Some new work; Dodge D100

[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!

[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.

[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.