As someone new to the wrapping industry but coming from a design and printing background, I found this video to be TREMENDOUSLY beneficial. Thank you very much for posting this publicly.
+Matt B I appreciate your feedback. I'm working on an update to this that also focuses on the cut lines to keep with the body shape that the wrap will need to follow.
Hi professor Haworth, I study graphic design and I was given the assignment of creating a van wrap with no instruction whatsoever. So thank you for your amazing tutorial.
Very very helpful. Thank you. One question. So after being done with the artwork file. You have the dimensions. So you make a PDF file of every side I guess. And then with the dimensions and send it to the printer? Are you able to make a video from this file with making it print ready. (with dementions and how to set up) for the guys that will be doing the wrap.
Please can you show how you prepare your designs for printing through the guidelines provided by the printing company you make use for printing. Thanks
That's a really tough one. I used to work with different printers on these. I have been wanting to do a comprehensive video or series for a while with one of the printers. It's hard getting time with them to record the parts that come after my designs. Start to Finish, concept to car, kind of thing.
I understand 100% the point of producing conceptual art, and the many points it serves. I think that its awesome you share what you know. keep it up, and good luck!
Ryan cool video. I have been doing full vehicle wraps for 7 years. I find that artists in this industry commonly have a habit of creating their designs which may look good on a 2d mach up as this one does for a quick example tutorial. Except artists commonly forget to pay mind to how this will be installed passing a potential mess of problems on to the next person. The best artists I have worked with care to learn what happens next after the design, and how they can better ensure the smoothness of processes from the start. I only stress that artists must learn some about installation processes so that things actually go smoothly. One example, this black stripe flowing all around the front and rear bumpers would actually never be printed and produced the way you have designed it. the black would be most likely applied separate, because printing it in a 2d form with that style taper would never just magically applie so symmetrically as it can be designed so on a 2d screen because it just doesn't work like that. Primarily I'm referring to the complex front area on this car. I hope my criticism is only taken constructively, and not condescendingly. Great video!
+Adam Yeah, fortunately/unfortunately I don't own a Ferrari 599. I understand your points about the actual process of wrapping a vehicle. The good news is that I get to re-write my lessons as needed. This was more of a tutorial on how to make the graphic design appear to be wrapped on the vehicle. In the future I want to go beyond this process to make an actual print and wrap it on a car. Your insights are helpful. Thank you for your comment.
I found this amazing artist and how he prepares files is insane well done i think. His design a re super nice. He makes planes for all panel work and such. Really helps if you can look at a car as well. Flat 2d templates say Shit about a car www.andyblackmoredesign.com/portfolio/vector-car-illustration/ This second link is a better look at how he prepares his files. Learned a lot by looking at them couple years back www.andyblackmoredesign.com/process/
Hi , I have domined the sides roof and hood but not the front and rear bumper , no idea how to calculate the both sides of bumpers measures, since in the front and rear bumper isnt the complete measures of the bumpers pieces onece you need to prepare the file to print, so what you are explain in this video is only the prrocces to create a mock up to show to the customer, but not the finaly prepare files to print and install, please could you said us the next step specialy about the bumpers mater I said you? thanks
What if the top-down and front views look great in this orthographic view, but do not actually correspond in 3D perspective? How can you validate that the design actually works in 3D?
How do you set the size of the wraps after you finish the design, i mean how does the printer factory will know the size of the wraps? Thanks and good video though. Cheers
You can see on car his designing on it tells you the measurements it's a lot of drawing like this are to scale I personally at my shop use mr-clipart.com we will also get the car that needs to be wrapped prier to installation and get final measurements , sometime if it's just wording you can also just work off the drawing itself and your measurement , As you can see on his drawing it's a full wrap most wrap vinyls come in 1600mm wide roll for the sides you'll need 2 @4665mm long , bonnet about 2000mm long and about 1500mm long for the boot also about 1000mm for the roof that's how you would work it out
ALways double check all of most important parts and measure the vehicle compared to your template.Lots of times these templates mismatch the real deal. Never and i repeat never think your template is 1:1 tempalet of the real car. Only big car brands have these sometimes in there manuals and even they mismatch. Sometimes they use earlier design and some parts are shaped different in a later process.
As a designer & wrap installer, I think it’s vital for a designer to have knowledge of fitting. What’s created here, from the Birdseye section view would be very tricky in fit/ replicate on the car. Nightmare to line up.
Thanks for your input. I'm revising this area of my illustrator course. I have tried to work with some people to get through the process start to finish in a better way. My intent with this video was to have novice designers put together a "look" of a vehicle wrap. I've got a whole series of videos trying to teach specific concepts around the project ( www.ryandoeseverything.com/tutorials/adobe-illustrator-cc/how-to-design-a-vehicle-wrap-in-adobe-illustrator/). I would love the opportunity to teach the entire process of creating wraps addressing those concerns you (and others) have raised. In my professional experience, I have only done the "look" design as you see and left it up to the wrap companies to "fit" the design to the car...Also, I've never had to wrap a sports car, usually vans, buses, trucks, etc. However, I recently had the experience to design for scale race cars which opened my eyes a little more to the fitting you refer to. Would you be willing to collaborate or share with me (and I'll do my best to share here) for the fitting portion of the upcoming wrap videos?
my students and I have coined 'Control/Command S, Saves the Stress' lol! Save often is sound advice, appreciate the video. Designer and Teacher myself.
I find it easier working making a global mask which sits in a layer on top. That way i don't need to fuzz around with masks for each part. Speeds up design process and also helps later in the process preparing.
Unfortunately, without measuring you would need that information on the blueprint drawing or from the manufacturer. For example, I've found that using the "wheelbase" is a good reference because you can draw to scale a circle for each wheel using the ellipse tool. If the wheel is listed by the manufacturer as being 16 inches, draw a circle that is 16 inches. Then using the same scale, draw a line for the measurement for the wheelbase and place the center of a circle for the wheel size at each end of the line. Then you can scale the blueprint to that size so the wheels match up. That should give you a good scale for the rest of the drawings as long as you keep everything to the same scale. Hopefully, this makes sense.
hello ryan i have the following problem i followed your instruction step by step untill to the point where i have to create the mask with "ctrl+7". outside of the car it work well but inside not. that means the windows are not cutted out so that it stay for exampel blue. could you help me ? :)
+F. S.k. Thanks for your comment. I have struggled with this project a few times myself. This is why I made three different videos on the same topic. There are some inconsistencies with how Illustrator handles the clipping mask. I would like to give clarification. I'll make a note to follow-up on this issue soon.
This can be a common issue for illustrator. It may be an issue with how the vector file is created or the order in which you select the vector elements. I can help you if needed. Let me know a time you're available and I'll set up a video stream.
Nice! I only add 1-2 hours of grafical fee to get this file printable and looking sweet after work is done. Could have saved those monies just asking for the scaled template at the signshop, and talked to the wrapper where not to place the logo for this car! Gl with your "template designs"
+William Melgar Thank you for the comment. No, I have some I am working on, and will share information about each course on my channel when they're ready.
Great video. I learnd alot. Thank you. But the only thing i noticed was the gradients on the front and rear bumpers was going side to side when it should have been up and down 😁..please keep the videos coming. You are helpong alot of people.
+Andrés Berta One place I like to use is www.the-blueprints.com/ They require a membership, but it is free. They also have vector versions that you may purchase. I've usually found high enough quality free blue prints, so I haven't had the need to purchase vector blue prints.
Travis, I have created a page where you can find each of the illustrator files I used as templates in the course I taught that featured this project. Here's the link: www.ryandoeseverything.com/tutorials/adobe-illustrator-cc/how-to-design-a-vehicle-wrap-in-adobe-illustrator/ Let me know if you have any other issues. Thanks!
Kayleigh Martin it varies on the company and the plotter they use. often you'll want to use all vector art, so .ai or .eps file. Some take jpg. Vector formats can be full size, while raster formats are usually scaled, and your sign company can give you the specifics. Others will still charge the time it takes to render the file in whatever proprietary software they use. I'm trying to get a video going with a sign company that does wraps to walk through the whole process.
why don't you cut the vehicle from white box and whole the graphics you can put down to neath layer and you will see design in comfortable vision. make it easy you know
Hey, I'm using Photoshop CS5, and tried to create the clipping mask just as you described, but it's not working. When I put the outline layer above the design layer, the design layer stays while the outline layer is clipped to fit the design. So I tried puting the design layer above the outline layer and it works better to some extent: The clipped design is very very faint, and the colour of the outline still remains. What am I doing wrong?
Forgive me if I can't remember talking about clipping masks in Photoshop in this video about using Illustrator. Photoshop clipping masks are completely different. You should be using a layer mask in Photoshop for the same effect. If you meant to say Illustrator CS5, then the procedure would be to create the outline above the design and create the mask by selecting both the outline and the design, then creating the clipping mask.
Hello Ryan, thanks for the response. I understand the video is about Illustrator (and not Photoshop), but it's the best guide I could've found to begin designing wraps. I tried using the layer mask method you suggested, and it worked! Thank you so much for your recommendation. With regards to my other problem of the faint-ness, it turns out what I did was I grouped/merged the outlines of the 5 views as one layer, but I never set the transparency of each outline to 100% before merging. In other words, the 5 individual outlines has different levels of transparency, and when I merged them into 1 layer, Photoshop set the transparency of the new layer to 100%, even though the transparency was clearly not 100%. This also happened on the design layer, when I grouped/merged different shapes together. Nevertheless, all my issues have been resolved. Thanks for the help, and the video!
I'm a freelance graphic designer and this video has been a lifesaver. Thank you!
As someone new to the wrapping industry but coming from a design and printing background, I found this video to be TREMENDOUSLY beneficial. Thank you very much for posting this publicly.
+Matt B I appreciate your feedback. I'm working on an update to this that also focuses on the cut lines to keep with the body shape that the wrap will need to follow.
+Ryan Haworth Fantastic. By the way, you forgot to adjust your gradient on the bumpers!
Thanks for the video. How about using artwork that uses bitmaps?
Hi professor Haworth, I study graphic design and I was given the assignment of creating a van wrap with no instruction whatsoever. So thank you for your amazing tutorial.
Leticia Nava I'm glad you've enjoyed it. Let me know if you need any help.
Very very helpful. Thank you.
One question. So after being done with the artwork file. You have the dimensions. So you make a PDF file of every side I guess. And then with the dimensions and send it to the printer?
Are you able to make a video from this file with making it print ready. (with dementions and how to set up) for the guys that will be doing the wrap.
What a great video! I wish I could enroll to be a student in your classes!
You save me a lot of time, thank you
Please can you show how you prepare your designs for printing through the guidelines provided by the printing company you make use for printing. Thanks
That's a really tough one. I used to work with different printers on these. I have been wanting to do a comprehensive video or series for a while with one of the printers. It's hard getting time with them to record the parts that come after my designs. Start to Finish, concept to car, kind of thing.
I understand 100% the point of producing conceptual art, and the many points it serves. I think that its awesome you share what you know. keep it up, and good luck!
Ryan cool video. I have been doing full vehicle wraps for 7 years. I find that artists in this industry commonly have a habit of creating their designs which may look good on a 2d mach up as this one does for a quick example tutorial. Except artists commonly forget to pay mind to how this will be installed passing a potential mess of problems on to the next person. The best artists I have worked with care to learn what happens next after the design, and how they can better ensure the smoothness of processes from the start. I only stress that artists must learn some about installation processes so that things actually go smoothly. One example, this black stripe flowing all around the front and rear bumpers would actually never be printed and produced the way you have designed it. the black would be most likely applied separate, because printing it in a 2d form with that style taper would never just magically applie so symmetrically as it can be designed so on a 2d screen because it just doesn't work like that. Primarily I'm referring to the complex front area on this car. I hope my criticism is only taken constructively, and not condescendingly. Great video!
+Adam Yeah, fortunately/unfortunately I don't own a Ferrari 599. I understand your points about the actual process of wrapping a vehicle. The good news is that I get to re-write my lessons as needed. This was more of a tutorial on how to make the graphic design appear to be wrapped on the vehicle. In the future I want to go beyond this process to make an actual print and wrap it on a car. Your insights are helpful. Thank you for your comment.
@@RyanHaworth did you follow up on that yet ?
@@RyanHaworth Have you followed up on it yet?
I found this amazing artist and how he prepares files is insane well done i think. His design a re super nice. He makes planes for all panel work and such. Really helps if you can look at a car as well. Flat 2d templates say Shit about a car
www.andyblackmoredesign.com/portfolio/vector-car-illustration/
This second link is a better look at how he prepares his files. Learned a lot by looking at them couple years back
www.andyblackmoredesign.com/process/
Hi , I have domined the sides roof and hood but not the front and rear bumper , no idea how to calculate the both sides of bumpers measures, since in the front and rear bumper isnt the complete measures of the bumpers pieces onece you need to prepare the file to print, so what you are explain in this video is only the prrocces to create a mock up to show to the customer, but not the finaly prepare files to print and install, please could you said us the next step specialy about the bumpers mater I said you? thanks
Kindly make a video of final steps and design files and deliver to the client.
What if the top-down and front views look great in this orthographic view, but do not actually correspond in 3D perspective? How can you validate that the design actually works in 3D?
How do you set the size of the wraps after you finish the design, i mean how does the printer factory will know the size of the wraps? Thanks and good video though. Cheers
You can see on car his designing on it tells you the measurements it's a lot of drawing like this are to scale I personally at my shop use mr-clipart.com we will also get the car that needs to be wrapped prier to installation and get final measurements , sometime if it's just wording you can also just work off the drawing itself and your measurement , As you can see on his drawing it's a full wrap most wrap vinyls come in 1600mm wide roll for the sides you'll need 2 @4665mm long , bonnet about 2000mm long and about 1500mm long for the boot also about 1000mm for the roof that's how you would work it out
ALways double check all of most important parts and measure the vehicle compared to your template.Lots of times these templates mismatch the real deal. Never and i repeat never think your template is 1:1 tempalet of the real car. Only big car brands have these sometimes in there manuals and even they mismatch. Sometimes they use earlier design and some parts are shaped different in a later process.
Is this the final file i need to provide to the printer / client ??
As a designer & wrap installer, I think it’s vital for a designer to have knowledge of fitting. What’s created here, from the Birdseye section view would be very tricky in fit/ replicate on the car. Nightmare to line up.
Thanks for your input. I'm revising this area of my illustrator course. I have tried to work with some people to get through the process start to finish in a better way. My intent with this video was to have novice designers put together a "look" of a vehicle wrap. I've got a whole series of videos trying to teach specific concepts around the project (
www.ryandoeseverything.com/tutorials/adobe-illustrator-cc/how-to-design-a-vehicle-wrap-in-adobe-illustrator/).
I would love the opportunity to teach the entire process of creating wraps addressing those concerns you (and others) have raised. In my professional experience, I have only done the "look" design as you see and left it up to the wrap companies to "fit" the design to the car...Also, I've never had to wrap a sports car, usually vans, buses, trucks, etc.
However, I recently had the experience to design for scale race cars which opened my eyes a little more to the fitting you refer to.
Would you be willing to collaborate or share with me (and I'll do my best to share here) for the fitting portion of the upcoming wrap videos?
Would you recommend now illustrator or photoshop for vinyl wrapping?
Could you help me design a graphic design/ racing strip for my 2015 dodge durango 5.7 rt Blacktop edition.
my students and I have coined 'Control/Command S, Saves the Stress' lol! Save often is sound advice, appreciate the video. Designer and Teacher myself.
One of the Great wraps s far. Keep creating and uploading.
I find it easier working making a global mask which sits in a layer on top. That way i don't need to fuzz around with masks for each part. Speeds up design process and also helps later in the process preparing.
Me looking for this guys comments on every video.👀
Excellent video ! THANK YOU !
Hi, may I know how do you get the size of the car, each size of it? Those side doors, bumper, and etc
Unfortunately, without measuring you would need that information on the blueprint drawing or from the manufacturer. For example, I've found that using the "wheelbase" is a good reference because you can draw to scale a circle for each wheel using the ellipse tool. If the wheel is listed by the manufacturer as being 16 inches, draw a circle that is 16 inches. Then using the same scale, draw a line for the measurement for the wheelbase and place the center of a circle for the wheel size at each end of the line. Then you can scale the blueprint to that size so the wheels match up. That should give you a good scale for the rest of the drawings as long as you keep everything to the same scale. Hopefully, this makes sense.
THanks for ur Videos!
I'm struggling to learn AI for just 4 classes. will be watching your videos much more to learn!
hello ryan
i have the following problem
i followed your instruction step by step untill to the point where i have to create the mask with "ctrl+7". outside of the car it work well but inside not. that means the windows are not cutted out so that it stay for exampel blue.
could you help me ? :)
+F. S.k. Thanks for your comment. I have struggled with this project a few times myself. This is why I made three different videos on the same topic. There are some inconsistencies with how Illustrator handles the clipping mask. I would like to give clarification. I'll make a note to follow-up on this issue soon.
Could you please give me the size file
Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank You Sir
Help. When I do the Clipping Mask everything except the blueprint gets white. Until that everything is and looks alright.
Can someone please help me?
This can be a common issue for illustrator. It may be an issue with how the vector file is created or the order in which you select the vector elements. I can help you if needed. Let me know a time you're available and I'll set up a video stream.
Thank you so much, very helpful tutorial.
Nice! I only add 1-2 hours of grafical fee to get this file printable and looking sweet after work is done. Could have saved those monies just asking for the scaled template at the signshop, and talked to the wrapper where not to place the logo for this car! Gl with your "template designs"
Thank u so much
This great! Thanks so much! I live on the east coast. Do you have online courses?
+William Melgar Thank you for the comment. No, I have some I am working on, and will share information about each course on my channel when they're ready.
Ok. Great! Looking forward to it! Thanks so much! God bless
Very nice tutorial. 👍🏻
Great video. I learnd alot. Thank you. But the only thing i noticed was the gradients on the front and rear bumpers was going side to side when it should have been up and down 😁..please keep the videos coming. You are helpong alot of people.
Thanks for that catch! I need to follow-up on that issue. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank u so damn much! Did a part of my Corona-Homeofficework with this! Really good video!
How do you deliver the files from this artboard?
Thanks for the question. I'm working on an update to this project that will address the next steps such as printing the designs.
Good videos!
Where I can download free blue prints cars?
+Andrés Berta One place I like to use is www.the-blueprints.com/ They require a membership, but it is free. They also have vector versions that you may purchase. I've usually found high enough quality free blue prints, so I haven't had the need to purchase vector blue prints.
Thank you Ryan! from Argentina.
Great work, thanks for the vid.
thanks for this video!!
watch at x1.5 speed
Interesting.... Apparently, I could speak a little faster and the video would be just fine.
Hello! thus it is possible to send the design to the printer? Thank you
Most companies will have specific guidelines on printing and file preparation. You should ask the printing company directly.
+Ryan Haworth understood thanks
can you say something on those ones you sent to your printing company. Thanks
THanks for ur Videos
hello bro, please publish some new vehicle wrap design....plz plz plz
Cant get the link to work
Travis Stoots I recently made some changes to my website. I'll update as soon as I get back to my office.
Thank you
Hmm... I'm not having any trouble with it. It's a .zip file. I'll see about other options.
Travis, I have created a page where you can find each of the illustrator files I used as templates in the course I taught that featured this project. Here's the link: www.ryandoeseverything.com/tutorials/adobe-illustrator-cc/how-to-design-a-vehicle-wrap-in-adobe-illustrator/
Let me know if you have any other issues. Thanks!
Ryan Haworth thank you I will try that
Set video speed at 1.5. You're welcome.
This is Brilliant! Thank you. :)
Kayleigh Martin you're welcome!
Ah while you're here.... if handing over to a printing company, what file format would you give them? Or is this in another tutorial? :) Also scale?
Kayleigh Martin it varies on the company and the plotter they use. often you'll want to use all vector art, so .ai or .eps file. Some take jpg. Vector formats can be full size, while raster formats are usually scaled, and your sign company can give you the specifics. Others will still charge the time it takes to render the file in whatever proprietary software they use. I'm trying to get a video going with a sign company that does wraps to walk through the whole process.
why don't you cut the vehicle from white box and whole the graphics you can put down to neath layer and you will see design in comfortable vision. make it easy you know
Great tutorial! Thanks for doing this!
Here because of my boredom and idiocrocy for forza four in 2017 lolz
Thanks! Now im going to wrap my car overwatch theme. Going for agent 76 style baby!
soldier 76
Hey, I'm using Photoshop CS5, and tried to create the clipping mask just as you described, but it's not working. When I put the outline layer above the design layer, the design layer stays while the outline layer is clipped to fit the design. So I tried puting the design layer above the outline layer and it works better to some extent: The clipped design is very very faint, and the colour of the outline still remains. What am I doing wrong?
Forgive me if I can't remember talking about clipping masks in Photoshop in this video about using Illustrator. Photoshop clipping masks are completely different. You should be using a layer mask in Photoshop for the same effect. If you meant to say Illustrator CS5, then the procedure would be to create the outline above the design and create the mask by selecting both the outline and the design, then creating the clipping mask.
Hello Ryan, thanks for the response. I understand the video is about Illustrator (and not Photoshop), but it's the best guide I could've found to begin designing wraps.
I tried using the layer mask method you suggested, and it worked! Thank you so much for your recommendation.
With regards to my other problem of the faint-ness, it turns out what I did was I grouped/merged the outlines of the 5 views as one layer, but I never set the transparency of each outline to 100% before merging. In other words, the 5 individual outlines has different levels of transparency, and when I merged them into 1 layer, Photoshop set the transparency of the new layer to 100%, even though the transparency was clearly not 100%. This also happened on the design layer, when I grouped/merged different shapes together.
Nevertheless, all my issues have been resolved. Thanks for the help, and the video!