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First car outline/color

For my friends birthday I wanted/did an outline and coloring of his favorite car (it's a 240 s13 btw). This is my first time doing this and was wondering if the fine artists that GB has could give me some pointers on what I could do in the future.

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Here is a cool trick you can add to make it look a little more stylized!

Not sure what program you're using to make this, but select all the colors of the body, so basically all the greens - then select a darker cool color (dark green or maybe evne dark blue in this case) and put a light gradient over it. It will add a little more depth to the picture!

It's hard to explain but this is what I mean:

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@humanity I did what you said and it looks SO MUCH better! ^_^

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@monkeyman04: Yah! Experiment with different colors like maybe use purple or something crazy, mix and match - generally you want to use cool colors for shadows and warm colors for highlights. You can also try doing this same technique on individual pieces like outline just the door and add a light gradient to it as well, the hood, the side mirror etc. Just don't go overboard! Glad it helped.

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@humanity: I've done more gradient work and I feel like a dumb ass from not thinking of it. >_< Again thanks for telling me about it.

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@cirdain: I like the design, but what I'm try to get is a pure outline (which I hope I did) and then a color that will somewhat match the original pic. At the moment I'm not an artist of cars (I wish I was). ^_^

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Ok... This is the last one for the night. Thanks for the help @humanity

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