Finally done as i say. Thanks to the white highlight help from Dani! Thanks to all wip watchers!

There are a couple small areas like the mirrors i'm not pleased about but i want to move on. But i must say i like the brush tactic and i'll look into a crazier kitted car to try these highlight ideas on so look out in the near future.

I hope in some aspects i'm getting closer to pro but i don't think this is that chop unless you do


Orig:



Chop:

Not a bad attempt Tbh.
But:
-you need to add some more different tones and shades. (either brush or use burn tool)
-some of the door shut lines are overlapped by highlights (The bit under the side mirrors
-brush some more of the shiny dots / highlights on the car. (people love shiny cars )
-make the highlights for some of the shutlines stronger makes it look less toony, and never use the same tone / opacity for the highlights around the whole car or else it will look fake.

So in a nutshell here's my C&C in the form of a picture (10mins work):

Hope my tips were sorta helpful, lol. keep on chopping!!!

J_HUI said it all.
Great try, but you should practise a bit more on your brushing

Looks very, very flat imo. It definitely needs some shades and highlights. What I recommend doing is grab a pic like this one I found of flickr.

Then use that as a sort of colour reference for your car. So using the eyedropper tool pick colours off the car and then use those colours to brush. It'll give the car much more depth and give it more shape than what it has now That pic is particularly good because it gives you a good spectrum of the colours that you'll need to brush

nice work..

Thanks guys! Especially j_hui and klaus!