For Kate and Danny

[Marcella Ross]

😮 Paul, you’re talents are wasted on signs!!!! Looking at that reminds me of Disney Pixar pictures, you know the cartoons like Robots and Toy Story etc. You could get a job animating someone else drawings!
Know what I mean…..????? hope so ! 😳

[Kate and Danny]

thanks paul, unfortunatley we only use illustrator here,
and although i am familiar with using gradient meshes, their
implementation is probably different between corel and adobe.

Thankyou for the post though.

cheers

Danny

[Paul Rollason]

Try this one

paul r

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Lighter.ai

[Carrie Brown]

Bl00dy hell Paul ….. I agree with Marcella …. perhaps a different area of work for you should be on the cards?!!

😀

[Paul Rollason]

quote Marcella:

😮 Paul, you’re talents are wasted on signs!!!!

quote Carrie:

Bl00dy hell Paul ….. I agree with Marcella …. perhaps a different area of work for you should be on the cards?!!

I’m not sure if this means my pictures ar great or my signs are rubbish

paul r

[David Rowland]

Thats a nice Corel there Paul… you have teh skillz… I think you must be in Stevo’s league then!

[Marcella Ross]

quote Paul Rollason:

[I’m not sure if this means my pictures ar great or my signs are rubbish

paul r

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: There all great Paul, signs and pictures!!!!!!!

[Paul Rollason]

Do you want to see another one?

paul r

[Carrie Brown]

:lol1: both are great Paul …. probably more money in animation than signs though ?? 😀

[Marcella Ross]

quote Paul Rollason:

Do you want to see another one?

paul r

yes please!

[Paul Rollason]

Here you go

paul r

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[Marcella Ross]

That one is just tops Paul! I love those VWs, they’re soooo cool!
It’s just fantastic! An unbelievable talent!

…. mental note to self….. never post any more pics of my own work 🙁

[Dave Harrison]

Great work paul. . the lighter almost looks like its been rendered in a 3d package. . and the splitscreen is stunning. Oh how I’d love an old vw splitscreen panal van for work !

[Shane Drew]

Paul, you are a talented bloke mate. I take my hat off to ya. :praise1:

[John & Dawn Roddick]

Any chance of a demo on this Paul? I’d be fascinated to see how exactly you get such amazing results.

[Patrick Donaghey]

Paul did you do a degree at uni with this type of work you would have got a first. I remember doing my degree and rendering on a computer is actually harder than by drawing by hand . PS love the Volkswagen Have 3 beetles fully restored and tried to draw/render them but to no avail

[steve geary]

Awesome Paul!!! :thumbsup:
wish i had the patience.
One question on the lighter…
The blue shade on the chrome part – I opened up the gradient to see your color combination, and they are darker than what the object really is. I thought maybe you had the tranparencey tool on it, but it’s not..
question is, did you lighten that with a tool i’m unaware of, or is it something else i’m missing??
Thanks for posting the corel file to look at.. it was fun, and knowing the program, it was great to see each of your objects. Looks easier when done and you’re picking it apart, but i know YOU have an Awesome Talent and skill to First Visualize these shapes and then put them on the screen. I sometimes play with a gradient for an hour trying to get chrome looking right.
Thanks
Again… Fabulous Paul, Bravo!
I’d love to see the cdr file on one of the V- Dubs to pick apart!!!

steve

[steve geary]

quote John Roddick:

Any chance of a demo on this Paul?

That’d be a LONG AR$$ Demo!

[Glenn Sharp]

Paul,

those images are amazing – how many hours went into the VW?

Any chance of seeing more?

[Paul Rollason]

Thanks for all the comments guys

The car pics take between 8 to 12 hours depending on how detailed you want to make them

This is the thing about vector art is that you can zoom into say a door handle or a windscreen wiper and draw it full size and make it very detailed. So you have to make a decision at some pont to call it a day.

I could take a hundred hours over one if I let myself.

Patrick, I have never had any training, formal or otherwise. Before I started signmaking 2 years ago I didn’t know there was such a thing as vectors.

My wife is a trained artist and illustrator using pens and paint. I am teaching her how to vectorise and if she picks it up she will be able to blow me out of the water with what she can produce.

Check out http://www.chloesart.com/associated.html and click the arrow until you get to Jules Burrows.

Glen, I don’t know if you saw the yellow VW I posted on another part of this forum https://www.uksignboards.com/download.php?id=8501

I must start drawing something other than VWs

I could put a demo together on a few of the techniques used in these drawings but as said above, a demo on a full drawing would be very looooong

You just need to master the fill tool and the transparency tool(two tools you rarely use in vinyl sign making) and combine this with your normal vectorizing skills and you will be surprised what you will come up with.

Give it a go

paul r

[Paul Rollason]

quote steve geary:

Awesome Paul!!! :thumbsup:
wish i had the patience.
One question on the lighter…
The blue shade on the chrome part – I opened up the gradient to see your color combination, and they are darker than what the object really is. I thought maybe you had the tranparencey tool on it, but it’s not..
question is, did you lighten that with a tool i’m unaware of, or is it something else i’m missing??

steve

Sorry Steve

I forgot about this question

I’ve just had a look at the original and there is a 68% tranparency appied to the object in question.

paul r

[Andy Gorman]

Paul, your stuff is top banana. I’ve just had a look at Jules’s pictures and they are just breathtakingly good. I bet she’s done it before, or has been practising or summink. 😉

[Kev Mayger]

I agree with Andy, top drawer stuff from the pair of you!

Kev