Buick pre-line

More with that stupid Buick stuff again.

Here's my stage 3.

http://www.58vw.com/af/buick2.jpg

I'm going to tranfer it to regular paper again then transfer that to my inking paper. There's still some issues but I should get most of it worked out in the next 2 steps.

I'm still trying to keep it stylized and just have fun. You can see how I tried to carry the simplification through the entire car.

It's still going ok so I'm still.....ok.

-Lemorris

its gonna be AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
continu the good work.
You sould try to shade with a pencil...

It's for a shirt so it will be pen. I need the solid black for my fim positive, and the separations.

I'll put up some pencil work another time though.

Thats great.

It kind of looks like a color by numbers picture, you know what im talking about? Just cuz its kind of simplified.

Idd wear that shirt..

Thats one cool outline...

Lee, how about doing a supercar, I don't think you've shown us one of them before. It might be something different for you to do.

Issues? I don't see them, but then again I don't do detailed outlines, I concentrate on the shading. :)

Hope you get the "issues" sorted out anyhow.

excellent.

i see where you are going with this.

The holiday slowed me down but I finally did another transfer and fixed stuff here and there, and then transferred it to the inking paper. (Borden & Riley Paper for Pens).


http://www.58vw.com/af/buick3.jpg


Now I'm going to tape it to the back of some illustration board and then tape that to my drawing board, and start inking. I'll post wherever I am later and we should start to see what this thing is gonna look like.

-Lemorris

cool

How did I miss this thread?! :eek2: I love it.

How did I miss this thread?! :eek2: I love it.


Simply jaw dropping eh...

:chair: I thought you were gonna be finished...can't wait to see the end product.

wow! my god, thats insanely good!

Awesome Lemorris,

When you going to make video on designing and making t-shirts. :)

al

thats beautiful :)

That's looking absolutely awsome. I love the simplified reflections. Awsome!

OK I'm finishing this thing today...I hope.

I had to put it away for a while. (work and visitors).

Anyway it smells like inked Buick.

http://www.58vw.com/af/buick4.jpg

The inking won't contain all the tones. I'll do a lot of it on the computer. I'll be doing the grill in photoshop as well. I have some corrections to make, but for the most part it's ok. I'll ink through the whole thing then make corrections and add tones in photoshop.

Movin right along.

-Lemorris

very sweet...very very sweet!!!

omg, it smells like inked buick, i think it would smell more like pizza

guess i was wrong:banghead:

Purty looking!

Looks great Lemorris. Your good with ink! :iceslolan

excellent. very strong image. and reproducable on shirts and such.

Here's the latest. Just plugging along and making mental notes. There's some more stuff to fix, but once again I have photoshop so it can make me look better than I am.

http://www.58vw.com/af/buick5.jpg


More soon.

-Lemorris

awesome, lemorris, i'm loving this. i'm going to rip off some of your tricks and put them in my bag. your simplification of reflections just rocks.

i'm anxious to see how you resolve the hood and side of the body.

awesome, lemorris, i'm loving this. i'm going to rip off some of your tricks and put them in my bag. your simplification of reflections just rocks.

i'm anxious to see how you resolve the hood and side of the body.

i would have thought you would say clothes, cuz you know, you're into that

:evillol:

thats wicked nice lemorris, i luv it, i wish i can ink as well as you.

FINISH IT!!!

God Dommy you scare me sometimes...lol, just like last time...

i think im done picking on bonzelite, no hard feelings. in fact im guna do a little :banghead:

:biggrin:

i would have thought you would say clothes, cuz you know, you're into that

:evillol:


lol! i gotta admit, this is funny. some levity comes around!

there's a whole petting zoo waiting for you, secretmodder, with hungry eyes. i think that goat over there is eyeing you.

:naughty:

Thanks for the kind words fellas. It is appreciated.

I'm pretty much done hand inking now. Here's the latest:

http://www.58vw.com/af/buick6.jpg

Im not inking the sides, but I did darken them so you could see them.

I'm going to duplicate the layer and use one for selections and the other as a trap.

I will use the pencil shapes as guides and create tones on the computer. For the most part they will be simple gradients that I turn into half-tones. I'll get on that grill too.

It's about to happen AL, watch close.

I'll fix all the glitches now too, and then start basically coloring with gradients to get some nice tonal effects. This is just a 1 color shirt so I don't have to index my colors or nothin like that. I do have 2 more cars to draw though.



-Lemorris

lol! i gotta admit, this is funny. some levity comes around!

there's a whole petting zoo waiting for you, secretmodder, with hungry eyes. i think that goat over there is eyeing you.

:naughty:

im down with that...:smokin:

lemorris, thats stunning
ahh, your name is confusing, i always spell it wrong and find myself scrolling down to see the correct spelling. its always either lemmorris or lemmoris. mostly the second one

anyways, looks like you didn't finish it today as you planned
unless of course, you only wanted to get the inking done

eh, whatever

*patiently waiting to see the finished product*

is today over?

well, that depends on where you live, right now, you have 47 minutes to get done...but if we were in Poland, you would be 7h13 min behind, or is it 5h13 min

meh, whatever

GET DONE

i wanna seee....:uhoh:....quick

LOLOL well then for the record I'm in Poland next Thursday.

I definitely will not finish tonight. There's still a lot of tonal stuff to go, and I was going to put up some detailed info, and that will take a while.

Anyway here's the latest. This version still has the pencil layer active. When I finishI'll turn it off so everything will clean up.

http://www.58vw.com/af/buick7.jpg


I've just been dropping in tones so I could get a feel for what might be. Nothing is actually set yet. I'll go over all areas with a fine tooth comb, and lock it down next. Right now I'm just trying to see what I'm dealing with. I haven't converted anything to halftones and probably won't until tomorrow.

I did knock out the grill though. (This is photoshop) I blew up my reference and made a small selection of it's grill pattern. Then I made it grayscale, and did a brightness contrast and levels so it was almost solid black and white. Then I selected all (ctrl-a), and clicked edit-define pattern. I tried to make it as seamless as possible, but I wasn't too worried because I knew I'd be dropping another gradient over the whole area.

I then selected the grill area and made a new layer. Then I did an edit-fill-pattern, and selected the pattern I just created. It made an almost seamless pattern just like the original in my grill area.

http://www.58vw.com/af/buick8.jpg

Once this gets converted for print it will look great. I also know my client will be happy and it is an area I can point out as my attention to detail.

Now...having been defeated I must sulk back to my cave and cry a thousand cries. Perhaps the new day will show me favor....perhaps.

i think secretmodder is a bigger smart ass than i am. i've met my match.

lemorris, that looks absolutely fantastic.

woohoo, its nice to finally be appreciated :smokin:

yah man, that looks amazing. very cool

oh wait...if you look on the bottom of the hood, and to the left. see where the line curves. you can still see a space between the shade part and the black line you drew. it not exactly on

:evillol:

Excelent! Looks really cool! Good luck with the rest :).

Thats the coolest thing i think ive seen on this site so for IMO.

This is totally awesome, Lemorris.

It is so cool to see how you use computer and hand drawing to come up w/ your artwork.

Al

Nice man!!!!
hey lemoris, i have a question for u. I know you like vw alot. So, do u know about a vw that was used by police in the 60's? the model was a 4 cylinder 4 carbs...

oh wait...if you look on the bottom of the hood, and to the left. see where the line curves. you can still see a space between the shade part and the black line you drew. it not exactly on

:evillol:

O shut up Dommy, give him a break...::Kit Kat Song::...woof that was fun. So as i was saying nice illustration you have there man. I really like the whole car and how you do those nice details with photoshop. Can't wait to learn how to work with photoshop as it seems that you could do lots of cool things with it. :smile:

Great work!!!!

BTW: I have a picture of my old bosses 56' Buick (black - bagged) if ya need it for references.

Just so I don't feel like a complete loser here's the latest. Almost there. Just busy.

http://58vw.com/af/buick9.jpg

-Lemorris

Looks awsome man, I think it'll turn out great..

That looks sweet! BTW, where's the door line?

I haven't put it in yet.

I'll proabably just drop an indicator on the front side. It won't need to be fully drawn in. Having lines that don't always connect help lend to the stylized approach.

Anyone here ever hear of Patrick Nagel? He used to be big in the late 80's with his girl prints. I never liked his work really, but I liked how he would take a shape and allow it to carry a lot of visual wieght. The eye is fantastic at putting things together. Sometimes it's fun to do a piece that gives the viewer that opportunity.

I had thought about posting that here.

The challenge:

Draw a recognizable car (make and model) using no more than 5 shapes.

Thanks for the pick me up fellas...I'm draggin wagon on this one.

-Lemorris