I have always been a fan of Brian Biggs' work so I wanted to try one of his different ways of working where he would only use three different colours and any new ones would have to be made by overlapping in the correct areas.
So I began by sketching a rough outline of what I wanted my car to look like.
I then started inking over parts of the car which I wanted in colour by using a light box to see my original sketch.
I then ended up with three different layers for the three colours I was planning on using, these layers overlapped in certain places, were left alone on others and not coloured in at all on selected areas.
Once I had scanned all three layers into photoshop I arranged them in the same document ready to colour each layer separately.
relating back to the unit 3 work I remembered the DIY CMYK printing and decided that this would be a good colour scheme to go with because of the similarity in techniques.
Once all layers were coloured and layered into position, this is what they looked like
If I turned on multiply this then mixed any coloured areas which overlapped creating three new colours, red, green, dark blue and obviously black if all three layers crossed.
I then started experimenting with which colour was which on the layers.
and eventually some of my colour ways looked quite pleasing
And here we have my favourite three combinations of colour which I chose to take onto the next stage of the emulation.
I now needed to start developing a background for my work as I had seen other examples of these types of cars done by Brian with skies and roads in them.
I thought it would be nice to see the three different cars all together in somewhat of a race scenario so this is what I did
And here we have the finished piece complete with speed lines similar to some of the originals. I am very happy with these cars and the way that this experimental technique has payed off.
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