Subaru STI Drawing

[Jumpman_Z]

Hello everyone, I think this is my first time posting one of my car drawings, but I've been visiting this forum a while now. I drew this from some photos that I found in a recent issue of Turbo Magazine. Tell me what you think.

[Ra_15]

pretty nice! just a few perspective issues (the front looks like its on a different angle to the back). But the shading that you have done is allright. Good job for you first .

[SeCrEtMoDdEr]

the lights are a different shape than an sti but it looks good...the first pic is twisted^^like ross said...

and otherwise it's pretty cool.. good job

[bonzelite]

that is great stuff. keep refining your techniques. learn some technical stuff. you're pretty raw. but you have talent.

[Jumpman_Z]

Thanks for the feedback, guys. It really helps me to see my mistakes. I've been drawing for the last 10 years but I didn't really get into cars until about a couple of years ago when I decided that I would like to design them.

Heres a scan of the pics that I was drawings from. It looked alright after I finished it, but after comparing it to the picture again, I can really see how crooked the car looks.

Anyway, my next project will be either a 300ZX or 240Z. Bonzelite, when you said "technical stuff", were you referring to more details?

[bonzelite]

jumpman, i grille everyone about this who seem to hold promise but are rough. technical stuff to me is drawing a setup of the perspective before you even begin with car.

you had a head start with the WRX because the reference picture provides a nice horizon line in the back alreay set up for you.

the drawing you did abandons this, becomes lumpy and twisty and crooked, because you did not create a solid object in foreshortened space for the car to be born from.

[MBTN]

I really like the engine pic.

[lemorris]

Bonzelite: "technical stuff to me is drawing a setup of the perspective before you even begin with car. "

BRILLIANT!!!

Heed these words Jumpman_Z. This guy brings it everyday.

-Lemorris

[bonzelite]

lemorris, you're a mate. thanks.

jumpman, consider the area AROUND the car first, almost constantly, as this is the place that determines where the car is in relation to it's surroundings. this intimacy either dials-in the car, or kills it if you overlook it. "it" is the ground plane, the horizon, the angle of the sun. start with these raw elements and work >>to<< the car.

in other words, do not work the environment around the car to set up the techincal perspective. this is backwards.

for example, lemorris often has a car in a white void. but he does his homework to achieve this: it looks like nothing is of interest in this void. but that is where the primary work is done: even if it is intuitive and not literally drawn out, the draftsman must see an environment to project points within. you must create barriers, walls, lines, planes, reference points, within the seeminly negative space of nothingness.

it is like a musician playing an upright bass with a slab of ebony as the fingerboard: there are no literal lines or barriers, but he intuitively knows, as well as technically, how to impose order upon the blank black fretboard: he makes it sing. he knows scales, modes, keys --all invisible but very real to the listener. drawing is THE SAME.

drawing and music are from the same womb: one uses visual light waves that eyes detect, the other uses audible waves that ears detect. but both disciplines tune into the entire wave spectrum. and there are laws within this spectrum. technical drafting skills are like scales and modes in music theory. i tell you, this is the truth.

jumpman, does any of this speak to you?

[bonzelite]

and another thought: in time, with enough intuition and mileage, you can break the rules and create things in any order you wish.

[Jumpman_Z]

Bonzelite, Lemorris, thanks for clearing that up. Yeah, I have had trouble with perspective for a while. I didn't realize it could affect my car in white void as well. I'm going to pick a car and practice drawing it in different angles and environments.

[bonzelite]

you draw very well, btw, if i have not already said that. that is not really in question.