Click onto the image above to see a 20 step tutorial for this Bricklin SV1. More tutorials can be viewed on the Old School Viscom Facebook page.
Arvind’s got a great video over at DrivenMavens detailing a technique that includes drawing what you see and NOT what you think you know. The technique forces Designers and Artists to reference photographs and real-life situations, purposefully forgetting what we are taught to know about perspective, to get an image to look and feel correct.
Case in point: in real life, we know that everything falls in 3-point perspective. Normally that’s how we draw. For basic Design this is a great start. Photographs, on the other hand, add in an element of fish eye, vantage point, and even emotion that you just can’t capture while looking at a car in a parking lot. By using these as reference, we can better create more emotionally impactful images.
Watch the YouTube vid above, and follow along on DrivenMavens for the full article.
Category : Production Car, Tutorial, Websites
Our good friend Michele Leonello has posted another helpful tutorial for those who are looking to learn the basics of drawing cars. This one employs a simple grey marker technique to depict a classic vehicle, the GT40. Click the image above to see Michele’s process from start to finish.
Though we’re a day late (we typically start the week off with a tutorial on Mondays) we opted to deliver not ONE great toot today, but TWO to make up for it. The video above is by concept artist Matt Kohr, with a terrific step-by-step article on Lifehacker to accompany it. As the first in a 5-part series, it teaches some basics for digital painting as a introduction to Photoshop. Well worth a view, as we’ll continue to post more of his great videos as he makes them.
You can view the link here on Youtube for his entire set: CTRLPAINTER
Below, you’ll find a video by Feng Zhu, coming to us via Design Sojourn, that talks to traditional mediums. Of note, Feng speaks to sketching from the elbow/arm and on selecting sketchbooks, which we find to be some of the most beneficial information for young Designers today.
This week’s rendering video comes courtesy of Designer João Dias, as he utilizes a specific color palette in Photoshop to render a car inspired by Mercedes’ F800 design language. The speed painting begins with a sketch, blocking in of color, and then detailing the lights and darks.
João’s painting incorporates a nice graphic, illustrative style that really highlights some of the fundamentals of rendering with a specific color in mind.
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Many of us sketch in Photoshop and, why wouldn’t we? The application has limitless brushes, tools, and effects that can help us create some stunning artwork and translate our designs onto the tube. The app is so legendary that each user creates their own style, manipulating color and linework to their bidding.
Mikael Lugnegard has been using Photoshop as a sketch tool for years. In this tutorial, he shows us how to utilize the software’s tools to create a stunning piece of car design art, focusing on the ability to add texture, reflection, and shading in ways that vellum diehards may fall in love with.
Heck, we did!
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Rendering a yellow car on yellow paper is not as simple as it looks. Careful, methodical application of color is the key to making it work. Click on the image above to see the twenty step process…
I decided to ring in the new year with a bit of an experiment. Click on the image above to see the twenty steps for this McLaren — you may need some orange gouache 
AutoDesk’s Studio Paint is an impressive piece of software. As a part of the Alias suite, it includes great integration with the 3D modeling and rendering side, while providing deep levels of realistic painting and brush control.
It is no surprise that it’s one of the choice tools for OEM studios, which makes this tutorial video by Autodesk’s David Bentley even more inspiring. Bentley takes a hand-sketched car, scans and imports it into Studio Paint, and renders the begeezus out of it.
Delicious.
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We have a very special tutorial this week. CDF contributor and founder of Driven Mavens, Arvind Ramkrishna, has graciously created a tutorial video for his readers about setting up the foundations to a successful vehicle digital painting. Though the video showcases painting an exciting car race scene from beginning to end, the principle techniques can be applied to any digital painting.
Have a gander at the inspiring video, get Photoshop loaded up and play along, and be sure to check out the step-by-step article over at DrivenMavens.
[Thanks, Arv!]