Cell-Shade A Car
Well, lets recap, shall we? Ok we made the outline of the car so far, but that was the easy part, believe it or not. Yes I know it was a lot of writing for making an outline, but it was very detailed and meant for n00bies. Now the HARD part starts. Well, I wouldn't say hard, just long. Very very loooong. Lets get started, shall we?
Ok, open up your file. Right now we have 3 layers: the "Original Car";, the "Outline";, and the "White"; layer. The "white"; layer isn't important, its just so if you want to view your outline with a nice clean white background, you can do so by pressing the little eye buttons on all the layers in between the "Outline"; and the "White";. Ok, now we have to outline all the lines inside the car. This is where your artistic flair comes in. now since this part of the tutorial is going to be long, I'm not going to spend too much time and detail on it. I'm just telling you what to do with some pics. You'll have to figure out how to use the program yourself if you don't know how already.
Select your "Outline"; layer, and select the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Lets start with the headlights and grill. First off, select the outline of the grill like this.
Now, do the headlights like this. Remember, you want to outline the actual lines from the photograph, but you don't want it to become so real that it looks like a photo, you want a sense of cartoonish-ness in there. Play around with different lines and shapes until you get something that looks like the picture enough, but it doesn't completely replicate it. Remember, you don't want to recreate the picture, this is YOUR car you are drawing so be creative.
CAUTION: do the following on the "Outline"; layer.
Go ahead and do the rest of the body, if you are stuck or out of ideas on how to make a certain part of the car look good, feel free to look at my example and replicate it. Here are various pics of different parts of the car I made for you. Now go ahead and do the rest of the car.
Ok, howdy, did you finish? Here's my example, yours doesn't have to be exactly like mine, but it should be close.
Ok, we finished the long and hard part of outlining this sucker. I know I didn't explain a lot on how to outline in details, but that's because this is an artistic project, I cant tell you how to draw something, you have to have the natural talent and an eye for these kinds of things. If you have completed everything so far, good job. Now lets go on to the FUN part, coloring!!! :)
