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Spit-Shine Car Wash

cardlin

Published: Dec 13, 2024

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Just a quickie, the car wash, a minor location that I had a cool idea for. It was converted from a quonset hut that was built in the early 1940s when it was a lumberyard. The lumber company moved locations and the car wash was established a year later.

Im not entirely happy with this one, because of the lines on the dome part of the building. It makes it look less like a smooth dome and more like a rounded triangle. That angle is incredibly hard to work with for such a thing.

On an unrelated note, I’m very close to reaching 100 followers on twitter, and 400 watchers here on dA. I’ve decided to celebrate both occasions, I’ll upload that old comic that I’ve mentioned before. It’s about 20 pages long, and I’ve been so embarrassed by it for so long that I scrubbed it from all accounts and kept it in the bottom drawer of my desk. But this is special, and I think it should be here for archival purposes if anything, no matter how bad it is.

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Sue-Doughnim

Dec 16, 2024

I can't say I'm a good artist, but from my engineering drafting experience, when drawing details on the surface of a cylinder, get a Pringles can (or something like it), tape some paper to it, sketch your details on that (or sketch them on before taping) , then use that as a perspective guide for your actual sketch. That or use a ton of geometry to measure out key points.