ronmatt

here's a glass effect that you may be looking to achieve. I have some custom contours I'll try to attach, just place them in 'presets> contours. they're quite helpful.The base however is all done using blurs, stretching and compressing blurs couldn't send the contours.

leenapink

Here's what I have going so far..I've worked my butt off on this thing.
Having to learn everything new, had to look up the word "render" to know what ronmatt was talking about.lol... So far its been a hoot. This car is 100% mine no tracing or copying a particular car, no manipulating pictures (I don't care if other do, I just wanted to see if "I" could make something from scratch)...! I obvouisly got ideas from other cars..and boy did I want to borrow things from other cars...
I originally made a "red" car but it was a little flat...then I tried layer styles and wow, between Satin and gradients it came to life.. if gave it the glassy look I wanted..the gold gradient was a mistake...out of nowhere it look good, if I say so myself...

Its a thousand time better then I expected!! It really started to came together today...all my reading on how to color comics, airbrushing, ronmatts ideas and peekingrabbits answering my masking issue is starting to make sense...I'm still very lost because some effects I'm not exactly sure how or why they came about...?

I got pretty decent with the pen tool making the lines of the car from my drawing.
It's got tons of issues I hope I can address, but I'm jazzed anyway!!

This is hopefully a work in progress, needs lights and wheels, interior etc...color changing is so easy with gradients that I'll settle on a color later.
Lasa

ronmatt

so far, I'm impressed. The design and the technique at this point is perfect.I'm hoping, for your sake, that the guidelines aren't part of the rendering(?). Now think along these lines. You don''t have to allpy grads etc. to the car directly. you can do them independently and apply them.Keep it up and blow me out of the water.

leenapink

Ronmatt the guidelines aren't part of the rendering but I'm having trouble with it looking right without them...anyway I'm pluging away.
Thanks for the kind words,
Lasa

leenapink

Here's how its put togther...the background layer and then a highlight layer... I'm going to paint it all again...hopefully I learned enough from this test to make it even better...

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ronmatt

here's a hint. once you've got the design, separate it into parts. work on the 'parts' as individual renderings. then re-assemble them. that way , if you're happy with, say ,the body, but not the top, you can save the body and re-work the top until you're happy with it. You can tie everything togetherlater. After assembling and merging, make a copy of the assembled rendering. make the copy a complimentry color and do some hilighting and shadowing on that layer. Then add transparancy to the copy layer. and don't forget, the eraser is a brush too, as important as applying effects is removing them. Take a look at Maxfield Parrishs' work. It's all color removal.

leenapink

Thanks for the nudge..."I'll be back"...
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leenapink

Well I'm back..after hours of work I have nothing to show... |
I'm thinking of putting some lights on this puppy and call it my entery.
I could easily become obsessed with this.. }P

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ronmatt

here's hoping this shows better on imageshack. the compression is unbelievable.

http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/2217/rm27yo.jpg

It's a bit better when you enlarge it.

Lee

I've been working on this little ditty for about.............oh....................fifteen minutes or so. Finally got it done. I think I'm gonna call it an SL55. Pretty cool, huh? It's going to be supercharged with about 500 ponies and do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds. I was thinking of sending it to Mercedes or somebody. Maybe they'll pick it up and actually do a production run. Never hurts to ask.

Whadda think?





Ron, I'm a photographer, not a graphic designer so I had to cheat a little. Hope you don't mind.

Great looking rig by the way. Wish I could do that.