2nd try

It's a work in progress. Anybody have tips, tricks, suggestions,:2cents:

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/dabels23/generallee.jpg

dark areas should be black not grey, and make it SHINY!!!

dark areas should be black not grey, and make it SHINY!!!

I agree with nicecar. Cut some shiny hilights on there. The drawing looks good.

Not much progress

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r168/dabels23/generallee-1.jpg

not bad, some areas need to be less smooth, so youve got some crisp, uniform lines in there like on the real car. otherwise, carry on!

Thanks for the advice. I'm still tring to get hang of doing this purely on the computer.

For this to be successful you have to flex the same powers of observation that make a traditional painting - drawing successful. You have to look at the highlights and shadows on the source photo you are drawing and reproduce them exactly. If you look at how the CP renderers do it, they meticulously outline every surface detail on the car and then render those details with the pencil tip. It is the same thing with the computer. You just have to practice rendering until you are as comfortable with it as you are with a pencil or brush.

hey thats looks awesome! i agree some of the grey parts might look better black tho.