Showerthought: Tatra should get back into building passenger vehicles as ultra-luxury armored cars.

"dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter" (dsigned001) 07/16/2018 at 23:26 • Filed to: None

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Like this, but bombproof

Tatra has been out of the car game for a while, and they probably can’t afford to build a whole line of cars. Armored cars are high margin, and Tatra could build some pretty awesome cars that are designed to be armored from the get go.

Nibby > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/17/2018 at 00:25

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phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/17/2018 at 00:49

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Welp, there’s my morning warm up sketch theme.  

ranwhenparked > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/17/2018 at 09:00

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About 8-10 years ago, Tatra was talking seriously about building reproductions of their classic models on the order of a few hundred to 1,000 a year. Not sure what happened to that.

phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/17/2018 at 12:26

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Tatra armored autonomous car.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/17/2018 at 14:41

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Whoa, that’s awesome!

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/17/2018 at 16:20

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So do car sketches make up a non trivial part of your income? What all do you do?

phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/17/2018 at 16:29

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Nah, last time I actually did car sketches for my job was in 2009, sadly. But once a car designer, always a car designer. At least in my case. Nowadays I’m pretty much only designing consumer electronics.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/17/2018 at 17:09

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Can you do boats, airplanes, etc? I do “sketches” in pencil, but they're much more like engineering three view drawings than anything presentable.

phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/17/2018 at 17:56

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Sure. Here ’s some of my random sketch stuff... Not really “presentable,” or presentation quality, just sketchbook. I don’t get to draw very much anymore, and I still wish that I got to more often.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/18/2018 at 17:00

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Sigh...Well, follow up questions:

- What classes did you feel advanced your abilities in translating what was in your head onto paper/a 3d model?

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/18/2018 at 17:03

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phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/18/2018 at 17:16

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Well, I went to school for car design (CCS), and ended up mostly designing other stuff. The only real answer is practice. And design school is all practice, and a lot of it. Like my mentor at my first internship always said: “it’s all mileage.”

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/18/2018 at 17:24

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One more:

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/18/2018 at 17:30

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I find that the proportions come out looking “off” when I draw cars. I don’t think I have anything automotive scanned (I’ve just been on a boat kick recently, so that’s why the nautical theme).

The “practice” bit is both encouraging (keep at it) and discouraging (no shortcuts). I went to a school that had a really traditional art program for middle school and high school, and then the last two years of high school I was in an IB art program and had to go ask an artist how to draw human hands and hair. “Practice” was basically his answer.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > Nibby 07/18/2018 at 17:31

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Pirate Zelda? Not sure if turned on...

Nibby > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/18/2018 at 23:00

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phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/19/2018 at 13:14

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Yeah, there are lots of cliches in design, car design in particular. Like “you have to draw 10,000 until you get one right,” and “inspiration is only found at the end of the pencil.” No shortcuts is right. Observation is a practiced skill— drawing anything and everything is good practice, no matter what you want to draw. Practice perspective— cubes, ellipses, pyramids... it sounds basic, but they’re called fundamentals for a reason.

There are tons of tutorials out there-- maybe try taking some of your orthographic view drawings and translating them to 3-point perspective.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/19/2018 at 20:37

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*Googles 3-point perspective*

Ewwww.... That looks hard. Ok, I'll take a stab or twenty at it and report back when I have something recognizable as an attempt.

phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/19/2018 at 21:21

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Don’t worry too much, or try too hard— just try often, fail often, and keep at it! Check out Scott Robertson’s tutorials , he’s done hundreds.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/21/2018 at 11:12

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Dang, he’s good (at explaining).

EDIT: He’s really good.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > phenotyp 07/21/2018 at 11:42

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Ok, I need to stop watching or I’ll never draw anything again.

Another question: any recommendations for converting 2d sketches to 3d models (e.g. in CAD)?

phenotyp > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 07/23/2018 at 10:48

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Pretty much every CAD program will import a 2D sketch onto a plane, which you can sketch over. When you’ve got the elevations done, just import onto side/front/top planes and start building.