First one out of the Paddock

Mark Skaife's #1 Mobil 1 Racing 2013 Skoda MissionL concept.


Note: The paint scheme is very close to the Mark Skaife's 1998 HRT VS Commodore V8 Supercar paint scheme that Mark Skaife and Jason Bright used, but it's modernized.

I can see you are making alot of chops lately, which is great.
But there are alot of simple errors on the car.

First thing would be the arches and the whole car, they are very roughly traced out.
Have a look into learning to use pen tool when you are tracing out the car, it will give a much better result and faster too.

As for the Mobile 1 logos, im not sure why the look squiggly, it should instead follow the shape of the body of the car. so take some time to stud the shape of the car, and how the logos should bend to follow the car.

The color of the car is too saturated, so lower the saturation of the red, make it darker and add a touch of contrast.

WIndow's of the car looks too greyish, make them brighter and add more contrast to make it look more appealing.

Just remember to pay attention to detail and try to make everything perfect, such as deleting the white areas from the car vinyl so it doesn't look messy and take some time to look closely at photos of real cars and try to replicate them and aim for realism.
Also have a look into the tutorial section, plenty of great tips there

But I recalled you saying you dont have photoshop, so that may be an issus
Keep on chopping and good luck

Thanks for the help and yes, the MissionL picture that I used was weird so that's why the arches look weird.


The is paint I replicated the paint from.

The arches are selected/cut out in straight chunky shapes, keep it smooth, and for that hes refering to a pentool tutorial.
You might want to use a different tool in GIMP, we have a chopper ATC-Design(s?) who was able to match photoshop quality stuff with the software so it should be possible!

Your ideas are really good.

Therefore, I award you 10 stars

as an idea it is nice, but execution lacks pretty much at this stage
brian and j_hui mentioned the key bits, those tips should help out pretty much i think

keep practising

+1 what nordic said.

the idea is good, but the chop is too jagged, and you can see some parts of the car in the background.

Thanks!, I've decided to do those tips and put it towards a Renault Fluence V8 Supercar.

Steven Johnson's Dick Johnson Racing Renault Fluence:



This is Steven Johnson's 2011 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 paint scheme from Saturday.