Cartoon Car

Logo making seems to be eluding me these days, but the traffic jam of funny cars at the Xara forum tickled my fancy. So here is a cartoon car created entirely in PI. The sketch I scanned in and used as a reference for 2d path work in PI was totally hideous, however, so I'm not going to include it. The final artwork(:rolleyes: ) looks reasonably OK, though. C'mon Kiwi. I know you want to...

Cool. It needs some goofy characters inside it.

I love the cartoon car, and it would look good rumbling under the purring engine too.

Love your car GM!:D
Yep, you're right, I would like to be able to do one as good but my artistic ability might be a bit lacking here:(
Will try anyway later but don't hold your breath as my (ball anim) is about a third of the way to finishing. (Becoming an obsession:eek: )
Love to know how you did the shaped lines on your car in PI?

You could probably do it easily in Xara. Then export the lineart for coloring in PI, or just simply finish the entire thing in Xara. The hard part for me was to get the flow of the lines right. Lines leads the eyesight, and for styles like these, I guess I was going for a flow from the center upwards, curving to the left and right, while the bumper forms a smiley mouth. Very subliminal, but that's how I feel caricatures and cartoony styles work.
I have a set of 2D path on lines I keep in my pallette. I just drag them out and switch to path edit mode. I usually just duplicate and edit them as I go along. Attached is the zipped PI8 file of those objects. Very cumbersome compared to Xara brushes, but I guess I do things the hard way, just to punish myself...:D
Bob, goofy characters.... I guess I would have to draw a group caricature of the members here in TG ...:D.
Nah, caricatures eludes me, too.

:)

Thank's GM!
I saved your lines and had a look at them in PI ... a few months ago I tried doing the same thing but found it too time consuming.
It was for that same reason that I found Xara (Stroke shapes) but now realise there is a bit more to xara than just that lol.
Makes your car even more special, knowing the extra work it took to get looking right.. Well done!:D

Yes, your car is very special.

And I can see the editable vector properties when I node edit it, but how in the world do you get the thick and thin line weight? Do tell, G-man.

Open the shape on path dialog box. There are options for changing the start and end sizes, as well as the number and spacing of the shape you're deforming on the path. The original shape was just an oval, or a rounded rectangle, I think...

Are you working in PI 8? And exactly what is the way you pull up that palette or dialogue box, I did a search in both PI 8 and in 10 and couldn't find what you had done.

You know stuff this program doesn't know it can do, by golly.

Sometimes I have to play this card, I am blonde you know.

I like it! I like it! I like it!. I guess you might say, I like it.l


***** Norman.

I tend to get very careless with the terms and proper names of the various tools I use. I guess I have this bad habit of renaming them in my mind after I use them for a while. The proper term would be Path Warp and the Wrap Properties dialog box. Here is an interesting tutorial site I just found:
http://www.crabbyplace.net/PI/tuts/p.../pathwrap2.htm.

Yes I like that, it is good. I was thinking what you did what like stroking a path, however the amount of paint was definitely more interesting than I have been able to do myself. Have to play with it a bit more.

OK GM!
I tried drawing a cartoon car with PI .... I give up!
Looks a real cartoon:eek:

Gonna av a go with Xara instead..

...or perhaps I might take up working or something silly like that instead??

:D .
Try sketching on paper first. Develop it enough before doing it on the computer. Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to draw loosely on the computer. They always seem to come out too stiff and mechanical.

No worries bout this one being too mechanical ... made of putty perhaps??
No PI here ... cept me maybe!
But I tried:confused:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ster/V-BUB.jpg

Ooooooo! I like that one, especially the bubbly tires!!!!!!!

Funny that you decided to draw a VW beetle, Kiwi. I also had one among my sketches when I was playing around with ideas on what type of car to draw before posting my pic. It's definitely a cartoony car. :D
Very well done. See, that wasn't so hard, was it :D ? And it gets easier with practice. Bob will agree to that, I think. His drawings just seem to flow directly from his mind into a final picture, from what I see in his thread. :cool:

which bob? me?

Yes, you. Or one of your clones, elves, or whatever gang of Bobs you have working to come up with the torrent of drawings you're posting...:D. . That's really a lot of great drawings you're producing. You are one drawing machine Bob :D .

well, gee, thanks gman
actually it seems there ARE a ton of bobs around this forum
and some that perhaps remain to be hidden
calling all bobs!!!!! come out and show yourselves!!!!!!!

:D
"Then a bunch of Bobs bobbed up the surface of the Talkgraphics Ocean, bobbing up and down with smiley faces painted on their bowling pin shaped bodies"
And I thought I was weird, talking to myself while drawing something...:eek: :D

hahahahahahaha, yes, definitely weird