Elizar's dump

[elizar]

I dont know if I will ever post again here, but here goes:

Previous art in cars style:
www.deviantart.com/deviation/41683451/

Few days ago, while bored at work, I tried to draw a Formula Offroader. The URL links to a site of only one car but with several photographs. The sport is rare or nonexistant outside of Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

The finishing results, after tracing the scetch, was this:



Extremly basic, and my bro told me I had made the tires too small, and there were some issues about the layout. I had drawn that to the end without even using referrences, but having the tires too small was an issue that stuck with me. I didnt draw the interior though, or a driver

So today, I tried again, doing it in cars style to avoid drawing an interior or a driver. Click on image for clearer drawing.



I traced the drawing, using a fine-line pen as I hate every other pen there is. Fuzzy and clearer scan without any cleaning up that I do before coloring. Whereas cleaned up ink looks like this: Fuzzy and clearer

Fuzzy flat coloring and clearer flat coloring

And the finished product is below, click for clearer image:



Yep, I cant draw at all and neither can I color well.

The line for the lower eyelid was drawn with a mouse, then sharpened to fit my lineart style, it worked very well. The 'headlights' are painted on the character, which is a referrence to how on some Formula Offroaders, they paint on small sponsor tags where the headlights should be.

The problem is with an Offroader, is that it shouldn't exist in the Cars world at all. In Formula Offroad, on average every three course runs results in some damage, broken axle, runaway tire, engine on fire and more. The offroaders are also not manufactured. They are most of the times just Range Rover chassis with new body, new suspension system, new engine and the whole sebang.

One thing though, those things can drive on water if they have constant NOS injection, and the right kind of tires.

This character, male named Steinar, was supposed to be in the TIRS RP, until I realized I had actually assisted booing Kamui away from there, rendering TIRS completly dead.

[fierano]

That's aight, there's still opportunity to be found. I'm assuming though that it's a very basic illustration, of course. Either way, less likely to exist are F1 racers, unless their eyes are part of the "helmets" creepily integrated into the main figure. @.=.@

[adrian]

people do extreme sports. then there's jackie chan. he breaks himself alot and he still exists. and yes. that sentence is very sureal. as for F1 cars... i figure you could be not far off, but dont forget that the driver'd not be ther. the eyes'd maybe be at the bit behind the driver's head?

[elizar]

And who is this bum looking fella? That is a humanized Joltsen, a canon character I play at the Track Time. After Kamui's number of drawings of humanized Glimmer and Kamui, I figured I aught to take a shot again to draw humans.

My brother was invaluable when I drew this. During scetching (two sceletons, deciding on a pose, and two scetches to finalize before final drawing), he commented and helped me a lot, but I haven't told him aside from few thanks.

When trying to draw Joltsen, I had origionally decided on a brushed up hair, similar to Michael Weatherly's style in NCIS and Dark Angel. But when realizing that I can't draw but one style for males, I went with it, and I like it better.
Why isn't there a complete 28 in the drawing, or Nitroade's logo? The faint hint of 28 on the shirt was always there, while first scetches had 28 on the sleeve of the jacket completly visible. But my bro protested, claiming it was not supposed to be like that, and we decided on what is used now. As for Nitroade's logo, it is on the back of the jacket.

New style on digital inking in the drawing, very bad error in regards of the eyes and highlighting, and the 5 o'clock shadow did not come out good. This is also one of the very few drawings where I do a complete face-front drawing of a character. I have always had problem with legs, and where they are joined. That currently bugs me the most about the drawings, the legs.

What I was aiming for was somewhat handsome man, but it turned out to be quite bum looking one. But I think I got it in the drawing that this character has a healty sized ego, confidence, and a touch of arrogance.

Is it so bad that this is the best drawing of a human that I have done?

And a final note, I wont be back in the Track Time until next tuesday, I need to figure out how much damage work has on my creativity and will to be in the RP.

[Tracker89]

It's good, much better than anything I've ever done...although I can't tell if that dark area around his mouth is supposed to be shading or stubble. XD

And about the F1 car thing...well, I personally believe that they don't exist in the Cars world(Schumi's an F430, and they're strangely absent from Luigi's wall), but if they did, they'd probably get the same "treatment" as the stunt plane: A small oval dome over the cockpit, with the eyes in front.

[elizar]

Stubble, more commonly known as a 5 o'clock shadow. This is why I dislike it, I didn't get it across good enough.

I myself have bit hard time believing that cars in the cars 'verse could be any different than from the factory specs. But with all the tuners running around, powerful cars which should not be street legal, F1 and Formula Offroader can exists.

But I refuse to believe that a go-kart may exist in the Cars verse.

[Tracker89]

Like I said, F1 cars technically can exist in the Carsverse, I just think they don't because a real-life F1 driver appears in the movie as an F430(which actually do race, but in the GT class), and Luigi the Ferrari worshipper doesn't have any on his wall. Other types of open-wheel racing possibly exist.

Car modding obviously exists, just look at Ramone and the DRH. And if you take the video game as canon, there's mention of Sheriff getting a turbocharger installed, and let's not forget the little suspension lift Lightning received...

[adrian]

I'd assume any polic vehicle'd have to be modified in some way from stock unless they're particularly high-performance machines anyways... but Polic tend to preffer "sleeper" cars anyways. mind... you'd be a bit stuck it you made an arrest driving a Lambo huh? a modified saloon however... somewhere to put arestees.

not overly relevnt in Carverse i know, but...

[elizar]

While having fever and some sort of new allergies, I thought it was a good idea to draw. After staring at my notebook for a long time, I finally figured out to draw a pose I had in mind before doing Joltsen's profile image.

Sketches. This was a big problem. The first one came out perfect, but I couldn't replicate the pose in the other scetches (I was going adslkjfslkdjf on the third one), and then thought 'screw this' and traced the first scetch.



Not one of the best things, but it is enough to get the pose out of my head. I was going for frustrated/slight anger feel, and I think I got it. Good thing I figured to draw this, because the other ideas where... strange. Probably because of the fever.

It is though too darn small because it is drawn small. But if I had figured out how to replicate the pose, then it would be a large image like the first one.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

I always have problems with poses. When I try something new, it always ends up looking like the person's disfigured, or a limb is dislocated. >.o Urg.

[elizar]

Heh, I drew that even without posing myself. The only 'pose' I did before drawing was to touch the back of my neck, to figure out how the arm was positioned. I and my bro tried to pose later, but found out that the knee should be to the side of the chest, and the foot by the knee of the other leg, and that is a stretch for the other leg.

Poses for me have always been hard, and if anything, I was always drawing 3/4 full profile stand. Now that I have started drawing again, I have been trying to be more creative about what to draw, focusing on what looks good instead of what I actually can do.

Looked at your work, you are definatly a better artist than me.

[Reiji Neko Mitsukai]

I'm stuck with the 3/4 profile too. I need more practice, but it seems like I don't have the time.

[elizar]

One of my friends, who is a great artist (and I have been trying to bum a sketch of humanized Joltsen from him), told me that to practice drawing, is to have a pencil and a small notebook or sketchpad always with you. I don't do that though, and draw when I want to draw, not always drawing. I guess that is why I am still no good artist. I just write.

[elizar]

No matter how I draw him, I make him look like a bum. Drawn when being in the computer room was intolerable because of some allergies.

My bro complained that he had a muzzle. Thanks, now I got to figure out a different approach on the profile face. I hate profile faces.

[elizar]

Dang, been a while. I have resolved to start drawing again, doing one scetch a day. I know it is little, but it is at least something that keeps me drawing.

And I did SA characters.


First we have Aron. With few random anthro heads I was practicing, the topmost one gives me a headache.


Then Delfina in what I always imagined was her graygoyle form. It was also a good practice on how to do clothing for the strangely shaped humans. You can perhaps notice her wings are pierced. My style always with wings is that it does not origionate from a single limb, but a limb and leathery skin attached along the back.


And we have Liska. I hate that upper arm, but I can tolerate the rest of the thing. Barely.