Custom 54 Ford F-100 Rendering

3 Blog posts in 1 day!!!

And yet another time lapse video. My brother Jake owns a 1954 Ford F-100 that he's been trying to get some idea of direction on before he really gets into it. It's great to have ideas, but it's harder to visualize them sometimes. So I thought I'd try my hand at a rendering of a few of the ideas.... which are: Extended cab with short rear door, pillar-less doors (like a hard top car), removing the bottoms of the fenders where they would normally join under the doors via really bulky step side (thus chopping out some of the body), chopped roof, a slightly more modern looking bedside, and of course, newer fancier wheels on a lowered body. So it's really many ideas mixed into one. While drawing it out I made some extra changes which mainly consisted of slanting the cab and it's posts a little more forward, and adjusting the shape and angle of the front grill area. I also put in a bared grill, but that might not make it to the final. This initial drawing will serve as the 'original', and from here I'll use it as an underlay on a fresh piece to test out some coloring methods. This way I don't damage the original, and my finished drawing is on a clean piece of bristol. Hopefully I'll be able to start coloring in the next couple days!

Time Lapse Drums!

 ^^^ This is me ROCKIN' OUUUUUUUUUT!!!

So today, contractors showed up at our rent-a-disaster... at just short of 7:00 am. I know that's not terribly early for most people, but I'm still trying really really hard to enjoy my 'vacation', and this was an unannounced time. So they immediately came in and started destroying the 1 good room in the entire house- the upstairs bathroom. Why? I have no fucking clue. But what I will tell you is that it was louder then hell at our house at 7:00 am. So Caity and I went back to my brother Jake's house so she could shower and I could get some more sleep. Once I woke back up I was ready for revenge. Two cups of coffee later, I had an idea. These guys didn't mind making me wake up to unseemly noise, so I figured they wouldn't mind working through mine. That's right. I played the fuck out of some drums. I did ask their permission first and they said they wouldn't mind- but I knew they had no idea what they were agreeing to. Oh well. So I set up my time lapse camera and played for about an hour solid. In between songs I could hear Fred's car alarm going off. Now this is trivial- Fred sets off his own car alarm when I play drums (always)... and this is somehow less annoying to the other neighbors then my drumming? I don't think so. I guess he hopes that I'll be so annoyed with the sound of his alarm that I'll stop. WRONG. What it actually means is play louder. The construction guys never complained, so I guess it was cool.

Anyways... back to my time lapse video... The pics were taken at 10 second intervals for a little over an hour, and are played at about 0.25 seconds per frame. Occasionally you'll see me switching songs on the Ipod, or getting a new drum stick. Oh yes, they break. Millions of frames, lots of fun!! It's a time lapse, so there is no sound.

I love to play the drums and I know I look goofy doing it, but seriously, sooooooooooo much FUN!!!

New happenins

So I've technically been on vacation for 2 weeks now... with 1 week to go. But I'm getting restless and eager to keep myself both busy and entertained. I recently got a time lapse camera as a birthday present from sister Tammy, and I also recently decided that I wanted to put some time into drawing on paper while I have the chance. These 2 things are a perfect mix. My subject matter is a 1999 Ferrari 355... I didn't find a picture of it in the angle I wanted, but I found one that's close and used several other reference pictures to achieve the angle I wanted. I set up the camera and set it to 30 second intervals and worked in 2 stages- main body shape, then wheels. Ferrari's are quite curvaceous... so transposing the curves of the cars into lines can be tricky... especially if you're changing the perspective from your reference photo. Wheels, while more straight forward, still require good balance and perspective. I decided to turn the front wheel in a little bit (better pose/stance) as well as just making up the wheels (instead of going with the originals). It took a few tries to get them how I liked, but I got it to work. I also added a wet ground reflection to help make the pic more interesting. I've gone just about as far as I'm going to with pencil. A few more little refinements and it'll be ready for paint. Yes, I'm actually going to try to do the color/shading of this one with an airbrush.

More videos to come!

Thanks Tammy!