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CRWPitman — Saab 99 Turbo

Published: 2012-01-27 21:55:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 3767; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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Description This one has been a long time coming. I had started it a while ago (late July), and then restarted recently it when Saab went bankrupt. I'm a huge Saab fan so them going under saddened me.

The 99 is one of my favourite Saabs, especially the turbo with the butch plastic cladding and the funky rims.

For this one I tried my hardest to get the details down, getting all the screws in there and making sure they aren't all aligned. Went into detail with the headlamps, although they probably don't look like stock units. Did my best to include some of the glass detail and added lightbulbs, but I'm sure the actual ones are much more details. I like how they turned out though - they kind of remind me of the throwback units installed on the Singer Porsches. Other slight editing involved removing the vinyl striping and what I think was a horn hanging below the front bumper.

Might upload another cropped version to show the front end detail eventually. And an animated gif of the process it took to make it, as I saved them in my scrapbook.

About 28.5 hours to completion, according to WIP updates and what I can remember recently.

*EDIT: I should note, no gradient meshes. All regular gradients combined via blending modes and transparencies. No blends either this time, except for the shadow.

Link to gif of WIPs of this drawing: [link]
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Comments: 18

frankmuehlen [2017-11-19 21:06:25 +0000 UTC]

Best Car Ever

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HearseGurl [2014-07-07 05:12:55 +0000 UTC]

I know someone who would die upon seeing this, I am going to link him here.

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exotic-legends [2013-08-20 17:04:51 +0000 UTC]

Very nice work. For me the Porsche Carrera GT is one of the most beautiful cars ever built. This car also inspired me for a painting in Adobe Illustrator (2-D, using no mesh/no grid for gradients) from another interesting angle. See here:  exotic-legends.deviantart.com/…

Also see the detail-links in the attachment of the picture-description.

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JohannFinsPrower [2013-05-10 05:22:25 +0000 UTC]

Nice going... I love this car

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EdwardSpaghetti [2013-01-16 21:31:59 +0000 UTC]

Holy CRAP that's amazing!

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Melainen [2012-05-08 10:44:26 +0000 UTC]

Featured here - [link]

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CRWPitman In reply to Melainen [2012-05-08 15:31:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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LensNation [2012-03-19 15:37:05 +0000 UTC]

My own fault for missing your works. Have been away from DA for 8 months. Brilliant

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CRWPitman In reply to LensNation [2012-03-19 20:08:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Good to see you back. I was gone for a while myself.

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LensNation In reply to CRWPitman [2012-03-20 02:26:08 +0000 UTC]

Well, welcome back to both of us then

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Melainen [2012-01-29 09:51:44 +0000 UTC]

My dream! Good job, man! (=

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KJRents [2012-01-28 17:36:28 +0000 UTC]

very nice work. cool details.

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CRWPitman [2012-01-28 02:50:57 +0000 UTC]

Opps - there may be one other blend in the hood as that highlight was pretty complex. I did that in July so I couldn't remember...

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wannabemustangjockey [2012-01-28 00:37:32 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic work! I'm not even a big Saab fan and I'm happy to fave this.

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fringecomix [2012-01-27 23:44:34 +0000 UTC]

The 99! My family had these when I was growing up. Love.

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JulianSto [2012-01-27 23:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Very well, bravo!!!
Great car, great job.

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Cage-E-Bee [2012-01-27 22:50:37 +0000 UTC]

Wow, very clean, very slick. Awesome job.

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ronthepen [2012-01-27 22:26:20 +0000 UTC]

Craig great job on detail!

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