06 MBenz CLK

2006 Mercedes Benz CLK concept. Nothing special, sort of egg shaped concave license plate housing and new exhaust layout. Tell me what you all think of the design, technique etc. The colouring is all Letraset/Prismacolour markers, and the Paper is Letraset marker paper.
Took somewhere in the vicinety of an hour and a half including original sketches for ideas. BTW, I am 15 years old.

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?selected=742203

AnsisK,

Your rendering is tight. :iceslolan

alfred

wow, im impressed. would you mind sharing how you used the pencil, because it looks very good. you can hardly tell that its penncil. well at least i can hardly tell its pencil. its blended well. cool man

Heh, not pencil my friend. Letraset markers. I use Warm Grey 10%, 20%, 30%, 60% and 90%. I also used Tuscan Red and Black on that rendering.

Keep in mind the gradients are even tighter on the real version, but because of my scanner's bright bulb, it shows the layering. An example is the shadowing, it is supposed to be completely black, as on the original, but the bulb really picks out the thinner spots.

I have done a smudging pencil job, like asaenz's work, here's the back wheel.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-1/606501/elise1.5backwheel.jpg

That is sooooooo wicked man...Very nice work!

Letraset markers

I wonder how those compare to Prismacolor markers.

How much are they?

Thx

Alfred

i cant see the pic

I'll give you a new link in a sec.

Honnestly, I used the Prismas for the body it self. Letraset's Warm Grey series is a very pale yellow hue, so for body shading, it is rather a nuisance. The Prismas are a lot more of a bluish purple to them, which makes a good MB or Aston Martin body paint colouring.

The Letraset series is a bit more expensive, by a dollar or two, a wider variey of shades/colours. At one tip they're fat like the Prismas, but the other side is this really neat setup, where you completely take off the cap for a fine point, but you can remove the cap halfway for a superfine pen tip. It is really handy, you get all of the width range.

I think I'll do a front end job on this car, I like the design feel of it.

Bear with me, this is my first time using AF host.

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/66590elise1_7.jpg

Do you mind if I print out the CLK and draw it? I've got nothing but studying for finals this week in school and I wanna draw something :D Ima try it in red or blue though...if you let me;)

i love that benz. that's really cool. i've had bad memories with tuscan red though... my art teacher last year who was a bitch loved it. so annoying. and i too am 15

You can go ahead and redraw the car. Like they say, give credit where it is deserved. Another thing is, keep the license numbers, just for kicks. Thanks, and good luck.

Thanks all for the comments.

good work.

Hey asaenz, correction on the markers. The Letraset markers are really Tria markers. The company that owns/makes these Tria pens is called Letraset. They have their name exponentially bigger on the label than the Tria logo. Sorry for the mistake.

Cool man, that is a nice benz. If I wasn't such a supporter of Italian Exotica, I would buy one of those! (if it was ever produced)