UPDATED: redrew the hoods by hand, fine-tuned some stuff. Love to have done the whole thing on a gesso'ed board...Tommy, I'm striving to hit my Fuch'ing Peak, indeed!
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Firebird Men
My pal Peet has written a few stories for Autoweek over the last few years, and for Father's Day this year he's submitted a little opus about the time his dad came home with a brand new Firebird...but sans the famous flaming chicken on the hood. Which struck 9 year old Peet as profoundly tragic. And 36 years later, worthy of comment.
UPDATED: redrew the hoods by hand, fine-tuned some stuff. Love to have done the whole thing on a gesso'ed board...Tommy, I'm striving to hit my Fuch'ing Peak, indeed!
UPDATED: redrew the hoods by hand, fine-tuned some stuff. Love to have done the whole thing on a gesso'ed board...Tommy, I'm striving to hit my Fuch'ing Peak, indeed!
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Maybe what I need to do is hand draw all the birds and hoods in the BKG...? Might give the whole image a little more "human warmth"...??
Don't mess with or second guess yourself. You'll probably get a ton of work from people that want this look Vs a CGI look..
Looks awesome. Technical illustration was all technical pens and templates. Now it would all be illustrator or cgi. Do this kind of work for the 100 fans that you want.
Remember Wally Wood. Copy, trace or steal it. Reverse that order if you want Wood's method in preferred order.
What you've got is already beautiful Marty. Any way to crop in a little closer to the car and the figures? Are the eagles on a separate Photoshop layer? Any way to quickly unite the color palette a bit more with color overlays?
you are way way way way way way too hard on yourself, Marty. This looks terrific. I want to get the Johnny Quest license and hire you to draw the comic... that's what this drawing invoked for me.
Looks great to me. There was something kind of 'chaotic' in the art from Peak that I liked and disliked. He also seemed to prefer color combinations that were both gross and compelling at the same time.
Thanks dudes--glad to hear you think it's OK. But Tom Moon, what are thinking about with the color scheme on the birds? All of those color combos are specific to options offered on the cars back then, and are mention in the story...I threw a couple scrims over them to get the fade out at the bottom but also give them a more unifying (and nostalgic?) golden hue...the horrible blue/gold sidestripe on the car is what's buggin me most and I've replaced that.
Please do tell!!
I would like to be closer to the figures, too--I'm going to give the PSD to the magazine and figure they can scale the elements to best effect for their layout.
...I guess?
If the color combos are specifically mentioned and in the story then leave it as is and forget everything I said! Looks great as is.
I googled Bernie Fuchs work and just made that throwaway suggestion with the idea in mind of making the work look more Bernie-Fuchs-y.
The art gets better every time I look at it. It is ready for publication. The only worry for me would be "Do I know CMYK well enough that these are the colors that will show up in the mag."
Or is this internet only? It won't be long before everything is exclusive to the Web.
Many of you probably gave Tom Green's show a pass. Fairly often it had the angle of annoying people just to catch the reactions of annoyed people. In fact that was central to his schtick.
One time he airbrushed a hardcore porno scene onto the hood of his Mom and Dad's Pontiac. Completely rendering the vehicle unusable. Just to record his Mom and Dad's anger/disappointment/annoyance.
I need to Fuch this up...or have I already?
It's not Fuched up. It's just about to Peak.
I first googled "Recent Movie Posters" and then "Old Movie Posters". The difference is so striking. Interesting how photography has taken over that whole field that used to belong to illustrators.
This is great. I immediately thought this was a piece from an old magazine, then I read the signature and then the whole post. Don't understand anyone's references.
They both look good. Flip a coin
I like the hand-drawn ones better.
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