WIP Thread: Enzo

Hey guys! So its a new week and I've got nothing but time until later in the week so I figured I would start on a new drawing. I'm going with the Edo Competition Enzo this time around. Continuing with the Ferrari theme for a bit longer but going modern. Also, being asked a couple time to show some in-progress shots, I thought it'd be a good chance to do so. This one should turn out as good as the California and the Weisman if not better.

So, these shots are 1. The rough outline of the drawing to be and 2. The tools of the trade. I'll be sure to keep you posted accordingly as I go, maybe a couple detail shots with some hints and/or tips? I dunno. I don't think of myself as a teacher and don't think I have teacher skills so if I sound at all rediculous through this, then let me know haha!

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As you can see I don't spend any money on drawing supplies. I get a pack of 7 mechanical pencils for a couple bucks at staples, $2.49 for a pack of 5 erasers from Shoppers Drug Mart because its literally 40 steps from my apartment building, sandpaper which is like $0.69 a sheet which I cut into 4 pieces to clean off my blending stumps, which are like $7 for a full pack which lasts me 3 or 4 drawings. Bristol Vellum Smooth paper, 20 sheets for $17.99 I think to round out the list.

Updates to come!

excellent; I am happy to learn new things from another artist. This ought to be very educational....

Alright fellas, I had some time to get some more Enzo done today, snapping a couple pictures as I went.

This first one is just showing the windshield about 95% finished. The last 5% is just taking a minute to check if the shades are right, the blends are smooth, and the lines are where they should be. Most important thing to remember is not to rush your drawings. I spend usually 20-30 hours on a picture and I've learned to use ALL that time addressing the little things and details so they're right.

One question I had was something like "what can I do to make it look more photo-realistic?" Well, when I see a drawing that looks like a photo, it has everything you would expect to see in a photo. Every little line, bump, hole, tone, etc. To make something seem realistic, it has to have everything that would make it realistic (ie. all the details).
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This second image is an important step I think. It all starts with a quick shading with the mechanical pencil just to fill the area. You can clearly see the "using a blending stump" and "not using a blending stump" areas. Take down this note fellas...when I discovered the power of a blending stump, it was the 5th best discovery of my life. I'll say that because of a couple non-PG-13 things I've discovered and I'm sure there were a couple better discoveries I've made along the way too.

So then, quick shade to get the area filled it, then the blending stump. To make it smooth, press firmly enough and go in small circles. Like you're waxing a little car or something, haha. Every little bit, clean off your blending stump (I didn't just want to say to clean off your stump because 1. drawing is fun, but not THAT exciting, and 2. don't mix drawing and private activities) and keep on going.
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And the last, again is most of the area done except that last 5%. A few edges to clean up, some tone matching/blending to make it perfect, little things here and there. Don't be afraid of using your eraser either. I use it just as much as my pencil. I actually use my blending stump WAY more than the pencil, and the eraser is a close 3rd for sure. Keep a bunch of erasers around, cut them in little chunks so you've got sharp corners and/or edges and clean up the highlights, use them to make edges clean and straight. Standard stuff. So here is the last photo for now with more to come.
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Let me know how this is going so far guys, it'd be wicked to hear some feedback! Peace out.

Wha wha What? Wow! Im diggin this. I find drawing 2b my #1 source of excitment. lol

so far it's great

easy to understand and helpful info

thanks for doing this

-Lemorris

yer great start ,

just a tip you may wanna share what grade pencils you use aswell :)

Great stuff, never have used a blending stump so you're opening a new world for me.

Thanks for the feedback guys. To answer your inquiry about the pencils I use...I use just one. A mechanical pencil, a blue one with this particular drawing. I used a yellow one for the Ferrari California picture.

Wonderful job there!
It's great to see the progress!
I'm guessing---the outlined is eyeballed from a pic onto your vellum

We are always looking for decent cheap .5 mechanical pens--I think we eat them--so we're off tho Shoppers--don't forget the Optimum card!!

Looking forward to more posts it's looking great--and the hints of cutting up your erasers is priceless!

Round three!

Its a small update, but I think this is one of the key parts that I take my pride in. The details! So this first image is the general outline/shape of that blank Ferrari badge from the second post. Now, you can see its pretty basic but the lower right side, the bottom, and a bit of the left side have a kind of drop shadow effect going on. This is for the simple fact that in real life, that little emblem is slightly set into the metal or in this case the carbon fiber, creating the light to make the shadow accordingly.
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This second photo is the rough outline of the prancing horse and the letters "S" and "F" in the logo. Also, straight forward but a little hint...draw out the shapes of the highlighted areas then work around those. When you get to the shading, think of them as somewhere you don't want your pencil to stray into. Like an inside out game of Operation. I hope everyone knows what I'm talking about...
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As you can see in this next photo, the horse now looks like the game Operation, which is what you want. But still...don't go in there.
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This next one is a close-up of my blending stump which in this case, I want to be clean and pointy. A clean and pointy stump is crucial...fellas. Well, you know. I've also done the light shading in the logo background and ready to blend with ma stump!
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Lastly, take a step back, or hold out your lovely work at arms length to check for the tones again, make sure lines are clean and highlights look like highlights. This particular part isn't done yet because the left side of the emblem doesn't quite look like its protruding a bit from the flat body panel. A light shade along the side should do the trick!
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So there we go. This is obviously taking me longer than usual to draw a picture but I like you guys, so why not. I'm enjoying this so far and I hope you guys are too. I was a bit slack the last 2 days because I got lazy yesterday, and today I was out at a graphic design job interview for most of the day.

More to come!

You're making us proud there Toronto!

awesome

2 questions:

How do you clean a stump?

and

How do you make it pointy again?

cool stuff

ahhh yes of course. I should have mentioned. The sandpaper is for cleaning the stumps. Just use the sandpaper on the end of the stump like you're peeling a carrot. It will take all the graphite off the end of the stump and you can scrape it accordingly to make it sharp again.

Thanks again for sharing, in such detail, your techniques and tricks.
This is a gold mine for any pencil artist.

Hello again all!

I got around to doing a bit more today so I'll put up a couple pictures. Not much to explain about these couple. I just used my regular techniques as mentioned above to do the rough line work, the shading, the erasing and so on. So here we are, the side windows are complete and now I'm moving onto the door and lower bodywork.
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Sorry about the quality of this one. My camera lens is dirty so I need lots of natural light in the daytime to pull off a good picture. I think you can get whats going on though.
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The feedback is awesome guys too guys! Thanks for taking a look and I for sure look at all the other new posts you guys are putting up. Lots of wicked work.

More to come!

Good evening! Just another quick update on the progression of the Enzo. I've been sloooooooooow getting this one done but my deadline is the end of the month which I should be able to do easily enough.

I just want to add a little tip or trick I like to use and it involves the mechanical pencil. If you're going for detail, like I've mentioned, use a mechanical pencil. It can shade, it can do the small stuff and so on, but one big thing I like is that it never needs to be sharpened...to a certain point (pardon the pun, I know I know a bad one...). If you're shading a bunch it will get rounded quickly which makes for some not-so-crisp lines for the detailed bits. The beauty of the mechanical pencil is that to sharpen the lead, give the old girl a little click then break the end off...two more clicks then push it in a half click or wherever you want it and you've got a nice edge on the lead again for making tiny, tiny lines or getting into tight spaces.

Thats how I get my tiny details anyway. I hope someone can put that to good use sometime, it would tickle my ticklish bits.

More updates to come!
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Last post for this WIP everyone!

So I'm going to show you how I do mesh, and in this case its the mesh in the huge air intake on the side of the enzo.

So first, not all of the mesh is visible because of shadows so I filled in the dark areas when you won't be able to see it. Then...this is one of the few time I use a ruler...make the lines for the mesh. Note however, that these lines are not the mesh, but are used as a guideline for the mesh. In other words, the mesh is going to be negative space.
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As you can see in this next photo I've started to shade in the dark areas stopping before the next ruler line with enough space to make the white line that is the mesh. Understandable I hope. You're basically coloring in all around the mesh by shading the black.
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Now that this is all finished....
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...there is an air scoop that is inside the big air inlet that goes right to the air box. This can be seen a little bit so just take your blending stump and shade it in and be careful to avoid the mesh for now.
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In this next photo, it looks like I just went over the whole thing with the stump to make everything darker. I didn't shade it all in at first, just so I could make sure the air scoop was good to go, then shade it a bit darker so when you do shade the mesh, its not as dark...but its subtle in there as well.
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083128_8190.jpg

Now you're done that little part, take a step back and check out how it looks.
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083129_8483.jpg

Continue on through the last little bit, do some touch-ups and the main part...your signature. They make the picture worth money when you're dead and gone...but really, if you sell your art, chances are that a couple of thousand people will eventually see it and see a name. Might lead to bigger and better things.
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083130_8770.jpg

Thanks everyone for following this, I enjoyed it as well. It didn't turn out quite as good as the California and the Weisman but I think thats because of the large blank spots in the body work. Its not quite as detailed as the others. I'm still more than happy with the result though. Now I need a new one to draw.....

beautiful and beautiful not much more to be said man ,great tutorial aswell .

that's a great piece

I learned some stuff

thanks for doing that

Thanks again for sharing the details.
It's amazing what you can do with a pencil and the blending stump.

Just excellent. Great tutorial and great detail on a fabulous sketch. Thank you so much for sharing your step by step progress with us and the explanations of how you achieve certain effects.

Hey guys, not a problem! Thanks for all the comments and compliments too.

Last post for this WIP everyone!

So I'm going to show you how I do mesh, and in this case its the mesh in the huge air intake on the side of the enzo.

So first, not all of the mesh is visible because of shadows so I filled in the dark areas when you won't be able to see it. Then...this is one of the few time I use a ruler...make the lines for the mesh. Note however, that these lines are not the mesh, but are used as a guideline for the mesh. In other words, the mesh is going to be negative space.
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083123_6678.jpg

As you can see in this next photo I've started to shade in the dark areas stopping before the next ruler line with enough space to make the white line that is the mesh. Understandable I hope. You're basically coloring in all around the mesh by shading the black.
http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083124_6969.jpg

Now that this is all finished....
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083126_7556.jpg

...there is an air scoop that is inside the big air inlet that goes right to the air box. This can be seen a little bit so just take your blending stump and shade it in and be careful to avoid the mesh for now.
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083127_7847.jpg

In this next photo, it looks like I just went over the whole thing with the stump to make everything darker. I didn't shade it all in at first, just so I could make sure the air scoop was good to go, then shade it a bit darker so when you do shade the mesh, its not as dark...but its subtle in there as well.
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083128_8190.jpg

Now you're done that little part, take a step back and check out how it looks.
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083129_8483.jpg

Continue on through the last little bit, do some touch-ups and the main part...your signature. They make the picture worth money when you're dead and gone...but really, if you sell your art, chances are that a couple of thousand people will eventually see it and see a name. Might lead to bigger and better things.
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2065/13/102/501443384/n501443384_2083130_8770.jpg

Thanks everyone for following this, I enjoyed it as well. It didn't turn out quite as good as the California and the Weisman but I think thats because of the large blank spots in the body work. Its not quite as detailed as the others. I'm still more than happy with the result though. Now I need a new one to draw.....

Very, very nice, but I have a q: how do you get such sharp edges on your shadows?

To answer your question Suprageex, its easy to do with a mechanical pencil when you break off the end. The lead after you break it can make very sharp hard lines which is what I use to go along the outside of where the sharp edge has to be. Also, for straight lines, I put a piece of paper along the edge then use an eraser along the piece of paper.

Its like if you want to spray paint a hard edge, you use cardboard or tape to cover the part that you don't want to be sprayed. Understand? I can post some pictures to show you in detail if you want.

Also, with the hard edges, a sharp edged eraser is your best friend.

To answer your question Suprageex, its easy to do with a mechanical pencil when you break off the end. The lead after you break it can make very sharp hard lines which is what I use to go along the outside of where the sharp edge has to be. Also, for straight lines, I put a piece of paper along the edge then use an eraser along the piece of paper.

Its like if you want to spray paint a hard edge, you use cardboard or tape to cover the part that you don't want to be sprayed. Understand? I can post some pictures to show you in detail if you want.

Also, with the hard edges, a sharp edged eraser is your best friend.
okay, thanks!!!:grinyes:
MAybe one day i'll be your level :D

Very nice, great work on keeping the shading consistent. Will be looking forward to more of your work.

Wow... I'm learning so much... and the Enzo is fantastic... thanks. Roboduck

:)

you thanked yourself

Omg. Thats awesome. I never seen that. It is professional work. you have a gold hand. you draw very nice. 1 question is how you do that very nice shadows and other colors with pencil. i can't do it i draw about 5 hours and i cant learn it. So damn. I don't know how to learn this. :banghead: what you use? for that shadows? they are stuning. look at my rubish :banghead: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5761/imguv5.jpg i can't do better shadows. i am very angry please help me. If you can't so it's ok but your drawing is stuning . top class :wink: sorry my english is very bad and i dont understand it very well.

Good luck .

Omg. Thats awesome. I never seen that. It is professional work. you have a gold hand. you draw very nice. 1 question is how you do that very nice shadows and other colors with pencil. i can't do it i draw about 5 hours and i cant learn it. So damn. I don't know how to learn this. :banghead: what you use? for that shadows? they are stuning. look at my rubish :banghead: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5761/imguv5.jpg i can't do better shadows. i am very angry please help me. If you can't so it's ok but your drawing is stuning . top class :wink: sorry my english is very bad and i dont understand it very well.

Good luck .


Well first off, thanks for your kind words. I appreciate you liking my work. You said you drew for around 5 hours and couldn't get it right. I usually spend between 20 and 40 hours on a drawing, depending on the size and level of detail. Also, if I were to add all the hours I spent drawing and sketching, it would for sure be in the thousands! I know I'm only 22 years old but I've been drawing most of my life.

The only thing I can tell you to do is practice, practice, and practice. Its the same with any other person who is great at what they do. Time invested is the best thing you can do.

Also, I just use one pencil when I draw, a 0.7mm mechanical pencil and blending stumps. Its all at the beginning of this post.

Again, thanks for the compliments and keep drawing my friend!

-Warren Keefe

I am finding this to be very interesting, as a newbie I will become a regular here. www.KarKosmeticsLLC.com

Woah i've been away for some time and damn have i been missing it all! This drawing is spectacular, i now don't like my enzo drawing.

Bravo!