Some new work; Dodge D100

[city_ofthe_south]

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t201/city_ofthe_south/dodge_D100.jpg
67 Dodge on Rushforth Fuels. Custom stuff includes, grille, closing the grille and hood gap, some deletes, flush front and rear glass, slight modification and reconfiguration of side glass (vent deletes and changing the angle of the upper portion of the glass and sheet metal where they meet), Frenched tail lights, mirrors etc. I believe it is planned to ride on Vette suspension. Out of four color options this was the chosen one. Ai 9.0. I'm gonna see if I can find the build thread over at pro-touring and I'll post the link if you guys are interested.

[SRD Art]

I always thought these trucks were a bit on the doofy looking side, but you made it look sweet. I'd like to see the build, I love to see odd rods done well.


Dude, you gotta upgrade to at least CS2. I went from 9 to CS2 early last year, picked up a new upgrade package for $150. I thought the price was fair at the time. May the universe bless whoever came up with live trace! I don't use it for the cars themselves but it can help make some wicked cool backgrounds and it makes it all cake to print on T's and such.

[city_ofthe_south]

I always thought these trucks were a bit on the doofy looking side, but you made it look sweet. I'd like to see the build, I love to see odd rods done well.


Dude, you gotta upgrade to at least CS2. I went from 9 to CS2 early last year, picked up a new upgrade package for $150. I thought the price was fair at the time. May the universe bless whoever came up with live trace! I don't use it for the cars themselves but it can help make some wicked cool backgrounds and it makes it all cake to print on T's and such.

Thanks man. I wouldn't say it's my favourite truck ever but I think the builder had some nice ideas to bring it up to date and we made them work. Anyway, I like 9.0 simply for the fact that it doesn't have live trace to be honest. I only use radial and linear gradients as well. It's not really that I wanted to be a vector artist, it just sorta went that way so I try to stay faithful I guess .... or something like that. :) Only problem is that Vista doesn't like anything older than CS and eventually I'll end up having to use Vista. My brother has been for a while already. *insert eye rolling at Microsoft here*

[DVierstra]

O'Dell,

You did this truck right! Nice work on cleaning up the look of this ugly duckling. I too like to see these odd trucks and cars done well!



I always thought these trucks were a bit on the doofy looking side, but you made it look sweet. I'd like to see the build, I love to see odd rods done well.


Dude, you gotta upgrade to at least CS2. I went from 9 to CS2 early last year, picked up a new upgrade package for $150. I thought the price was fair at the time. May the universe bless whoever came up with live trace! I don't use it for the cars themselves but it can help make some wicked cool backgrounds and it makes it all cake to print on T's and such.


I have CS3 and the live trace is really sweet for doing cool backgrounds!
Now CS4 is out!!!

[city_ofthe_south]

I hear ya. I'll break down one day. I'm just stubborn and difficult. Anyway, thanks for the complements guys. Here is the link to pro-touring.
http://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47212

[city_ofthe_south]

Damn I forgot to add that we flipped the bumper upside down, obviously got rid of the rear bumper, and did a little late model styling in the tail gate.

[NOVA]

Thats cool!
I like the unusual looking stuff, I'm looking at a 62 ford econoline panel van, there so homily there cool!

[tahoe_185]

way cool. i agree with using the older versions of Illustrator too. i think using an older version of AI forces the user to be more artistic (i.e; transparency was unavailable in anything before AI10)

[ratty 46]

I wasn't a fan of this body style until I saw your rendering....nice clean up. I could dig this.

Ratty 46

[city_ofthe_south]

I wasn't a fan of this body style until I saw your rendering....nice clean up. I could dig this.

Ratty 46

Dang! I'm happy you like it that much. :)

I do enjoy the challenge of older software but the truth is, I cut my teeth on even older versions of Ai than 9.0 and have been drawing cars this way for so long that it's just sort of my way. I'm sure I've said it before and I'm sure you guys know the feeling but I have 3 or 4 life times worth of hobbies. I mean, I spend most of my time drawing cars because that's what I want to do professionally, but prolly 50% of my "free time" is spent doing stuff that isn't even related to cars. Seems like it takes a lot to feed that need to create stuff and I'm always looking for something else to do it. Anyway, I can just picture me getting CS3 or something and I'll still be scribbling with my pencil on a piece of paper, drawing all my shapes with the pen tool and pulling standard gradients to render. I have PS CS2 but the pen tool sucks compared to Ai ... vectoring in general with PS is awkward for me and my brain isn't geared for layers which is the main reason I use Ai. Or the other way around ... I learned to use Ai without layers, therefore it's hard for me to get used to them. I mean 10 or 15 layers is fine, but I use hundreds of shapes to draw a car. I dunno. OK time to shut up.

[SRD Art]

I agree to an extent too. I still use PS 6.0 (!) because I like the control I have with the airbrush tool. For what I use it for, I don't see upgrading that until I have to. I used to mainly sketch by hand then bring it into photoshop to illustrate my cars. Now I've discovered AI's usefulness to trace my hand sketches with the pen tool, do a general coloring there and then bring it into PS for the final touchs up and bling. I held off getting CS2 for AI for a long time but now I'm glad I did. I bet I cut my drawing time down 6-8 hours per drawing by starting in AI.

I was googling the web today just looking at vector art and I think a lot of folks are using live trace and passing it off as art. That's lame. But, I also saw some unbelievable vector art accompanied with the wire frames and wow! Just because you can doesn't mean you have to use live trace type stuff. I use it primarily for background effects, grundge look on T-shirt designs, and to recreate some fork's logos for screen printing. It's a cool tool once you get the hang of it. I see your thoughts though, I'm stubborn about my PS 6. :lol:

[city_ofthe_south]

I think as digital artists we get pulled from both sides (why am I going on about this I have no idea? This is what happens when I get bored at work.) ... anyway. There are traditionalists who shun digital art and spend all their time trying to get someone to buy their intellectual property. Those folks don't prolly consider the fact that we are traditional artists to some degree or another as well. We all scribbled from the time we were little. But then there is the "time is money" factor. We've chosen to make money doing this by helping other people visualize their ideas and finding that middle ground is the goal. But, I'm all for time savers, no doubt. cityofthesouth, the great philosopher :rolleyes:

[SRD Art]

I know for myself, there came a point when I didn't see any benefit to hand drawn art anymore. Nothing wrong with it and I commend those that still do it that way, AND I think everybody that wants to draw cars should have to do them well by hand first to learn the basics. But, at least for me, no more smudges, no more bad marker strokes, no more spilled ink, no more dried up markers, no more wrinkled paper, no more eraser induced tears/wrinkles, no more crayon kid's art on a 30 hour project when I turn my back, etc. etc. I'm pretty good with the markers I think but there's no way I can do some of the stuff I do in the computer with 'em. Oh and did I mention the benefits of control Z? :lol:

You don't have to use a brush or pencil to be an artist although I admire all who do. It's a bit of a shame, we live in such a fast paced world that "nobody" (not many anyhow) carves furniture by hand anymore, "nobody" paints signs on walls by hand anymore, "nobody" uses a camera that you have to adjust everything for the shot anymore, but technology has opened up a whole new world of what can be done. Remember when you could get Cragar S/S or Keystone Classics and that was about it? Dang, there are companies out there now that let you design your own wheel and they carve it out of Billet as long as you got the cash. I say that's a good thing.

-Junior Apprentice Philosopher,

[city_ofthe_south]

control Z pretty much sums it up for me. I don't "draw" anything anymore either. A sketch or two is as far as I get before I start trying to find the preset control Z button on my mechanical pencil. NO! I DON'T WANT ANY MORE LEAD, I WANT TO UNDO!!!! WHAT KIND OF BUTTON IS THIS?!?!

[SRD Art]

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