Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Car

The other week in class we worked with cylinders and converging lines to construct cars. I'd be lying if I said this was the first car I've drawn, but it's definitely among the first that actually came out kind of looking like a car. We traced ellipses and converging lines off of a photo, then used them as construction lines for our own car. Some people drew BMWs and Corvettes, I drew a beater. First one in pencil, second one in ballpoint.

I pose a question to the photoshop-literate: I am scanning 11"x17" paper on a letter size scanner, so I do it in two parts. From there, I bring them into photoshop, align them as two layers in a single file, and mess with the levels and contrast/brightness. Is there a trick to this, so I don't get that dark line where you can see the division between the two scans?

I'm thinking I'll play around with these in the digital realm later. And upload more scans, but now I am le tired. Criticism and commenting is encouraged. g'night.

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