This time I decided to go old school haven't done an older truck in a while, and yet another attempt at black. I hope I did well on this. Overall I am pleased with the outcome. Enjoy!

Original:



Chop:



HR:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/chevysub10.jpg/

WIP:

Looks good mate. Love the design ideas and overall it's very well done.

Black is a very hard color to get right though, so naturally there are some pointers on that.
The reflections look too much straightforward c/p, they should be more distorted, especially near the rear arch. Now they just kinda fade away there, but they should bend along with the curve of the body and stay just as sharp at the top as everywhere else.
On the hood you got two sets of reflections overlapping, the blower and the BG. This can never be irl. It's one or the other, reflections don't work as light and shadow. And my last pointer. The glass, both the windows as the headlights. The windows look way too bright to me, almost like there's some sort of tinted foil put on it, which might be what you were going for? And the headlights should be darker, and less of the headlights beneath it should be visible

Looks good man. The wheels have reflections of a flash/light so that doesn't match the current setting. I'd also give the windows some more reflections and unless the white/silver look wasn't intentional they should be darker imo or more like this if it was: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23799516/wald_mercedes-benz_s-klasse_1.jpg

The chrome trim on the top of the windows is a bit jaggy too. Could be from uploading/saving/resizing but using some little blur helps a lot.

At Sam ref on the hood i wasn't sure about. But now i know. The plexi on the headlights was darker and had no reefs at first then i changed it. Thanks for you're critiques. At Brian that was the look i wanted for my windows.

Looks great m8 love it
those side refs are awesome but windows are a bit weird to much light on them
they should be darker
and that front bumper should be e bit shinier
btw that as a said before looks great

At Brian that was the look i was going for on the windows. Very helpfull. Thanks. At Gile thanks for the critique extensions. I think i may start doing wip threads.

You've got some great c+c above, so if you can take that on board it will help a lot
One of the hardest things to get your head around when brushing is the overall lighting, which I think you've got mostly spot on with the paint here

But as sam said the reflections need some distorting - cars tend to stretch the reflections a lot along the length of them - take your time to look at real cars and you'll see that it really does
Some nice ideas though actually, and a very original chop You're improving all the time Keep going!

Thanks ATC. I will do this. I've come to far to quit chopping now.