Streamline 1R 'Captain' - Race bicycle to victory!
Streamline 1 - Road bicycle for the enthusiastic cyclist!
Streamline 1R Type-TDF - Race bicycle in a team color scheme.
Paths in Illustrator - Concept in Illustrator paths based off a hand sketch. Frame geometry was traced from an existing road bicycle and used as reference.
Import into Photoshop - Using layers to create form. I have 'shade', 'shine', 'highlight', and 'reflection' layers as well as a base shade layers 'dark' and 'light'. I've found that using the filter 'Hard Light' for the 'shade' layers helps bring out a better colored shade, as opposed to a black one that is over color.
Components - Added photo-real components to promote realism. Wheels are rendered with base color, strokes, fills, and some brushing. Shadows are rendered with oval feathered marquees, duplicated, and gaussian blurs applied to the second set.
Closer - Going a little color crazy just to see how the shading/reflections are holding up to different colors. At this point I found the appropriate filter choices for each layer, such as the 'Hard Light' I mentioned before.
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