Gamma Garden - Page 14
MrPenguin on June 22, 2024
I am not good at drawing cars. To assist, I got a toy car of the type that Wolfie drives. I'll be taking reference photos for any scene where I'll have to draw it. What I really need to do is buckle down and just practice drawing cars a lot.
PaulEberhardt at 10:56AM, Nov. 9, 2024
I don't really sleep any more... That should ring some alarm bells normally, but I guess with mad scientist prodigies it's probably fine.
MrPenguin at 11:57AM, Nov. 10, 2024
It's a side effect of her condition.
PaulEberhardt at 10:55AM, Nov. 9, 2024
I think too that this car turned out excellent. I don't want to seem like bragging, but cars don't usually give me much of a hard time. I know why they would, though. It's all the curves you don't usually notice but are there, and I used to practise endlessly once upon a time and spent many weekends on vintage car fairs taking craploads of reference photos from all kinds of angles. But then again, you never see any current cars in anything I draw because that would take me out of my own comfort zone. It's not that the designers of yore necessarily went for clearer lines and shapes or anything, but as everyone has them down as old it's easier to get away with results that don't look as slick and polished as they might.
MrPenguin at 11:57AM, Nov. 10, 2024
Yeah, I've found cars are pretty divisive with artists. Getting good at drawing anything is just about putting in the hours to learn but we're naturally going to draw the things we enjoy more than others. I remember finding them intensely frustrating as a kid and I think that feeling is still stuck in my head somehow. I intend to take it head on in the future and have a whole sequence set in a car so that I'm forced to put in some practice time.
marcorossi at 2:50PM, June 22, 2024
This is why I abstutely only do sci-fi or fantasy!
MrPenguin at 7:03AM, June 24, 2024
Yeah, the temptation to hang out in the comfort zone is real.
artdude2002 at 2:27PM, June 22, 2024
I think you did a good job the car. Generic cars are hard enough, but trying to draw an actual car is like drawing a portrait of someone famous. If it is even a little off, people will notice. As for reference photos, I used to have a file cabinet drawer filled with pictures of everything from building interiors and exteriors, clothing, people, you name it. Now I keep reference images on my computer.
MrPenguin at 7:36AM, June 24, 2024
Hey thanks. I know what you mean about trying to draw a specific car. Out by the Lab is pretty cartoony though, so there's a bit of wiggle room. One of the dangers with relying on reference photos is that the results tend to start looking a little stiff. It's better if I have a deeper understanding of the subject so that I can fill in some of the bits on my own and keep it looking right for the style.
J_Scarbrough at 11:07AM, June 22, 2024
That's something that a lot of us have to do, use reference photos and at different angles to help us draw something that are a little too hard for us to draw from scratch or even memory. Cars seem to be hard for a lot of artists; I know Greg Evans of LUANN keeps an accordian-style folder full of such references, and even a storyboard artist for THE LOUD HOUSE boarded an episode about cars, to which she swore she would never do a board that involves cars ever again.
MrPenguin at 7:37AM, June 24, 2024
It makes me think that I should do an aside set entirely in a car so that I have to face this problem head on.