Robert de Groot

Mazda RX3 redesign idea quick sketch

Robert — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:08:36 +0000

Made a quick sketch of a Mazda RX3 redesign idea.

RC Car Drifting Video + HDR Pictures

Robert — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:46:19 +0000

Took some videos and pictures today. The video is just to test compositions. The last section of the video looks best according to me, but I need to find a way to drift out of the screen quicker I guess. Well..here are the pictures.

And the video with some test compositions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OSjAEjPbQ

BMW again with my new camera (Canon EOS 600D)

Robert — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:04:18 +0000

I took some more HDR pictures of the BMW of my friend. I actually went there to take some test videos, but I also took some pictures. Maybe I will also post the video(s), but I’m not sure yet. It was really just to test.

Here’s an extreme HDR picture and the 3 pictures I used to make it.

Another extreme HDR picture, but this time I made everything black/white except for the car, which I made even brighter red.

For this one I just used one picture.

Update : I decided to include a video also. Make sure you watch it in full HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIPv0QLYnIE

Making tutorials soon

Robert — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:47:02 +0000

Hi all,

it’s a little while ago that I posted anything here, but that will change soon! I am planning on making drawing tutorials in which I actually talk and explain what I do, so people can learn from it. I want to make a tutorial on elipses in perspective, drawing rims (which are ofcourse also elipses), because I find that many people can draw cars but kind of ‘screw up’ the rims, while they are like the easiest part of the whole drawing, or at least they can be.. Then maybe I will make a tutorial on how to draw cars, but I’m not sure if I will do that, since I don’t even know what I do or how the perspective works in my own drawings. I think it’s good for me to find that out first.

So come back soon for my tutorials!

BMW E30 M5 Monster Engine Startup and Revving

Robert — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:40:09 +0000

My friend finally got the engine running. A while ago I posted pics of the engine and exhaust on my blog, which can be found right here :

Photography : BMW E30 + BMW M5 engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd1BCwjzfRM

19-07-2011 Car drawing video(‘s)

Robert — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:21:50 +0000

I have been busy drawing cars lately again. I designed this one in my breaks at work and finally made a final of it at home and I filmed it. I only uploaded the drawing video so far, but the colouring video will be up tomorrow, because I will upload it the coming night (ADSL stops all the internet downloading speed when I upload to youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCnz9GA51U

Huge moth in our garden.

Robert — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:46:58 +0000

Yesterday my family was here and we were sitting in the garden and at once our eye fell on a huge moth on the fence between our and our neighbours garden. I took pictures of it and I didn´t touch it, because I didn´t want to kill him or destroy the wings. But today in the morning I found him laying on the ground! And I noticed he had spiderwebs in his paws. So I picked him up anyway and put him on a rock with the wings fully spread.

Kong Yiu Cheng’s graduation pictures

Robert — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:17:39 +0000

At the 24th of July I went to Kong Yiu’s school to take pictures of his work in a photostudio there. I took some of the pictures and made a mix. I don’t support the usage of leather, so I left those pictures out as much as possible.

You can find more of his work here :

www.mistercheng.com

Panorama : Clouds 180 degrees horizontal, 90 degrees vertical

Robert — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:36:07 +0000

This is what I got when I took a panorama 180 degrees horizontal and 90 degrees verticle from the window. it contains 58 pictures.

Car Drawing, Side View

Robert — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:18:01 +0000

I drew this on chalk paper. I coloured with Copic Markers (on the back of the page) and Prismacolor pencils on the front side of the paper.