first attempt

[Zwofurti]

at drawing a car in watercolor and a fine black marker..
the interior is made in graphite..
turned out.. pretty much as SHIT! it went ugly, dont try watercolor boys

its kinda quick, took me about 2,5 hrs..

[castback]

well with water color being the hardest thing to work with (in my eyes) you did a good job.

i wouldn't say not to try water color. it isn't something that you can pick up and do. it is basically tryin' to controle the water....if you can figure that out then youve got it (for the most part)

[Zwofurti]

yeah its really hard to work with, just wanted to try it=) but the car went ok beside the color.. but it actaully looks pretty ok on my wall, when looking at it some meters away..

[KustmAce]

Infinitely better than I could do with water color!

[Zwofurti]

thnx, anyone who made a carpainting in watercolor?

[castback]

i haven't made a car with water color but i have made a bunch of other stuff

[Zwofurti]

show me!=)

[castback]

lol....i think i might have the last one. but i threw out all the old ones. they were from a while ago. il try to look for em.

[castback]

ok i did one kinda quick. its up in the other art/non-auto art sticky

[Ra_15]

Looks pretty good! It looks like you nailed the colours. The only thing wrong is some of the wobally lines.

I can't paint very well...yet, but I'll have to give it a go someday.

[ImolaEK]

Looks really kew. I once did a Honda Civic in watercolor. It went off fine just that the paper wrinkled because of the water. This was a year or so ago. I posted it here somewhere.

[lemorris]

My wife is awesome with watercolors ( http://www.caroleaharris.com )and as her better half (joke) I feel qualified to offer advice.

Keep kleenex or paper towels handy. You can lay down a color wet on wet and as it starts to set, but before is starts to hold dip a corner of the paper towel in it, and watch the excess magically disappear.

For rendering cars with hard edges you might find a jar of liquid mask useful. You can appliy the liquid mask and then do many of the same marker techniques you see on this board. Use a rubber cement eraser to pick it up after it dries.

Try using a cold press illustration board. It isn't as smooth as hot press but it has a graet tooth and as long as you are not soaking the entire area it will perform well. In order to stop warping use some packing tape and secure the h-e-double toothpicks out of it on to a large drawing borad, or formica or whatever.

Start slow, and light...remember you can build layers of color in wash fashion. I know a great coloring technique in Photoshop by which you make selections and use a color mode to build hues in 15% or lower increments. You can render color into a pencil drawing and have it come out with all the spontanaity of the pencil line still in place. You can achieve the same effect with watercolors...take your time.

Invest in some good brushes. Art supplies is one of those areas where you get what you pay for. A good set of brushes will serve you well for many years.

Last but not least...ABBA my wife listens to them when she paints, and it makes me want to vomit, but her work comes out great.

There you go.

out.....

-Lemorris

[SeCrEtMoDdEr]

wow, i guess its true that people on this forum know how to do just about anything