Nissan 370Z drawing

[ddbest]

Haven't draw in two weeks, a bit of rusty. Still manged to pull this off. 370Z. Added a background to make everything more realistic.

Car: Nissan 370Z

Time: 15 Hours

Media: Graphite pencil, Tissue, eraser and brush.

Size: 14" by 17"

The reference picture was from http://www.superstreetonline.com/

Hope you guys like it.

Comments are greatly appreciated.

Enjoy!

Visit my site for more drawings.http://www.kaorenderings.com

[numbnuts240]

that's REALLY good. nice work

[Ar878]

holy awesome

[JLAUDIO85]

holy hell look at the reflection off the door :omad props for ur skills man

[hitbychance]

MAD SKILLS lol +1000000000000000

[dre1507]

that's so awesome. looking it at you'd swear it was a picture with some extra visual effects done to it. my favorite part though is the detail of the wheels. pedo bear sig, hahaha.
Modified by dre1507 at 10:21 AM 3/12/2010

[Speedy7_7]

Would you sell stuff like this? If I could get you a picture worth drawing, how much would you charge to do it?

Really Really good.

[G_whizz]

Good God!

How the hell do you do that??



Where do you even start??

The wheels and reflection are insane!

Nice job!

[ddbest]

Would you sell stuff like this? If I could get you a picture worth drawing, how much would you charge to do it?

Really Really good.

Sent you an email.

[Dittoz7]

Artist I Me Says: Whoo...

Photographer Says: You Should Of Fixed Those Reflections. And By Fix I Mean Get Rid Of Them.

[Bubba1]

Wow. Nice work.

[Bmore-coupe]

Amazing work

[MellowZ32]

Haven't draw in two weeks, a bit of rusty. Still manged to pull this off. 370Z. Added a background to make everything more realistic.

I hate your modesty, that is an amazing drawing!would you be willing to draw one of my broads like kate winslet in Titanic?

[stenJDM]

holy mother of god. i want your skills. please teach me to draw cars this well

[RCA]

[Zydeco]

. damn thats a sweet drawing, keep up the good work.

[Dire91]

Damn that is good, i need to learn how to shade like that

[ddbest]

Thanks guys!

[SHIFT_Z]

I will dish out some constructive criticism, since I have a BFA and thats what we are taught to do for our peers / fellow artists. (Graphite drawing was / is my bag of tricks, so it's easier for me to help ya.) Here we go.

Text is hit or miss when dealing with art. Unless it's essential to the piece, I'd say 4/5 times it's a miss. This is mainly because it's either 1) Distracting. Or 2) Imperfect (trying to replicate by hand/eye.) Since you completed this drawing freehand, replicating text is extremely difficult without proper measuring, and tons time devoted to making it absolutely perfect.In this case, I'd have left out the decals. (Except the "Z" and "Nissan" badges, of course).

It's clear that the bulk of the time was donated towards the detail in the wheels / headlights / reflection in the paint.. and it shows! They look great. However, because of this, these become strong focal points, and the rest of the car gets a little lost. They are arguably the most difficult pars of the car to draw- that being said, you can't let that consume the piece.To fix this, I would suggest using your artistic license to sharpen and soften some parts of these elements, so that the entire piece balances out a little bit. Or even, change the 'focus' of the piece so that it appears that the photo was taken with a shallow depth of field.

From my drawing experiences, I have gotten really good at drawing something exactly as it appears. BUT- you have to remember, that no matter how spot-on it looks to you in reference to your source image, it still may not look 'right' to other viewers. Thats where your talent comes into play, and you can manipulate the image however you need to, to make it appear as real as possible.

Otherwise, your renderings are great! Don't take this this as me bashing your stuff, cause I'm not. I'm trying to make it better for you, and your clients. (Some people in school took this type of criticism personally... which you can't let it come off that way)

You may know this already, but I don't know your art background- So I'm just telling you how it was for me.

Check out some graphite renderings by Kent Bellows... he was a master, and is one of my long-time drawing idols.

Keep up the good work.

[Ace2cool]

That's good stuff man. Awesome work.

[nsrZ32]

You have some serious skills man. Great job!

[LongBeachCoupe]

I thought there was going to be a drawing for a free 370z! What a bummer!

Nice pic though!

[ddbest]

Thanks for the comment. It was really helpful to me. I get what you pointed out. i did consider of skipping the decal on the car. maybe next drawing I will balance it out more. I will definitely check out the artist you mentioned. I didnt have much art background, it was mostly self taught. Its great to get some critism sometimes.

[Mr1der]

son, you're way too bored

I wish I had the dedication it took to do that...I'd probably own the world by now.

[E7-S14]

im always anxiously awaiting your threads to load when i click on them

didn't expect nothing less than amazing this time as well and you delivered!