Sorry guys – no cartoon this week. For technical reasons, I have been unable to actually watch the race – and I can’t really do a cartoon from reading race reports. A real pain this is – first F1 race I’ve missed in decades…
Author Archives: Bruce Thomson
The rough and the smooth – The SMOOTH
Overlay of the previous drawing. Not perfect – car could be “wider”… still quite happy with the result. Total time spent on both drawings – about 1.25 hours. Reference taken from screen.
the rough and the smooth – the ROUGH
My students don’t, I think, believe me that drawings, sketches, renderings, paintings etc, need planning. So – I submit – a rough. This is typical of the work I do prior to attempting a “good” sketch. I will sometimes use this as an underlay (as I did in this case) or as a plan rough…
Rolls Royce sketch
Trying to make up for lost time… here is the original sketch – almost feels as though I’ve done a post a day for the past week now – eh??? 🙂
Rolls Royce Headlamp close up (see next post)
Thought it was worth posting this too – this give you an idea of the technique I used – overlayed the sketch and simply starting layering in opaque and semi-opaque brushstrokes, using , for the most part, “hard” brushes” and the odd “soft” smudge blend (especially in the grill).
Rolls Royce Headlamp
Sketched this a while back after the British car day, and thought it was an interesting subject – so I decided to give this a “photoshop paint” … took far too long on it, but am happy with the result.
Japanese Grand Prix
Japanese GP Cartoon Preview
Hi All – I’m away for the long weekend with my family. I hope that this weekend’s race will be fascinating though I can’t help but suspect that that fascination will likely focus around 3rd, 4th or 5th place – ah well – beggars can’t be choosers. I write this to indicate that I WILLContinue reading “Japanese GP Cartoon Preview”
Austin Healey Sprite
Another sketch from this year’s British car day. This was a lovely off-white/cream 1959 bug-eye sprite.
Caught in my headlights 