Chevelle WIP

[city_ofthe_south]

I was taking screen shots here and there as I went along on this project. Thought I'd share em.

[city_ofthe_south]

I've got some more but I'll fast forward.



That was 1970 .... this is 2009.

[70rs]

Nice work.

I would love to learn how to do that.

[tones2SS]

Nice work. All done by freehand? I see you're using Photoshop.
Good job.

[city_ofthe_south]

Originally Posted by tones2SS

Nice work. All done by freehand? I see you're using Photoshop.
Good job.

Thanks guys. The rendering is almost completely done in Adobe Illustrator (emblems for the stock version were done in Ps .... ok except the SS, it is a Ps Ai combo.). In some of the screen shots you can see both my monitors. The monitor on the left has a couple pencil scribbles open in Photoshop just to flip them and do a little brightness contrast. Sometimes I will put the sketch directly into Illustrator and that is what you see in the first few screen shots, and on the right monitor. But for the custom bumper I just "freehand" in Ai and then compare it to the sketch on the other screen as I go along. The perspective in the sketchs is wrong and I work with shapes much better than I work with lines, so I didn't need the sketches in Ai, just near by for me to look at. I use a digital camera to capture my pencils and dump them in my computer. It's all done with the pen tool and filled with standard gradients. I also keep all sorts of ref material open .... pictures of the new Camaro, a Cadillac CTS-V, a Chevelle, etc to get ideas.

[tones2SS]

Very cool! Nice work.
Good job with AI and Photoshop!!!