I was never much of a car and truck lover as a child so I tend to naturally shy away from drawing mechanical things. More recently I'm trying to be better at this, because it's a pretty big deficit if you don't have the ability as an illustrator. Luckily, many of the principles are the same as with painting a still life, portrait, or landscape. However, it does require a more slavish adherence to the rules of perspective.
Ultimately this was a successful piece for me. The biggest was to render the reflective surface of the car. In the end I arrived at a matte finished surface with some reflective elements added in to suggest the environment reflected onto the surface of the car. Reflections, are so variable, but I can find some tricks to inventing them. I'll post some new renderings as I do.
Below you can see the warmer color, higher value contrast, and greater level of detail used on the foreground edge of the car as opposed to the cooler, duller, soft-edged, low contrast relationships used rendered the back end. Since this transition occurs slowly over the surface and stays in the red hue family (red-orange to red-violet) our eye/brain perceives it as the same local color under varied lighting conditions.
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View more of my artwork at: www.spencerhallam.com
Below are some steps I took in my process. Notice that I started with a horizon-line, rough 2pt perspective lines, and a gray background. Also, I worked out my value structure before I started adding color. Once these foundations are in place, the details are easy to place relative to the larger perspective and value structures.
Ultimately this was a successful piece for me. The biggest was to render the reflective surface of the car. In the end I arrived at a matte finished surface with some reflective elements added in to suggest the environment reflected onto the surface of the car. Reflections, are so variable, but I can find some tricks to inventing them. I'll post some new renderings as I do.
Below you can see the warmer color, higher value contrast, and greater level of detail used on the foreground edge of the car as opposed to the cooler, duller, soft-edged, low contrast relationships used rendered the back end. Since this transition occurs slowly over the surface and stays in the red hue family (red-orange to red-violet) our eye/brain perceives it as the same local color under varied lighting conditions.
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View more of my artwork at: www.spencerhallam.com
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