Rendering A Car Using Photoshop, tutorial Options

[husseindesign]

So here is a tutorial I did a while ago to describe the way I render my cars.
The most thing I payed attention for is descriping the "how". Most of the tutorials on the net talk about "what" to do, only a few or perhaps none describe "how" to do it! And that was my biggest problem when i wanted to learn digital rendering. I'm a self-tought digital paiter, so i put into this tutorial everything I missed in the other tutorials.
You won't even need a tablet to get a good result. I work only with mouse!

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1-You can start with a really rough sketch. No need to scan a clean version of it, since we'll get rid of in a later step of this Tutorial.
First, we turn the background into a layer by double clicking it. Then set the layer blending mode to Multiply. This allows us to color the sketch without having the lines vanished under the colors.


2-Next we create a new Layer (mode: Normal), set it UNDER the original sketch and add the desired color to it using Paint Bucket Tool.


3-Here’s where the fun Begins.. we select the areas that should reflect the environment’s light using the Polygon Lasso Tool .. and then paint the bottom of the selection with a large, soft brush. The color to take doesn’t have to be white.. we can take a bright hue of the BG (background) color, or (even easier) use the Dodge tool. Be sure that a half of the brush is out of the selection.


4-This step can actually be done later too. Darken the bottom of the BG color using a large, softly edged Burn tool (range: midtones).


5-Now that we have -roughly- marked the most important light/shadow areas, we reduce the opacity of the original sketch.

6-While painting new lightend areas I also start to polish up the ones I painted before.. I use the Blur Tool and the Smudge tool for that.


7-I start to paint the air intakes. BTW, I'm not leaving out steps if you were wondering.. when you see new light areas on the car's body in one of the next pictures be aware that it was done just like I did the others before them.
Now back to the air intakes, just make a new layer and select the areas you have to paint and fill them using the Paint Bucket Tool with a dark gray color.. use the Burn Tool to add shadows where they should be.


8-Now we’re gonna give the car more depth by using the Burn tool again.. this time on the upper part of the profile .. And again.. select the areas you want to paint so that you don’t get out of them .. that won’t look that good if you wnat my opinion!
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