two slots in it. One slot was exactly the size of one of the blocks of the graph I drew on the picture in the magazine. This way, I could place the card over the picture and have the single block I am working on visible, and all the others covered so I could really focus my concentration on the particular block. The other slot was much smaller, and I used this for trying to get the correct color for an area. The card was white, and let me compare the area showing through the slot to the white card. I did this because alot of areas are deceiving when looked at as a whole, looking gray or blue, when in actuallity they are closer to brown. I used a normal #2 pencil for the outline, and then filled in with colored pencils. I also took advice from someone on the board here, and bought shading torts. and stumps )for a total of $3 :) ).

WOW i never knew about this forum here, it is really kool. btw your car loosk great i dont knwo what you are talking about, and i am glad you just scribbled the background it lets the conctration center on the car more than the rest which is what matters, it also gives a unique focus look to the pic as though the BG is out of focus, i relaly like it

-GTi-VR6_A3

:eek:holy shitz dat car looks damn near realistic(i mean real looking like an actual pic of the car)

this is something else from what I´ve seen, its perfect! post more drawings please :cool: