How I make my renderings...

[JC Basses]

Lately I have been getting quite a few emails regarding my bass guitar renderings and how I make them. Instead of trying to explain it to each person individually, I thought I would share it with everyone. I am by no means a "pro" at Photoshop, this is just my way of doing it.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlESs90Ltc4

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZAs64_hbY

Since it is on YouTube, it is of course really small and hard to see. Sound isn't that great either, but hopefully it will help everyone out. I uploaded the full size original version for those interested:

http://www.mediafire.com/?rjoimtuwctr

Let me know if you have any questions either here or on YouTube. Thanks.

[Alduroth]

Great, It seems so easy to make awesome stuff, nice tutorial
but how did you make the bass drawing so neat? I'm a very sketchy person.
btw, you can make a grid in CS4 so you dont have to eye it down whats the middle :P

[JC Basses]

Originally Posted by Alduroth

Great, It seems so easy to make awesome stuff, nice tutorial
but how did you make the bass drawing so neat? I'm a very sketchy person.

I didn't include that in the video because that is the time consuming part. I usually just draw the bass on a piece of paper and scan it in. I then use the magic wand and eraser to get the bass by itself. It just takes time and patience.

[Darkstrike]

awesome, really awesome!


Where do you get all the cool layers, walnut, tuners and such?

[JC Basses]

Originally Posted by Darkstrike

awesome, really awesome!


Where do you get all the cool layers, walnut, tuners and such?

I have most of the pictures of the wood from my own wood. For the tuners I just took a picture of a tuner and did the same process as the bass to get something that looks "real".

[Darkstrike]

Originally Posted by JC Basses

I have most of the pictures of the wood from my own wood. For the tuners I just took a picture of a tuner and did the same process as the bass to get something that looks "real".

Ah, sweet! They look fantastic.

[DBC]

JC, Thank you for sharing you're talent. Following you're procedures!, I have tried so many times and got so frustrated and gave up. Every Application is great if you are experienced with it. The Cad programs I run function so much differently.
Also a tutorial that is geared toward what you want to use it for makes it even more easily to follow and apply it to your use.

Thanks, Dino

[Hopper]

Very useful, thank you.

Sticky!

[john turner]

Originally Posted by Hopper

Very useful, thank you.

Sticky!

i agree on both counts.

[zagnut]

Originally Posted by JC Basses

Since it is on YouTube, it is of course really small and hard to see.

For those that don't know, they can be viewed in fullscreen by clicking the second icon from the right on the bottom of the viewing screen.

Good job!

[JC Basses]

Originally Posted by zagnut

For those that don't know, they can be viewed in fullscreen by clicking the second icon from the right on the bottom of the viewing screen.

Good job!

That is true, but makes everything blurry.

[Darkstrike]

Add "&fmt=18" to the end of the links, will bring them up in high quality without blur.

[zagnut]

Originally Posted by JC Basses

That is true, but makes everything blurry.

Are the originals in wmv format and smaller than 100mb each? If you're interested, I can tell you where you can host them and help you embed them in this post. That way people can download them or watch them in a separate window at whatever size they want.

[JC Basses]

Originally Posted by zagnut

Are the originals in wmv format and smaller than 100mb each? If you're interested, I can tell you where you can host them and help you embed them in this post. That way people can download them or watch them in a separate window at whatever size they want.

The original is .mov and is 55mb roughly. I would host it on my site, but I think I might be over the max bandwidth if too many people download it.

[zagnut]

Originally Posted by JC Basses

The original is .mov and is 55mb roughly. I would host it on my site, but I think I might be over the max bandwidth if too many people download it.

I'm not sure on what kind of bandwidth the site I use has, so streaming / embedding them might not be a good idea. But if you wanted people to be able to download the original for higher quality and bigger screen size, may I recommend uploading them to http://www.mediafire.com/?

Free to join, I never get spam mail from them and they have really fast download speeds.

[JC Basses]

Thanks, I updated the original post with the link to download the file.

[bronzehydra]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[eleonn]

Jared... really nice tutorial!!

[scottyd]

I've been playing around with this lately and it's really interesting, what did you use to draw the pictures that you start out with?

[JC Basses]

Originally Posted by scottyd

I've been playing around with this lately and it's really interesting, what did you use to draw the pictures that you start out with?

I usually draw it on a piece of paper. I find it way easier to draw by hand. Scan it in and start to delete all the unneeded areas.