Late ’30s Olds

This past weekend, Jessie and I visited the R.E. Olds museum in Lansing – I highly recommend it, by the way. One of my favorite cars there was this late 1930’s Oldsmobile Business Coupe.

I thought the subtle silver paint sitting on the bright red wheels with white wall tires really popped – a really striking look.

The last few weeks have had me in a bit of an uninspired art funk. I really haven’t been “feeling it.” This Oldsmobile helped me pull out.

I like the way these classics look on the toned tan paper, so that’s what I picked. Here is the initial pencil sketch and line work done with Micron 005.

Next, I added the Copic gray tones and then went around the profile with a varying pressures of Micron 02. Here’s where it really starts to pop off the page.

Finally, I added the details – the red wheels, and the charcoal white accents – white wall tires, reflections, and outline.