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Posted on 09/06/10 11:54:14 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3741 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Och Jings! Help ma Boab! That's a guid yin! _________________ Why is there only one word for ‘Thesaurus’? |
Posted on 09/06/10 12:06:21 PM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2806 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
thanks Eva! LOL at your knitted car. I can just see a "For Sale" sign on it- only one owner, elderly lady who knits for church fairs 
_________________ Wicked Witch of the West: I'm melting! I'm melting! |
Posted on 09/06/10 3:10:54 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Some excellent ideas. Hopefully I have now got scales out of my system!  |
Posted on 10/06/10 04:45:15 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
More green! _________________ Let's go the lab. Gotta Blast!!! - Jimmy Neutron |
Posted on 10/06/10 1:39:03 PM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3741 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
And now for only £359/19/6d............ 
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s93/GKBphoto/carunveiling.jpg _________________ Why is there only one word for ‘Thesaurus’? |
Posted on 10/06/10 2:36:48 PM |
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katew
Virtual Virtuoso Posts: 676 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Here's mine ...  |
Posted on 10/06/10 6:10:33 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Great entries  Enjoying all .....
Excellent Kate!, obviously sent out to graze, ....better than rusting
Sorry again, too busy, committed doing other work, but I always enjoy having a go at FC (with you all) and good for the mind to have a break. So my limited attempt .. .. Acknowledgments to Bridget Riley BTW, this should probably give some with health warning, like strobe lighting ( I was even starting to feel a bit sick, but maybe it was sea sickness  )
This gives me a sense of nausea. If you get "right" resolution ..... something happens and makes "me" feel sick .... Sorry |
Posted on 10/06/10 6:32:39 PM |
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Eva Roth
Luminous Liberator Posts: 269 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
LOL at your knitted car. I can just see a "For Sale" sign on it- only one owner, elderly lady who knits for church fairs many thanks Ben, Josephine and Anna! Yes, the elderly lady has realised that what with her failing eye sight she should stop driving - and probably knitting too! |
Posted on 10/06/10 6:44:36 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Do you have the knitting pattern Eva? My 83yr mother is a great knitter, when she has time in her busy personal schedule . Knowing her, I suspect she could knit it!
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Posted on 10/06/10 9:21:41 PM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
 _________________ For me the creative process is more one of discovery than creation. - James Lee Burke |
Posted on 11/06/10 03:43:32 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Emil, excellent! _________________ I got it. Brain Blast!!! - Jimmy Neutron |
Posted on 11/06/10 08:28:00 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6844 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Two late entries from Michael Sinclair, who's asked me to post these as PhotoBucket isn't working... 
In future though, Michael, remember you can always reduce the size to 100 K and upload the images directly to the forum! |
Posted on 11/06/10 08:29:59 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6844 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
It’s occurred to me this week that, of all areas of human interest, there are more differences in vocabulary between the UK and the US when talking about cars than just about anything else. So here’s a quick translation dictionary: UK...................US Bonnet.............Hood Bumper............Fender Tyre.................Tire Windscreen......Windshield Boot.................Trunk Interesting to see nerdtron's entry, a repeat of a Friday Challenge from some months back - I'd completely forgotten about that one. It's a great piece of work, the shading and texturing looking really convincing on this electric car. Maybe the edges are just too smooth, though? Bring on the Smudge tool... I like the leafy second entry, but if you’re going to take out the windscreen you really need to add some interior to that car! A gorgeous custom build from Nick Curtain, who has transformed the car almost beyond recognition. Perfect paintwork blends the new elements in perfectly with the original. Just one thing: surely whoever built this wouldn't have painted over the chrome trim down the side? A charmingly home-made car from tooquilos, clad in wood panelling with wooden windscreen wipers and even wood wheels and radiator. Maybe the wooden headlights are a step too far? A great soundtrack in the animated version - but I do have to point out the perspective of the shed. The vanishing lines point down to the horizon - but in the background, this is way above. An entertaining custom job from powerslave, with a fantastic fantasy paint job and a gleaming new engine. I like the way the back has been cut away to make it into a truck - and terrific chrome work! BP to the rescue, it seems, in tomiloi's car made of oil. Great cartoon distortion, and some cute wildlife with just the one oil-soaked heron. Shouldn't an oil car be dripping oil as it drives, though? The idea of KFC delivering is ghastly enough, let alone in a car made of chicken feathers. I particularly like the soft edges in brewell's entry, as well as the pink and yellow ‘beak'. I am going to have to mention the perspective thing, though: the vanishing lines in the car should point in the same direction as those on the street behind. Easy enough to shear this one! There's something about LonnieK's work that so often has an ethereal, HDR-like glow to it. And this week's is no exception: it's a beautiful, hazy and warm image, with subtle camouflage texturing and a perfect colour match for the environment. Lonnie, you have a really strong style - beautiful! I like the way Eggbox's Dodgem car (which I suppose explains the extra bumper) has been neatly slotted into the row in the car park. Good to see it's been turned into a convertible, with the suggestion of a seat within. Is it just me, or does the whole thing appear to be lurching forwards? Very tickled by Eva Roth's knitted car - right down to the knitted windscreen wipers and door handle. I like all the extra detail, such as the lumpy wool-shaped edges and the strand of wool coming off it - nice work! Great to see GKB's tiger family going on safari in people-land - and the tiger texture has been very neatly applied to the car, still allowing us to see the shine and shading through it. Great running people in the background, too, so it seems almost a shame for me to mention the perspective thing... but there, it's slipped out. Watch your perspective! Some beautiful texturing in the second entry, with a detiled draped sheet and banner. I really like that we can just make out the detail in the car through the sheet, and the subtle creases and wrinkles in it. And those brass rings add a lot of realism to the sign in the background, too. The green sign is out of perpective, though - lose a piece off that back half! Another animal fur car, this time from Ben Mills - a giraffe texture, but it's driven by Yogi Bear. What's the significance of the painted-out No Parking sign? A static image, unusually from james: a woollen car, to match the sheep in the jumper farm (factory?) behind. I like the texture, but you really need to fluff up those edges so it looks like the car is made of wool, rather than that it’s just painted on top. A nicely cut out interior: but add a reflection layer at low opacity to make the glass. The funniest thing about Josephine Harvatt’s tartan car is the fact that it’s wearing a sporran... a neatly wrapped texture, especially in the way it changes orientation to go over the roof and bonnet. Was that bagpipe player really just standing there by the side of the road? Whatever for? It’s frog time for Deborah Morley again, with Kermit driving a scaly, reptilian car. A great texture, but best of all are the reptile eyes for the headlights - spooky! A very nicely worked friesian car from katew, with a good texture and perfect perspective placement. The best thing here, of course, is the way the grass grows up in front of the car: we can see it blade by blade, which must have been laborious to paint. I can see why you got fed up and covered the back with milk churns! Great job. A touch of op art from Jota120, whose car is rolling over a Bridget Riley background. The angle of the car makes 3D sense of the texture, with a terrific and convincing shadow. Great texturing on the car, too, and the treatment of the windows is perfect. Very good, Trevor. A beautifully rusted car from Emil, which looks as if it’s been sitting in that barn for decades. Details like the cracked headlight and displaced radiator grille work really well. Excellent rust texture on the paintwork, but on the chrome it looks a little too much like the Dissolve mode of the brush. To soften it, add a little Gaussian Blur afterwards. I like the shine on michael sinclair's gold car, although a lot more red is needed there - it's more lemon than gold at the moment. Try creating the effect as an Adjustment Layer, then blurring the car itself, which will smooth out the ragged edges produced by the Curves operation. And I like the crushed car in the second entry, sad though it is! |
Posted on 11/06/10 08:47:27 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Thank you Neth. _________________ The most beatiful thing we can experience is mysterious. It is the source of all true art and sience. - Albert Einstein |
Posted on 11/06/10 08:50:58 AM |
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Emil
KAFKAsFRIEND Posts: 413 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Thank you Steve for your comment, the rust on the chrome is dissolve mode of brush. I tried to blur it but it was not so OK. I will try it again. _________________ For me the creative process is more one of discovery than creation. - James Lee Burke |
Posted on 11/06/10 08:53:16 AM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Thanks Steve Nick |
Posted on 11/06/10 08:59:52 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Yes he was.
Waiting for a lift perhaps so I obliged ... Thanks for your kind comments _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 11/06/10 09:04:28 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3741 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Thanks Steve. That sign was an afterthought just before I posted. Sloppy work! Mea Culpa. _________________ Why isn't 'phonetic' spelled the way it sounds? |
Posted on 11/06/10 09:08:06 AM |
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nerdtron
Neutron Neth Posts: 76 Reply |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Thanks Sir Steve!
It's about a year and a half since that first friday challenge. _________________ I got it. Brain Blast!!! - Jimmy Neutron |
Posted on 11/06/10 09:18:35 AM |
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Eggbox
Ovoid Opportunist Posts: 797 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 303: Dress the car
Yes Steve it does look as if it is lurching forward. I had so much trouble with the skew and distort to make it sit on the road that I only noticed the lurch after posting. Isn't that always the way!!! Thanks for your comments as always. Ted |
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