Well, this one has been kicking my backside... can't begin to count the hours I have in it.

Sorry about the big, ugly watermark, but it's a necessary evil.

Enjoy!

What took so long? I just did in 2 minutes

Anyone that wants it, its yours, free of charge!

You don’t really think that’s the same quality do you?

There's one in every crowd...

I dunno, that one looks like a photo doesn't it? Mine's not... FWIW, what i posted is a lower-resolution jpeg of my final art, so the full-size original is actually better—far higher resolution.

Now do this one. 🤣

Or perhaps this one… 👍

No, it took 2 minutes. But if I spent 10 I could find a better background to drag and drop my images onto lol. Thats all these (and his) are.

No, mine are Illustrator renderings. Not photos or Photoshop (other than the background in the 300 illustration). For example, the ‘71 Cuda I posted is a conceptual rendering, done for the shop building the car. There was nothing but the bare shell of the car in primer to work from. I rendered the car in illustrator, in the color of the owner’s choice, added his choice of wheels, tires and brakes, and rendered his custom billboard with the 408 callout and also added the interior he wanted. So no, that’s not “all mine are.” Seriously.

Just for grins, let’s see you do this in Photoshop.

That was the point of my comment.

What you create is art, not a compilation of images cut and pasted together.

Completely different in quality.

I'd say apples and oranges, but that's not even a fair comparison.
More like apples to dirt.

NICE very, very NICE! (small pick, I think the license plate needs a slight clockwise turn,)

Mike

Thanks man, I really appreciate you! 👍 There’s always more art to be working on, but if I get a chance today, I’ll pull the wireframe from the Scat Pack rendering that started this conversation. It’s always interesting to look at the art that way, as you can see things (like the tire tread in the 300) that aren’t readily apparent in the full-color art. It’s been a few years since doing the 300, and I don’t recall why I saved the wireframe when the art wasn’t complete. One headlight and the passenger side of the hood weren’t finished in the wireframe. That’s what jumps out at me at a quick glance….

Nahh makes it look more authentic

i love it, that looks really nice. to bad its not F8 green

I can see why it seems to appear that way, it's all about the size of the highlights on the bumper directly above the plate. The way the light hits the shape of the bumper, the highlight is bigger on the driver's side than the passenger side. And that makes it appear like the plate isn't straight...

So, here's the promised outline view of the Challenger art.

I'm not real sure what I'm looking at with the blue challenger photo. Are you staying you drew that from scratch, by first creating that wire drawing and then going from there? The tree reflection in the paint, you added that from imagination?


Reason I ask is I'd imagine taking a real photo of a car and working it backwards to the wire sketch like you showed for the 300 is very doable in Photoshop or similar programs.

Honest questions because the yellow cuda looks like a custom job, the others look like car photos overlayed on a background.

Nope, you’re exactly right, the Scat Pack Challenger and the 300 started with photos provided by the customers and I render them in Illustrator. The “wire frame” images are showing you all the various shapes in Illustrator that make up the rendering. Those shapes are all assigned colors and/or gradations. The ‘71 Cuda rendering is exactly as you say, created from scratch. There’s really no magic or secrets about this, just a various amount of hours invested to get to where I am pleased with the result.

And as you can imagine, these are created differently than my cartoons which are all hand sketched first, and then taken into Illustrator and rendered. We hadn’t discussed those in this thread yet, but here’s an example:

And then there’s also art for printing on t-shirts which is created entirely differently than the other art we’ve been discussing. T-shirt art typically uses a limited pallet of ink colors, limited to help control the cost of printing. I’ve done a lot of t-shirt art, including a couple years of doing the t-shirt art for Chryslers at Carlisle. I’m currently in the middle of next year’s Pure Stock Drags t-shirt design, and have also done t-shirt art for folks like Dave Dudek.