Some new work; Dodge D100

[city_ofthe_south]

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]

Originally Posted by 406nova

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!

Originally Posted by 406nova

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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.