ngdawg

For those who are new to the game, this is Fly's bike. Well, not his exactly, but I drew it in Illustrator about a year and a half ago for him:

It would get a lot of attention at art fests, mostly from biker types, but I think the pinkish color and maybe the background was a turn-off, so I decided to make a few changes:





Hardest part was finding backgrounds that went off to the left! One of these is reversed, but that can't always be done.

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Datalife2

Thats cool. I like the last one.

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MexicanOnABike

3rd one is off a bit. not a great shot.
2nd one is the worst because it looks like a floating bike.
1st is awesome except that you used a filter when it wasn't needed. or it looks like you did and that to me, makes the picture look low rez and unfinished. bring it back to full rez without anything to it, and then you'll have something!

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God of Thunder

Those are fantastic. Great job on them.

I love the bridge one the best.

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ngdawg

Interesting takes-I thought the covered bridge one was off because the bike looks like it's leaning and the snow one, the front wheel looks like it's not on the pavement right, but the shadow works...
If i only used the original photos, then it'd look like a bike drawing stuck on a photo; my attempts were to blend it all like one piece. If I had the time, it'd actually be best to draw the backgrounds in Illustrator like I did the bike.
Maybe flattening the bottoms of the tires just a little bit might make it seem less like it's in the air?
They do print better than they appear, looking more blended but it's that appearance of it not being set down that I have to work on.

Sun Tzu

I remember when you posted when some of it was done, but I never saw the final piece. Bravo!!!!

How big was the file when you were done?

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ngdawg

The printed work (I had it printed on canvas) was about 11x14 by choice. Since I kept the orginal vector drawing, I could probably blow it larger.

Sun Tzu

Sorry I meant the file size. Some vector projects I have worked on in the past became huge as I finished them.

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Fly

jesus ng..........you just keep making it better and better.


awesome job.


thank you


this is what colour the bike is now.......

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Lasereth

I looked into some older threads to see how you made the bikes. Forgive my ignorance but it seems that a real picture was blown up to a huge proportion to make even pixels seem enormous and then it was traced onto a new canvas. Is it more complicated than that? There are filters out there that do the same thing. Isn't copying a blown up pixel the equivalent to copying a huge 6 inch circle on the screen for a really long time? I imagine if you copy enough 6 inch pixels long enough when you finally zoom it out will resemble something. All it would take is the ability to replicate overblown pixels for a hundred hours.

Or am I not seeing how this works??

ngdawg

Well, Lasareth, you oversimplified it a bit. Yes, the bike is drawn (in Illustrator) by 'blowing up pixels' to about 6400%, but it's not exact-it's my interpretation. Sort of like making a quilt-taking sections at a time (and I really never knew what section I was doing due to the largeness), then refining them, changing what needed to be changed(such as reflections) and creating backdrops.
Any time you see 'realistic' drawings posted in sites proclaiming "drawn with Illustrator", that's how it's done.

Fly: Ok, that's just spooky...I had no idea he'd changed the bike to blue! Maybe I should put a similar graphic on it now!

Fly

if you want any detailed photos.............just let me know and they're yours baby.......


my bro in-law who owns the bike had,another bro in-law do the paint.............the freakin' guy is amazing.......


just let me know.

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ngdawg

Don't know why I didn't think of this to begin with...
Fly's bike at midnight

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troit

The last one of the first three - talk about a cold ride!

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