wip of friends whip

[lemorris]

sos

blah blah blah

[GirlBear]

Youre just pump'em out. and every 1 looks better than the last. I mean theyre all phenom. makes me wanna do something. But my pc had a major meltdown. Lost everything. Illy pshop gone! Reformated reinstalled xp. try'n 2 find my copies of both.

[lemorris]

well I hope you get back on track soon. It's pretty slow around here. I'm only hangin on for you.

Here's a look at the paths going into this one.



Last time out (the VW Bus) I struggled at this point as I wasn't sure where I was going. I'm not struggling as much this time as though the final destination may not be the ultimate, it is a path (pun intended) I've been down before.

I will be copying parts of this to a new path layer and doing some of the hilite stuff like I usually do in Illy. I'm not entirely sure why but I know that I want to have more selection options done ahead of time this time.

I also plan on doing the greyscale thing and bringing my image into Illy to do things like the Speedwell text on the wheel caps and a couple other things.

The art at this stage seems broken and it can be discouraging like I said, but the careful planning in the line stage should pay off for us when we get to the render bits.

All in all I'm ok with it. It's a nice distractor while I gear up for the next go round of shirt stuff.

-Lemorris

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Great work to start. I'm one of those that would be overwhelm at that level.
I can see where planning plays an important role in this process.

And thanks for helping to keep things alive on here.

[lemorris]

In any case I finally got to some color. This one is really coming along even though it's in these baby spurts....yeah, hold on to that visual and let it soak in...yeah. I made note of something Jeremy Duncan told me about this method. I started to render parts in full on multiple layers then once satisfied I merge them together. When I did the tire I actually rendered over the car body. I then used the car body layer as a selection and subtracted it from the merged tire layers. Really speeds up the process.

I wanted the tires to have a distinct toony rubbery look so I danced a little sky blue across that hot spot on the tread and I think it landed it pretty good for now. Once the drawing is fully rendered I'll go back in and punch some areas out but for tonight's update I'm ok with it.

[Blip]

Originally Posted by lemorris

In any case I finally got to some color. This one is really coming along even though it's in these baby spurts....yeah, hold on to that visual and let it soak in...yeah. I made note of something Jeremy Duncan told me about this method. I started to render parts in full on multiple layers then once satisfied I merge them together. When I did the tire I actually rendered over the car body. I then used the car body layer as a selection and subtracted it from the merged tire layers. Really speeds up the process.

Interesting drawing technique, I do a similar style in Espression, drawing/color filling full shapes "objects" in overlapping layers. Don't do a substraction or layer merge, instead just slam all layers together when saving the finished vector design as a jpg file. I often use "erased" or transparent objects in the upper body layer for see thru windows effect, and if I merged some vector layers before converting, than the "erased" effect continues thru any lower objects.
But as a PS technique, I can see how that would save time, may have to make another stab at coloring with PS.

I wanted the tires to have a distinct toony rubbery look so I danced a little sky blue across that hot spot on the tread and I think it landed it pretty good for now. Once the drawing is fully rendered I'll go back in and punch some areas out but for tonight's update I'm ok with it.

The tires have a very toony look--well done.

[lemorris]

last nights update

had a party to attend so I didn't get much time

[GirlBear]

Originally Posted by lemorris

last nights update

had a party to attend so I didn't get much time

Dude... Lookin sweet!

[lemorris]

thanks GB



I put a tute on my site covering this method. It takes about 30 seconds to launch so be patient

http://www.dhphut.com/pathsrender/pa...ender1_fnl.htm

note: some people are pretty mad at me for sharing this but I think we all grow through sharing so enjoy

-Lemorris

[GirlBear]

God f-ing dmn it. Thats what i said to myself when looked at this. The shadow on the rim. the dark blue sky reflection on the lip, pops. this is gonna b great. i cant wait. haha i love reflections as you probably know. when i see some one capture it like this. im siked. this totally reminds me of these hotrod t-shirts my mom used to buy me. when i was a little kid.they were iron ons. you pick'em out of a binder. they iron it on with a big iron press thing. oh, memories.

[lemorris]

that was pretty funny

CARtoons magazine had iron-ons. It was where I was first published. I miss it big time.

Here's an update...close look again



thanks for the kind words

[GirlBear]

Originally Posted by lemorris

that was pretty funny

CARtoons magazine had iron-ons. It was where I was first published. I miss it big time.

Here's an update...close look again



thanks for the kind words

Yes, CARtoons too. I remember that. My Mom would buy my brother and I HotRod and Cartoons when ever we went grocery shopping.
This is lookin sweet. did i say that already?

[lemorris]

[lemorris]

[GirlBear]

Wow!