Sup, New to the forums, but just wanted to post some cars I've drawn. They were done in Adobe Illustrator. 2 Layers per car. The motorcycle was a pain, but the ending result was well worth it (To many stressing hours over every nut and bolt). You can see a sample portfolio of my work at www.runeart.com. Tell me what you think

David

i think they are incredably awesom!! great job!:)

You have Illustrator mastery, wizardry no doubt.
:eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

al

Very nice indeed. Now I've got to do a new rendering...I'm slacking over herre. :rolleyes:

Great job. Very realistic. Great attention to detail too...

To be honest, I couldn't see they weren't real at first sigth.. Very realistic, I can't understand how you can make these.. Only tried Illustrator once, was too hard for me :) Keep on working.. hehe

its great the motorcycle is amazing
very realistic keep up the good work!

Another one I forgot

Dude, you are good, real good.

So why don't you write a tutorial for us?
:)

Oh and welcome to our forum glad you are here.

al

That is seriously amazing!!!!!!! I especially love the GTO :eek:

oh man... they are sweet. how about posting some more eh??

keep up the great work :)

I love the bike the most!!
how long did u spend on that thing?

The Bike...*Shakes Head*...that bike took me forever, just cause I had to have every detail, every hole in the rotors...every nut and bolt...The bike took a good 4 days or so. The cars only take a couple hours

the viper is incredible!
amazing job!

I downloaded Illustrator off Kazaa, and it works alright, but I can't upload pics onto it. It says that it cannot recognize the file type. I have experimented with gif's, jpg's, etc... It WILL NOT WORK!!!!!!! I am getting frustrated, and I REALLY want to get into cell-shading cars and stuff like you do. PLEASE HELP!?!

Heh, not to sound like a prick or nothing. But it is pirated software that you're using, and I'm sure we all know pirated software that people download from Kazaa isn't always gonna work right. My advice, find a legit copy, or try to download another version/rip of the software.

In Harmony
David

Ok, I took your advice and picked up a (legal) copy of illustrator, set me back a couple hundred bucks. Now, I already have photoshop, and I'm really used to it. There are a lot of major differences with it, and I just can't get the knoack of illustrator. Ya think you could help me a bit? I mostly have trouble filling in gradients, and colors. and the pen tool is really weird when you are used to photoshop. think you could help me a bit???

I'm gonna try to describe this the best I can without actually being there. When you just click with the pen tool without dragging you should see something like Figure A. But when you click and drag you line now has "Handles" (See Figure B.) The handles can be adjusted with the white arrow for curve length, size, etc. When you click the pen tool and drag it , then click in another place, you have made a curve (See Figure C.). Any questions? lol

David

Thanks alot.
I have a few more questions. When you outline the car, and you want to shade a certain area, do you need to make a complete new shape around the area you want to color, or is there some tool to just select parts? It seems like I have to go over my lines again and again, when I want to shade a part. Tell me if I explained this well enough!

O, and I have these two boxes on my picture, they look like some kinda guide lines, but they aren't actually around the picture. My pen lines sometimes get sucked to them, so it's really annoying. How can I get rid of them?

Answer to question 1: You can either learn to use the gradient tool really well (For this I suggest you talk to YellowDoor) or do what I do and make individual shapes for every shadow/highlight. By doing it this way I can control any shape to shadows I want. After I make one shape I copy and past it in front, adjust it with the white arrows, then shape to shape blend them.

Answer to question 2: Those rectangles around the area represent the printable size. To my knowledge you can't get rid of them. I usually draw all of my images on a tabloid sheet, then make them larger or smaller as need, so that the rectangles don't get in my way.

Feel free to ask anything else

David

Thanks a lot man. I'm just finishing up my first try, it's a civic.

Well don't forget to post it on here, or send me a copy of how it turned out. I'm curious to see

David

I posted it in the S&D forum. You can see it there. Thanks again for all the help!:thumbsup:

Is there a website that gives basic instructions on how to used Adobe Illustrator???

RB26DETT-GTR

Not that I know of but I'll be glad to answer any questions that you might have about the program.

In Harmony,
David

Originally posted by RuneArt
Not that I know of but I'll be glad to answer any questions that you might have about the program.

In Harmony,
David

ok i got a question...how do u start....

RB26DETT-GTR

I love car drawings. I use ink for color and coal for shades+ white chalk for lighter parts.What do you think?
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/167794Opel_Maxx.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/167794BMW_M3-2.JPG

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/167794Lotus_Elise.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/167794Orange_F-50.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/167794Pininfarina_Mythos1.jpg

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/167794Ford-Indigo.jpg

ahh! the links dont work for me! could u possibly upload your art and post it on here instead of posting attachment buttons?

how come none of the links or attachments are working for me?

Same here, and it's not just this thread that does it, I can't view any attachments on any of the threads. Can someone post the pictures normally so we can see them?

It's been a long time since I posted those pics so I'm not exactly sure what I put on them. But here's a lot of cars and stuff that I've drawn.

Questions and comments greatly appreciated

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/uploads/70279/Cars2.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/503/70279Cars.jpg

very cool

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