Rule of Thirds

This assignment is for Digital Photography (SCA266) in the Graphic Design program. Any artist out there should be familiar with the Rule of Thirds. It plays a key part in creating an appealing composition whether it's a photograph or an Illustration.

 I'm actually kind of excited to be taking a photography course again. It's giving me another opportunity to expand my creativity as well as my own photo library for any future projects.

The subject is a scale model Ferrari F1 car (Can't remember if it's 1:12 or 1:16) that I've owned for almost 10 years now. It's finally being used for something besides sitting on my book shelf looking cool.

More sketchbook creations

Now that I have 2 and half weeks off before the start of my next semester, expect more drawings over the coming days and weeks.

An Alien character I got from the book "Awesome Things to Draw". It's primarily geared towards children's book illustrations, but it's still a good way to be introduced to drawing all kinds of things from animals, dinosaurs, monsters and vehicles. I've done some drawings from this book before: http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.blogspot.ca/2011/10/even-more-drawing-practice-from-book.html

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.blogspot.ca/2011/10/more-drawing-practice-from-book-awesome.html

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.blogspot.ca/2011/09/oh-my-god-its-ufo.html

http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.blogspot.ca/2011/09/vector-sports-car.html

A concept car that I found in a book titled "Start Your Engines" and it was created by Scott Robertson. The book is full of concept cars, tanks, bikes and even boats. Really cool book, lots of inspiration to be had. Will definitely try a few more of these sketches before I head back to school.

Polar Bear illustration from the same book as the Alien drawing

Dodge Challenger: Finished

Same deal with the the Ford Fiesta; I worked on this on and off for about 1 and half to 2 weeks. This time, I went straight to tracing the car in Illustrator instead of making a sketch, like I normally do.

Final line art

Colour progress

Final Product

Ken Block's Ford Fiesta FINISHED

So I worked on this piece on and off for about a month now. Here is the final product.

Reference Image

My image created in Illustrator

The paint job/decals were very time consuming and some of the smaller decals were really hard to trace. Nonetheless, the car is done and I'm quite pleased with the final result, being the fact that this only my second attempt at a vector car.

Ken Block's Ford Fiesta

Original sketch

Preliminary tracing/colouring

Still have a bit of aways to go before this car is completed. There is more tracing to been done regarding the car's structure and then there's the decal tracing, which could be a whole days job in and of itself.

F1 Poster: Monaco Grand Prix

Using the F1 car asset I made earlier, I built a poster promoting the Monaco Grand Prix, just for fun. The  streaks of light were made by creating a rectangle, cinching in either the two left or right hand points to narrow it down, copying the streak and blurring it to make it look like it's glowing. This was all built using Adobe Illustrator.