vulgalour Posted October 14, 2014 Author Posted October 14, 2014 Here you go, a picture of Bub's spectacular and roomy box.
bub2006 Posted October 14, 2014 Posted October 14, 2014 Had a shelf in it,then ended up with zebra print and amber beacon. I did like the bike but caused me nothing but hassle.
Cheggers Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 Can't remember if I'd sent this to you, but if you fancy a challenge...
vulgalour Posted October 15, 2014 Author Posted October 15, 2014 Funnily enough, I've made a start on that one but not finished sketch enough to show you yet. Struggling most of all with the large body of water, another thing I don't draw and need to learn. In fact, I don't really draw boats at all so it's a big challenge for me.
Cheggers Posted October 15, 2014 Posted October 15, 2014 I don't think I have a decent close-up unfortunately. Maybe zoom in and crop some of the wet stuff out??
vulgalour Posted October 15, 2014 Author Posted October 15, 2014 With boat pictures, the wet stuff is fairly important I think.
vulgalour Posted October 16, 2014 Author Posted October 16, 2014 I know less about water craft than I do about motorbikes, I have literally no idea what the majority of the things I've drawn above actually are so I get the feeling it's wrong. Still, I can at least say I've now drawn a boat/yacht/ship/dinghy or whatever it's called, which is something I hadn't done before. Over to you, Cheggers, since you know this craft better than I do. Sloth in a bowl and Cheggers 2
Cheggers Posted October 16, 2014 Posted October 16, 2014 Now that's really impressive! - you've captured the sail shapes and movement through the water brilliantly. If I had a hat I'd take it off to you. That is seriously, seriously good
vulgalour Posted October 16, 2014 Author Posted October 16, 2014 It'll be better with colour, which will happen, because it would be criminal not to colour in that magnificent sail. Have you got a picture of the boat in better resolution so I can figure out what's going on with the deck fixtures? I can't really work it out from the reference picture and zooming in just confuses things.
Cavcraft Posted October 16, 2014 Posted October 16, 2014 If I had a hat I'd take it off and put it under the sea for you. He's captured that!
TimothyClaypole Posted October 16, 2014 Posted October 16, 2014 Just a test on mdf. Need to figure out the conversion to 1bit bitmaps or whatever it is the laser wants. I've not done any engraving as such only a few little badges as being a Chinese laser it is VERY slow at it against a UK/US laser but then again there's the 18K price difference... this took best part of 50 minutes - it works like a dot matrix printer for engraving so think back to printing pictures on listing paper.
vulgalour Posted October 16, 2014 Author Posted October 16, 2014 If you needed a better quality scan of the original at higher resolution I can fire one off to you via e-mail. Dot matrix engraving is clearly the future*.
TimothyClaypole Posted October 16, 2014 Posted October 16, 2014 I'll have a fiddle about over the weekend and see what I can do. I'll resize it smaller so I can test things quicker rather than doing it that size.
drum Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 You could fire it into a 3D printer and have a proper viva!
Sloth in a bowl Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 Cheggers01.jpg I know less about water craft than I do about motorbikes, I have literally no idea what the majority of the things I've drawn above actually are so I get the feeling it's wrong. Still, I can at least say I've now drawn a boat/yacht/ship/dinghy or whatever it's called, which is something I hadn't done before. Over to you, Cheggers, since you know this craft better than I do. There's a higher proportion of rich boatists than car drivers. It may be worth your time finding the correct yachting forum to show what you can do. My father used to get commissions for water colours of steam engines off various people, not because he was a great painter, but because they had seen that he could fulfill a request of a particular train/place combo to an acceptable standard. He even had a small run of drawings of trains that where designed but never built shown in real locations, for one of the magazines.
vulgalour Posted October 17, 2014 Author Posted October 17, 2014 I'll have to investigate further. Trouble is I know next to nothing about boats and they don't excite me particularly and I need to be excited at least a little bit to actually want to create a picture. Bonus to Chegger's picture is the sail is something I find really interesting and stimulating so that's the bit I'm enjoying most. Steam engines I adore, I still haven't got around to drawing a steam lorry which I really ought to do. I don't know why I don't draw more steam powered stuff, I love everything about them.
Cheggers Posted October 17, 2014 Posted October 17, 2014 The busiest UK boating forums are on www.ybw.com - I agree there must be a market for boat pics, as folks charge a fortune for professional photographs of their yachts (Google "Beken of Cowes" for an idea of the sort of pics they sell)
vulgalour Posted October 17, 2014 Author Posted October 17, 2014 They charge more for prints than I do for original artwork!
vulgalour Posted October 17, 2014 Author Posted October 17, 2014 You know it's fast approaching THAT TIME of year right? Well it just so happens I am currently wide open to take new work on. Here's a little advert. So if you want to really impress someone then you should totally buy some artwork from me. I'll draw just about anything, it doesn't have to have wheels on it. I enjoy drawing the mundane, the bizarre and even the shambolic but I don't just draw people. Oh no, I draw houses and pets and cars and boats and bikes and I'll even have a stab at aeroplanes and helicopters. Really, you name it and I'll have a go at drawing it, the list just there is by no means exhaustive. Order now and let me put the effort in to your festive gift so that you don't have to! Prices (for A4, includes P&P worldwide): Sketch - £10http://autoshite.com/uploads/monthly_02_2014/post-5335-0-48750400-1391912131.jpg Ink only - £20http://autoshite.com/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-5335-0-46257400-1394817582.jpg Ink & Colour - £40 http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/053/7/9/2014_28_by_art_of_angyl-d77jx8c.jpg Colour only - £60http://autoshite.com/uploads/monthly_01_2014/post-5335-0-15323200-1390878558.jpg Micrashed 1
vulgalour Posted October 27, 2014 Author Posted October 27, 2014 Time to try and clear the decks with a sale of original artworks at vastly reduced prices. There is an additional £3.50 P&P per order, but this is not limited to the number of items you purchase. Payment can be made by Paypal, cheque and direct bank transfer. ZAZ poster - £10 Wolseley Six - £5 Panhard PL17 - £SOLD Vauxhall Viva - £SOLD Reliant Kitten - £SOLD Datsun 240Z - £SOLD Dodge Coronet station wagon - £20 SAAB 96 - £30 World Montage - £50 (this one is A3) Volvo P1800 - £SOLD Ford Capri - £SOLD Bubble Cars - £60 (this one is A3) Hamble's Excursions - £SOLD Mini Clubman - £30 Buick Electra - £20 Range Rover - £SOLD Austin A90 Atlantic - £SOLD Ford Escort XR3i - £SOLD All of the above, unless otherwise stated, are A4 in size and a combination of ink and watercolour. Available on a strictly first come/paid first served basis. I really need some of these to sell, so please do spread the word and link back here to anyone that might be interested, I'll be doing the same. garycox, fordperv and Micrashed 3
vulgalour Posted November 4, 2014 Author Posted November 4, 2014 2nd Prize from the Tombola went to shiter Purplebargeken and here it is... allbeit with the carefully painted off-white of the Volvo completely washed out by my recalcitrant scanner. Seriously, the white paint of the car in reality is a pale cream but on this scan it looks like I haven't even bothered. Should've seen the state of the green when initially scanned too, it was like I'd used sodding highlighter pens! I'm getting pretty narked off with my scanner, it keeps resetting itself to scan in the stupidest way it can, manual calibration or not. fordperv, drum and worldofceri 3
purplebargeken Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Ooooooooooh, bloody wonderful, shonkey scanner or not. Thank you very much indeed
skattrd Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Angyl, are the above pics on the post from 27/10 still for sale? I may be interested in a couple if they are.
vulgalour Posted November 5, 2014 Author Posted November 5, 2014 Caught your PM before the above comment, marked the appropriate ones as sold. Not many left now.
vulgalour Posted December 29, 2014 Author Posted December 29, 2014 Finished Bub2006's Honda picture today, and very pleased with it I am too. I don't know that I'll do more bike pictures for myself but I wouldn't be averse to commissioned ones if that tickled anyone's fancy. They do take me a lot longer on account of how fiddly they are. PhilA, Largactil, fordperv and 6 others 9
bub2006 Posted December 29, 2014 Posted December 29, 2014 That's awesome mate. I do miss that bike if I'm honest vulgalour 1
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