Bruce Thomson's Sketches
This is a car that I was only peripherally aware of but was reminded of recently when I watched the Peter O’Toole, Audrey Hepburn movie “How to steal a million”… in it you get to see O’toole tooling (sorry) around Paris in an E Type and Hepburn burning (sorry) around in a Bianchina convertible. Lovely.
Another gratuitously complex drawing…
Better late than never? I tried to skive off this with the excuse that last Sunday was my B-day, but I have had enough requests to get off my arse and produce a cartoon that I have done just that – enjoy…
…or “a triumph of detail over content” … or “the anti-Braun”. Not sure why I did this. Just got started and got carried away. Still, there are mornings when I would like this to be the coffeemaker that greeted me…
No cartoon this week – Sorry! it’s my birthday today and I’m taking time off…
Cheers – Bruce
A sketch I’ve done for a client who wishes to have his old Hondas painted. This is one rough of several to show the client different views and compositions. Drawing 2 cars together is always tricky, because if you draw them in the same perspective “grid” they look unnatural, but if you don’t they can look out of perspective…
This was a tricky one. I was giving this the same treatment as the previous post (the Mercedes coloured paper rendering) but it just wasn’t looking “right”. In the end, I took the sketch layer from the base and put it on the top layer, “multiplied” it and knocked back the opacity to about 35%… and suddenly it looked good. I think so anyway.
This is a much simpler subject than the previous post, but it took more time to do – simplicity is hard to catch, and “off white” is hard to render…
“Coloured paper” is in quotes – as this is entirely digital. This is an old Industrial Design rendering technique I teach my students (for “real” examples of this see my website under “renderings”). It’s a tricky one to learn and hard to do correctly – however, it works amazingly in the digital format. Essentially you take your sketch in, establish a “paper” (or background) colour and then simply dodge and burn, or alternatively, render in black and white. I suspect I’ll be knocking off a couple of these in the next few weeks…
I always like the look of these. The car is nice too… 😉
A rather “too careful” colour rendition of the earlier Polski Fiat sketch.
Caught in my headlights