New Drawing - '76 Trans Am

Well, Lemorris told me to stop lurking and start posting, so here's one I finished a couple of days ago. It's been a while since I've posted any drawings. I included some WIP stages so you guys could see how this one came together.

Medium: Prismacolor pencils on 9x12" Stonehenge paper. Took about 15 - 20 hours in total.


Stage 1: Just the line drawing. As you can see i used the grid method for proportions and so my lines would stay as clean as possible.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3792/1976transamstage1nk6.jpg

Stage 2: Starting to lay down the color. I often do the really detailed stuff later (in this case, the headlights), just so nothing important gets smudged or ruined by accident.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9054/1976transamstage2ew6.jpg


Stage 3: Almost done
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6474/1976transamstage3qq3.jpg


Done! Notice the white gouache paint in key spots, like the hood scoop, front fender, wheels, doorlines. Works great to cover up mistakes :)
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/1723/1976transamstage4finalew3.jpg


Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Alex

Amazing. Truely amazing. Absolutely photorealistic. Aren't the wheels the hardest parts of all?

like always :), amazing.

I don't know what to say. I'm speechless once again. This is like the 5th time ive popped in here to look at this. I figured I'd at least leave a reply tho. AMAZING!!!!!!!!! This is pretty much my favorate drawing of yours so far.
Your God Damned tires are perfect!!

Thats awesome! One of my freinds tried to use gouache and he said it was like acrylic watercolor or something. This is the first time ive seen something actually done with it. Its jawdropping!

Beautiful! B

Nice Alex!

You keep getting better.

wow

Thanks for showing the actual grid as well. Very cool.

-Lemorris

Knightvision: Yeah, the wheels were probably the hardest thing to do on this one, since they had that polished look and the pic was taken under very bright sunlight.

Paintedtrain: gouache is kinda like acrylic, except you can re-wet it once it's on the paper like you can do with watercolor.

Thanks for the replies

Alex

beautiful alex ,nice color choice and very clean as usual,gouache is awsome to create reflections ,ill always use it from now on it ads anothter dimension to the drawing

excellent choice of car.

of course it's damn mint, ie, your rendering. so i won't mention that.

uhh. i just did.

anyway, i love the early to mid 70s T/As. my fave is 71-73.

Hi Alex,
Great work as usual. Do you trace your pencil sketch onto the Stonehenge with regular graphite pencil? I find that you have to be very careful or the colored pencil won't cover the graphite. Keep up the good work. Some times I will redraw my original onto the Stonehenge with a neutral colored pencil that way I don't have to erase as I go.
gbritnell

Alex.. like GirlBear, I keep coming back to look at your marvelous drawings.. the wheels - detail of chrome - is wonderful. You just keep getting better, if that's possible. Robo

bonz: I took that pic at a car show last summer and thought it would make a good drawing.

Gbritnell: For this one i just did the grid and line drawing with a 2H, straight onto the stonehenge. Depending on the color and tone I'm working with, sometimes i don't need to erase the pencil, and if I'm working with lighter colors I just erase as i draw. Your method sounds good though, I'll have to try it sometime.

Alex

Alex, Alex, Alex, you truely are a MASTER! I can not believe the quality of this drawing. Nice choice of a car too.

I always look foreward to your drawings.

G-man422

Alex, I'm just stunned at how well you can create reflective painted metal bodywork
and chrome with pencil color.
Showing the step-by-step just gives me a greater appreciation for your artwork.

AMAZING WORK!! flawless..

Does the doing the grid ever annoy you? I hate doing grid, because it take aaages... and usually i mess it up.

absolutly amazing! looks real, big pontiac fan right here i own a 66 gto

WOW. Almost looks like a photo. Excelent work!!!

man...im fixin to nut all over myself...lol.jk...the only real flaw is the left headlight. it looks too verticle...but it's not even that bad....awesome

Incredible, im at a loss for words

i gatta say u sure know how to master drawings freakin sweet

no seriously, do you EVER screw up?

photorealistic as usual, I bow down to your godliness for I am not worthy:popcorn:

as a matter of fact my Dad owned a '75 Trans-Am

as usuall it looks great alex, keep up the amazing work every time i see your work im inspired to do a colored pic, but i never get around to it

Nice car. Best one ive seen so far. Looks almost like a photo other then the pencil strokes obviously. I checked your site out as well, you are damn good.

How old are you ?
and do you use a computer to make your pictures look like photos?

NICE DRAWING

Just browsing around and had to stop and praise you. Amazing work, you have a gift alright.

As usual Alex, your work draws the most amazing responses. Your work is simply OUTSTANDING.

I enjoyed seeing how you put the drawing together - the simple line drawing in the grid (if my completed sketches were as good as your simple line drawings, I'd die a happy man); the colour fill, the work on reflections and how you build the picture, through to the stunningly detailed finished product.

You are a class act, and work like this just adds to the anticipation we all have when you start a new thread announcing the latest work. Just stunning work Alex, stunning.