Basic Fire truck line art beginnings.

[Dottonedan]

Basic Fire truck line art beginnings. Love me some Fire Department jobs.

[Command-Z]

Nice and clean!

[JBLUE]

Clean but why is the rear wheel towed out in the back. Sorry but I am a car guy and notice that stuff.....

[Dottonedan]

Clean but why is the rear wheel towed out in the back. Sorry but I am a car guy and notice that stuff.....

NOt sure what you mean by "towed out". Might just be the way the line art looks without shading. Shading gives more understanding to what's going on.  It's pretty accurate fer as I can tell.


Now you got me looking at it again.      and is why we have this place to post up works in progress for feedback like this. So speak up. 


Those circle lines are for guidance per say to the shape of the tire. Not to be identifying a circle tire, but more so for shading the lines follow into the rounded form. That far right side (crescent moon shape) for example is where it will show more of the (top of the tire) while the lines help me to follow the fold over of the tire for shadowing.


Follow my folds?

[Frog]

I think that he is mostly referring to the rim giving the wheel the look of being turned slightly to the right, rather than a dead-on side view

[JBLUE]

I think that he is mostly referring to the rim giving the wheel the look of being turned slightly to the right, rather than a dead-on side view

Yes you got it. The rim looks to far off center of the axle.

[Dottonedan]

Could be.  I only draw whats in front of me. I might have miss placed or miss something on something.

[Prosperi-Tees]

On a dead on side view you should not see the tread of the tire.

[screenxpress]

I think that it's all about how close (or far) you perceive you are to the truck. 

The farther out a person is looking at a flat object, everything should appear nearly equal as one dimensional and both wheels would look concentric.

As you get closer to an object distortion will naturally occur. 

If I was standing say within 15 foot of that truck, surely I would not see the right inner part of the rear wheel, nor the left inner part of the front wheel.  But then I would expect other differences.  Much like a road going off in the distance where things gets smaller and smaller. 

At the end of the day, what's the custy want?

BTW Dan, it looks nice, regardless of the wheels.  More patience than I have.

Now if LeMorris was drawing this, I'd say anything goes on wheel placement. 

[Denis Kolar]

Clean but why is the rear wheel towed out in the back. Sorry but I am a car guy and notice that stuff.....

4 wheel steering

That is the newest fire truck gizmo.

[mk162]

some buses have it to make it around tight corners...might not be a bad idea for fire trucks.

[Dottonedan]

I forgot to mention, this customer sent in the photo with his masking on it to take out the background. You can sort of see a chop into the top of the tire as it reaches the right side bottom.
When you adjust the photo you can see more clearly that that top of tire should wrap around the whole right side more to complete the circle. Looks chopped off in the photo.


But I would say that yea, it is a straight on photo but not the tire. it doe show more of a degree being pitched out. As if the photographer took the back shot from standing closer to the right front (just off center) right and then took the shot of the front of the truck from more of a straight on view.  I sometimes take two separate shots to get better detail if I can't get back far enough to get the whole truck into view at one time. So that might explain it.

[blue moon]

what you are seeing is shot taken with wide angle lense. At an extreme case it's called a fish-eye, in this shot the distortion is just enough to show the sided of both front and back wheels.

pierre

[Command-Z]

The second elipse you're using to show the back of the tire is a tad large, that's all. THe perspective looks good, just reduce the size of the back of the tire so it doesn't look bulgey.

[GraphicDisorder]

Wow beat the guy up why don't you guys lol.