realistic smoke?

hey bran new to the forum i was wondering if anyone knew howto draw real looking smoke cause im working ona drifting s14.

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Guess nobody can help........I just dont draw smoke!

I don't know how to do smoke(btw, i don't even know how to shade a car),....may be you should ask an art teacher.

im sure bonzelite could help!

smoke: you must first understand what you are able to see through the smoke, and what you can not see through the smoke.

do not assume what the smoke looks like. nothing looks worse than "stylized" smoke trying to pass for realism. you must look at dozens of photos of drift cars laying down smoke.

this is the first step. do this first. nevermind right now how to render it. you are not there yet. so go do that right now. do you understand?

see!

Hmm thats a good question. :smokin: I'd first try to shade the part which is in the smoke lighter and then to blur it with an hanky or a cotton wool stick. :smokin: And yeah, bonzelite is the expert, I wondered how to draw a (colored) realistic explosion of a car. :smokin: Could you help me too?

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you must approach smoke and fire with the vantage point of: what do i NOT do, ie, you must leave the hottest parts, or the smokiest areas, white, untouched. this is watercolor-esque in technique.

then you build around the hot spot(s). also, you must predetermine, somewhat, what parts of the car you will NOT draw to create the smoke f/x, too.

it will make more sense if it is outright shown to you, as well. i can talk all day about it. but actually seeing the technique is invaluable.

You can try www.good-tutorials.com (http://www.good-tutorials.com)... most of the tuts are for computer art, but there may be something there to assist. Once in the site, use their search engine to look for "smoke." Robo

thanks for the replies guys especial bonzelite ill try it but one prob i have no drift pics got any help on finding some?

www.driftsession.com has pics

There is also an event called the D1 GP...I think!

next step once you have lots of smoke references lying around, and have determined where the smoke will be, and what you WILL and what you WILL NOT draw:

get an ad marker. a phat juicy one. dab it onto a piece of toilet paper or tissue. then dab the tissue or whatever onto the paper, creating the "boundaries" and "billows" of the smoke.

all i can tell you is that this takes lots of practice to achieve believable results. it may help to do lots of "test smoke" on scrap paper: do not ruin a great under-drawing by then dabbing on awful and terrible smoke f/x.

eventually, you will have to do it on the actual drawing. so, then, you may ruin it anyway. but remember, smoke is "organic." so you can correct any mistakes by re-directing and redesigining the smoke forms. most people will never know you made a mistake because they will not be able to detect "mistaken" smoke. it is amorphous.

i post again to divide the long advice column:

remember, too, that there is an environment surrounding the car that must be seen through the smoke. so you have a double-duty agenda here: it is not just the car, but the entire field of view, as you cannot really create smoke on a white background very convincingly. rather, interestingly.

the smoke will largely be white or light grey. and if you just put the car on a white field, the smoke may not be very interesting looking.

i am sure somebody can create smoke f/x on a white b/g; i probably could. but, instead, i would opt to create an entire environment for the car to live in, so the smoke will "pop out." do you see what i'm saying?

tire smoke is bluish white/ grey. not black. a car on fire, tires set on fire, gives off black smoke. but this entails rendering fire. fire is more "rendered" than it is drawn.

realistic, convincing fire f/x are not created like pinstriping artists who make "von dutch" type flames. realistic fire is even harder to render than just smoke.

so get lots of references of fire for that. and go out and roast some marshmallows, and stare at the fire for a long time. you must become very intimately studied in fire for your hand and arm to serve you well. i will tell you that any attempts to render fire or water will instantly reveal how weak you are. or strong. which ever is the case.

i will tell you that rendering fire and water is FAR harder than drawing the car. the car is actually the easiest part of drawing the "car with drift smoke" scene.

Or do what I do...

http://img75.exs.cx/img75/9274/driftconcept2cz.jpg

Lots of squiggles and poofs!

:lol: thanks alot guys,bonzelite great you should do a tutorial on this,
also ill do my best on that silvia and post it as soon as im done

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just tell me which position you require and i'll supply the images you want!

about the position of the 2nd 180 but a littel higher

now i dare anybody to actually draw something with smoke.

hahahahahahahahaha.

now i dare anybody to actually draw something with smoke.

hahahahahahahahaha.
o i will muwhahahahahahahahahaha :evillol:

ok. do it in color.

ok. do it in color.
ya...... muuuuuuuuuuuuuuu f@#$ right