Some of my other car artwork

[Black_Bullitt]

A while back I got this idea to put together an all Mustang coloring book, using 'toons' of club members' Mustangs. Well, we advertised, I got a few hits, and these are the final products I came away with. After realizing how much work I was actually putting into these, I decided not to call them toons anymore, but call them line renderings.

What I do is take an image of a car and then draw (with the mouse) each line separately, then bend the line to match the lines in the picture, then connect if possible. To put that in perspective, these images contain anywhere from 800-1400 individual lines... each. Also, because of the format these are saved in, they can be blown up to literally life size without losing resolution - say it with me kids: "Vector Graphics". :D


Take a looksy...


http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/vicki_final.jpg
http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/Chris_Cartoon_final.jpg
http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/FYouGitive_final.jpg

http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/SVTSkip_trace.jpg

http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/progress_2.jpg
http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/danni_profile_1.jpg


And then, once I got smart and realized I was selling myself short, I decided to take a stab at a real toon. Grabbed a pencil and some tracing paper, sketched this out, scanned it into the computer, and then went through the same process as the line renderings, then went back and put some color/shading into it. This is also a vector graphic and can be blown up to any size imagineable.


http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/images/Rich_Pics/Danni_toon.png


Anyways, that's it. I do this stuff on the side along with my photography, under the name TROSTstudios. :D

[SpdBoss]

that last one is badass.....i need one like that of my sonic blue for a wallpaper on my desktop....

you are crazy amazing with the graphics rich.

[Speeddmn]

Damn Rich, get a girlfriend and or your car to work on!

Those are sweet!




Side note: Do you know how/what would be needed to take a normal pic of a car and blow up life size? Even black and white would be sweet. I'd like some garage art and have the picture on the car fairly large then chop it into 12"12 squares then spaced 1" apart?

That sound weird? Let me know.

[Black_Bullitt]

Thanks dudes!

Zack, I know what you're talking about. I tried making one of those with a picture of the Bullitt for my living room... mine didn't turn out too well.
Unless you have a super duper megatron megapixel camera, you're not going to get life size with great quality.Standard photos don't expand as well as Vector images (vectors are based off mathematical equations.) I do remember hearing about a new feature coming to PhotoShop soon that helps with regular photos though, I'll have to check that out.

Anyways, yeah, we can do something like that if you want.

[Speeddmn]

Thanks dudes!

Zack, I know what you're talking about. I tried making one of those with a picture of the Bullitt for my living room... mine didn't turn out too well.
Unless you have a super duper megatron megapixel camera, you're not going to get life size with great quality.Standard photos don't expand as well as Vector images (vectors are based off mathematical equations.) I do remember hearing about a new feature coming to PhotoShop soon that helps with regular photos though, I'll have to check that out.

Anyways, yeah, we can do something like that if you want.

Word, btw when you gonna drive up for some glamore shots in the hanger?

[Black_Bullitt]

I was gonna ask you when a good time/date was. We've got some birthday madness to get involved in this weekend, but next weekend should be okay, weather permitting.

[1lo94]

THOSE LOOK BAD ASS

[slo4.6]

kick ass!

[cbrown54]

thats awesome, dude hook me up with some pics of my car like that

[Black_Bullitt]

We can arrange something. :t)

[cbrown54]

so you wanna hook me up with some art work of my car?? :)

[CaballoBlanco]

We need to go downtown on a nice afternoon and do a picture session or something.

[cbrown54]

we?

[CaballoBlanco]

yea we, abilenemustang.net members. >>>>http://www.forums.abilenemustangs.net/showthread.php?t=28

[cbrown54]

yea man sounds awesome

[rdbrown15]

thats sweet i like the last one the best

[Black_Bullitt]

so you wanna hook me up with some art work of my car?? :)I'll hook you up with the AbileneMustangs member discount. :look: LOL