The wheels aren’t particularly round, the lines aren’t particularly straight, and the coloring is wonky at best. Apparently, the style of my drawing hit a particular snare people enjoyed. The drawing, of which I thought was just a decent scribble, was on top of the subreddit after a couple of hours. I wasn’t prepared for the amount of popularity of the post though. Being a frequent poster on this subreddit (I acknowledge I might even spam my blog there a bit too much, especially while writing the post-test recap and analyses, but people seem to enjoy them nonetheless), I knew that this would be a popular submission. After just a couple of minutes, I already had about five upvotes. The finished design of the Ferrari 641 which I posted to Reddit’s /r/Formula1Īfter a couple of hours, I was satisfied with the final product (as pictured above) as a first forray into using Adobe Illustrator, and I posted it to /r/Formula1. Progress was not helped by my Wacom’s driver utility crashing every 15 or so minutes, prompting me to restart the driver and having to close and open Illustrator every time this happened to regain full functionality. At first, progress was slow, as I had no idea what I was doing.
I cleaned off the gunk, and started scribbling in Illustrator. The pen had all of this sticky gunk on it, which is apparently a much heard design flaw caused by a reaction of the plastic to air humidity. I used my old Wacom Bamboo One which had been lying dormant in my closet for a couple of years, unused. I decided I wanted to draw a Formula 1 car, and chose this picture of the 1990 Ferrari 641 (driven at the time by Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell) as a base image for its elegance and simplicity of design, and got to work. Well, yesterday morning I thought “hell, lets give it a try”, so I installed an older version of Illustrator (CS6) and looked up a video through google on how to draw in this particular program, giving me this tutorial. When I created my template for the 2017 Formula 1 car and uploaded it to reddit’s /r/formula1 subreddit about one and a half months ago, people over there suggested I try my hand at Adobe Illustrator. I woke up yesterday feeling creative, wanting to draw something.
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