Scirocco art - Illustration v2 pt. 1 - Complete!

[patrick.bureau at gmail.com (Patrick Bureau)]

Easy Cathy, he only emailed it 11 hours ago (grin)..

I think he needs to contact Foose Performance in California. you have
alot of talent my friend, and I do hope you are pursuing this talent
of yours.

Cheers.. and nice drawings.



On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 08:21:32 -0500 (EST), C Boyko
<roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> OKay, what's with the list? We all dive in on an unfortunate young man who
> was killed by a Scirocco (allegedly) but NOBODY comments on this gorgeous
> stuff? They're amazing, and the reference photo should make us all want to
> go out and hug our cars, that's exactly the sort of project we all
> consider worthy when most "normal people" would have no idea what that
> vehicle's potential is.
> 
> Nice stuff there. I'm liking it a lot!
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Adobe Illustrator CS. Lots of hours.
> >
> > Reference Photo:
> > http://www.xgtgx.com/img/scirocco-reference.jpg
> >
> > Illustration:
> > http://www.xgtgx.com/img/doorclosed.gif
> > http://www.xgtgx.com/img/dooropen.gif
> >
> > I drew a lot of it freehand and scanned. It's all original, though. very
> > little tracing. I traced the major body lines from the reference photo,
> > then traced the new lines (arches, bumpers, hatch spoiler) from the
> > various scanned sketches. Details and actual refining of the lines was
> > done from scratch directly in illustrator. The wheels were traced from the
> > [BBS S-RS] wheels on my BMW but with a little more lip. The interior is
> > modeled after a ferrari interior, but I had to redraw it from scratch at
> > the right perspective. Porsche inspired cluster. Doors like the SL300
> > (with their really high door sills).
> > Still a few things I'm going to tweak a bit, but the next step is to
> > export to photoshop and color it. Expect that in a couple weeks at least.
> >
> > I did another similar illustration about 6 months ago:
> >
> > http://www.xgtgx.com/img/scirocco-web1.jpg
> >
> > and thought since i left it stock I'd do another version that was highly
> > modified. If I could build this car, I would. Things like the vents and
> > the notches in the rear bumper (not to mention the doors) are probably
> > controversial, but would probably be much more subtle in reality and will
> > look more that way once its colored.
> >
> > And on an unrelated note:
> > I get to see my Scirocco again in 4 days!  I've missed it so much :(  No
> > driving this time, but still...
> >
> >
> > -Grant-
> > Annapolis, MD/Louisville, KY
> > 1980 in storage :(
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> >
> 
> 
> Cathy
> 1999 TDI New Beetle
> 1987 2L 16V Scirocco
> 1979 1.8L 10:1 8V
> "Scirocco-(noun)- A hot wind which causes severe headaches"
> 
> 
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