Another VW design

part of this dyno on the beach thing I'm doin.

http://www.dhphut.com/images/dynobeach_7.jpg

I'll post the final too.

-Lemorris

Looks cool. Now is that a whale tail on the back of that Ghia?

That is insanity on wheels!!!!

A Super Mod Ghia.

Very cool. Super pencil work too!

Actually, I had a ride in a '67 Ghia convertible just yesterday, although it looked nothing like your reference material, Mr. Lemorris!

BG

Nice. I was excited when i saw this 1. When i was a lil kid my uncle had 1 of these. He had many awesome cars back then. He was a CEO of some company in Germany. But I remember he payed special attention to me because we shared the love for cars. When ever he bought a new/used-new car i got the 1st ride. Of couse his was stock. And used I think. lol

Niiice!!! Ey, lemoris when are going to do the mk1 rocco??:iceslolan

nice start lem you have some detailed flame work ahead of you lol

i have a question for you as i think you may be using the same pencil ,i saw on an episode of wrecks to riches the artist on there used a blue style pencil to do his linework ,i think you also use it ?? can you give me the name of it and the company who use it please it looks easier to erase and use for some reason ?????

thanks mate :0

confession

I added a layer above my pencil work in photoshop, filled it with a blue color then set it's layer mode to color...makes the pencil look blueline...artists dig it so I do it just to be cool...alas I am exposed as the fraud that I am. :)

since I'm in a confessing mood I might as well tell you that I did a similar thing to make this grey. I saw another artist present his comps like this and it occurred to me that clients would dig it. many times clients don't understand non-reproduction blue (which is the term you're looking for. Non repro blue pencils used to be used a lot more back in the days of film positives and cell based animation...search Dick Blick you'll find many Stadtler (spelling) was one I liked)...umm...oh...clients...clients see the color blue and think things are going to be blue. As I found out from looking and showing jeremy's comps the grey says sketch to the non artists...they seem to understand that it is a work in progress and that there will be colors and stuff. Plus it's nice to have the tonal match.

How?

I dropped in my pencil stuff and moved things around to where I dug'em then I drew the circles and did the text in black in Illustrator. Once my comp was done the text stuff was black and some of my pencil was blue (shame face) and some was pencil. So I saved it as a jpg file then opened it in photoshop.

In photoshop I double-clicked the background layer to unlock it then clicked on the channels pallet. On the bottom of the channels pallet there's this circle looking bursty thing. I clicked that. it slects all the white pixels of whatever is showing. My daughter showed me that.

Then I went back to my layers and created a new layer above my unlocked background and I selected shift + I or select-inverse. So now I have a selection that represents everything not white. Then I filled that selection (alt + backspace) with a color. doesn't matter..lets say orange.

then on the layers pallet theres this thing with little checkerboard llokin squares near the top. It locks the transparency on that layer (my daughter taught me that one). then you can alt + backspace or fill any color on that layer and it only adds the color where there is pixel information which is everything not white in this case.

Then I added a new layer and selected all and filled it white. Then moved that layer between my unlocked background and my grey toned non white pixel information.

whew

anyway

http://www.dhphut.com/images/dynobeach_12.jpg

I did dup the grey and erase to punch up the light pencil lines. I should have pre adjusted but I lacked forethought, plus I cheated on the non-photo blue.

:)

thanks for your honest ,in depth description ,tips and name of the pencil and style you sir are too kind :)

its starting to look great mate and its really taking shape keep it coming....