new stuff

[Mshkttck]

*gasp* you.. you... CHEATED! shunn him....

jk

The VW logo seems to be a little... um... what's the word... flat?

The logo is too perfect, and it has no angle. If you remove the rest of the rim, it looks like it's facing you directly. The center line of the logo needs to be moved rearward a little.

Otherwise, it's PERFECT

[lemorris]

lol

when I move it to photoshop and render those things get added.

no color in Illy just line. PS makes the magic.

Remember it's kinda toony so reality doesn't carry much weight on this one. The client is the VW dealer in town so seeing their logo straight is good for them.

Thanx for the input.

-Lemorris

[lemorris]

p.s. filter distort spherize in PS just slightly on the logo will wrap it nicely. That's why the logo is on it's own Illy layer.

oh yeah one more thing.

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com is art submitted by artists. What most do is find the logos they want then put them on the car. When you get race car jobs with all those stickers that the customer is very very picky about you will thank whomever you thank that brands of the world is there...trust me.

There are also several cds of clipart logos you can purchase. many Illustrators store files and files of logos.. Saves time....and time is money...believe me.

lol

-Lemorris

[lemorris]

hoggin my own post again

I'll stop here

[lemorris]

savin the PS stuff for this weekend.

Toureag up next.



Oh...blue will be black except on fenders and red is highlight shadow areas. To lay them in I printed out my line then penciled in some shapes scanned it and then traced the shapes in Illy.

Still got some tweaks but it has possibilities.

-Lemorris

[Black Dak]

Nice! Such clean draftsmanship when you use vectors eh? Can't wait to see the finished work!
I found brands of the world a while back, it's been a life-saver for sure. I use it a LOT for race cars.

[lemorris]

I'll render my vectors in Photoshop in channels and have my separations for screenprinting already done. This may never be printed but I can sell the seps somewhere else.

[GirlBear]

very nice. you are very technical. i like that.

[lemorris]

Thanks all

take notes here comes the fun stuff:

Decided to render the NB tonight. I figured I worked on the lineart last night...I deserve a reward!...right?

Anyway in this capture you can see I'm in PS now and I got a few channels set up. One is just blackline only. Then blackline and selection araeas, and the third is black tones. I did add a 4th so I could start to add some greys. Once again I'm using a limited pallet cause i hope to get my customer to print these on shirts as well as in magazines or whatever...(you can never have too many VW shirts...that's a rule)

anyway here's render pic 1.



oh I made the grill guts by drawing a rounded corner square in Illy then rotating it 90 degrees. Then I squashed it a tad with the scale tool and then made a duplicate copy of it behind it. I moved the duplicate down and over and grouped everything. Then I made a copy of the grill shape and used it to mask off the grill pattern. Masking is awesome!! You can make things fit into places they wouldn't normally. Also works magic on hilights.

Just FYI

-Lemorris

[lemorris]

select area on selection channel, expand 1 pixel or so click color channel then airbrush fill or whatever.

goodtimes

[ghetto7o2azn]

ive been working with ps for over a year and sadly i still dont kno how to use channels...

[lemorris]

no sweat ghetto7o2azn,

you can apply the same methods to layers.

I choose channels cuz I want to be like Jeri

http://www.motorsportsillustrated.com

If I was rendering in layers with a limited pallet I would define the colors ahead of time and maybe set my swatches on a layer so I could select colors with the eye dropper and then render that way.

Jeri has a couple great tutorials on how to do what I'm doin. If she can teach a lunk head like me I know she can teach a sharp tack like all the folks on this board.

-Lemorris

[lemorris]

this is it for the night...wanted to get further but I need to go clean the pool so...

[Black Dak]

That's gorgeous! Very precise and clean - me likes!!

[knightvision]

Umm... lemorris there's one question I'd like to ask... I saw high performance racing New Beetle yesterday, I used to hate these cars but this one looked really cool, huge rims, lowered, diffusor with included chrome exhausts, huge wing but no "tuning look" just "racing style". Do you, as a '58 Beetle driver accept those New Beetles? i rather thought you would not.

Great illustration by the way!!