In this tutorial we are going to practice some painting techniques and design a car concept.

For this one I will be using Photoshop CS2 along with my Wacom tablet.

So let’s begin with this.



Start by just selecting a circle using Round Marquee Tool.



Copy the selection into a new layer. Stroke the layer using Stroke in layer styles.



Then copy the stroked layer. Now it is possible to change the wheel base of our vehicle.



I will draw some lines to search forms better; just some mere straight lines.



Now as I’ve noticed the rendering of the wheels is usually done in the end of all the concept design, but I will make it right now.

Select the whole wheel layer not to cross the border while rendering.



For this operation I will use a Soft Brush.



Now make a selection that is about rim size and tap delete, deleting all that says within the selection area.



Looks quite ok.



Do the same with rear end wheel.



I’m also making a rim pattern here.



The rim itself was painted on a new layer so just merge the rim and the tire; real set and front set.



In the eng you should get 2 painting layers instead of 4.



I will also make some more rim details here using small rough brush with Size Jitter set to pen pressure.