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MyScoot Graphics page
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I'm gonna start incorporating the MyScoot logo on each
of my graphics as I discovered a lot of my older graphics have been
used widely in other websites. At least I should get credit right?
If you're someone who is looking for a personalized Graphic for a
shop, club or just for a unique T-shirt design give me a shout at the
e-mail address below and we can talk about what you want. A lot of my
graphics end up on my CafePress webshop planted on shirts,
handbags, mousepads and coffe cups (to name a few). The links
right above.
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I like to modify pictures of my
scooters in a graphics program (Corel 8) and you'll see
them spread throughout the website . The photos I like best are
those taken on cloudy days just after a rainfall. The colours are
vibrant, there are no shadows and the details are sharply defined.
The reason I bought the old version of
corel 8 was that it came with a 3d graphics program. I assumed I'd
just have to do a bit of work to get drawings of 3 dimensional
scooters. I figured it I could use it to help with projects of
custom scooters and reproductions of scooters I drive. The
reality is that it was difficult (ie impossible for me) to do all
the math involved so I just ended up using the basic shapes (cube,
triangle, cylinder, sphere ) to construct my 3d world. Not quite as
realistic as I'd first hoped but more a cartoony type of image. 
Whenever
I get a new project scooter I wonder .. Hmmm what would it look like
with....? As long as body panels are being repaired and repainted, I
always think of nice custom touches and use my graphics program to give
me an idea of what it would look like. This graphic is of a Honda Helix
with front air dam,extended trunk, shortened windshield and raised seat. I like it. 
On all the 3d renderings I started off with
building engines, headsets and front forks in detail and kept
adding pieces to construct my virtual scooter. Hidden beneath
body panels in the graphics above are an infinite amount of rectangles,
circles, cylinders and cones stretched and pieced together as if
I was building a scooter from scratch. This pic shows a bit more
of the detail hidden in a lot of the 3d scooters with bodywork.
And sometimes I just like to superimpose the graphics
on an actual picture like this one. It's a close-up of the front cowl
of my Elite 150 on a rainy day.
The MyScoot logo shown is actually carved from a hunk of aluminum.
My lambretta Li150 had holes in the cowling where the
nameplates were mounted. Replacement nameplates were expensive and so I
drew something over the mounting holes that covered them. I
traced the pattern and transferred it to some aluminum sheet and
proceeded to carve it out. Liked it so much I decided to keep it
and adopt it as the website name
