Some cars just give you a tingle when you look at them. The design is just right. For me, one of those cars is the 1953 Mercury Monterey. The rounded boxiness captures the flamboyant height of design of the 1950s, and gazes forward to the kooky appeal of the boxy 1980s. Here is a 1953…
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I liked the way last week’s Packard drawing turned out – that one was biased toward the rear. This week I made another Packard drawing – Another 1950 Packard Super Eight – but biased toward the front. I started with a basic pencil sketch on toned gray paper. This car is nearly 9″ in length.…
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One of the coolest parts about drawing cars is that you can play around and customize your favorite cars on paper without spending a lot. One of my favorite designs is the very Art Deco-styled 1948-1950 Packard Custom Eight. I don’t know why, but this body is rarely hot rodded – ironically, you don’t see…
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This past weekend, I made this 1949 Chevy Drawing, this one being a Styleline DeLuxe model. I’ve made quite a few color-rendered marker-on-white paper sketches lately, so here’s a fresh contrasty drawing on toned gray. I started with a rough pencil sketch on toned gray paper. Next, I retraced with Micron 02, and layered in…
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Before the 1970s, automakers truly embraced design. Increasingly since then, it seems like most cars all look the same: utilitarian and gray, boxes on wheels. A semi-recent stand out is the turn-of-the-century Plymouth Prowler. It’s aggressive, and harkens back to designs of the early 1930s. Designers showcase many cool ideas, but rarely are they made…
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Keeping with the color-rendered side view theme I’ve been using lately, I chose to draw one of my favorite muscle cars representing Buick’s performance era. Here’s a 1970 Buick GSX drawing. I started with a basic sketch in pencil on Canson marker paper, and retraced it with Micron 01 pen. The GSX was a performance…
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This week for Stefan’s Sunday Sketch Challenge, the highlighted car was the Rover P6, a British 4-door offered in the 1960s and 1970s. Here’s my interpretation, with a modified race car Rover P6 drawing. The standard Rover P6 doesn’t look particularly exciting to me, but there are a few people who have tricked out their…
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I’ve been in the mood lately to make clean marker drawings on white paper. Following last week’s Mustang drawing, I decided to make a 1966 Barracuda drawing this week, but with some minor modifications. First, I made a rough pencil sketch and overlaid it with Micron 01 pen. In this picture, you can see the…
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Last week’s 1969 Mustang drawing had me really admiring the beauty of that design – it’s aggressive yet sporty. The lines in the roof, side windows, fenders and grille remind me of angry eyebrows. This week, I decided to make another 1969 Mach 1 drawing, this time in color. I first started with a rough…
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I just finished up three commission pieces over the last month, and they were all extra large drawings – the largest I’ve done so far, and some of my most proud work! I had one 14×18 frame left over and decided it would be fun to use it for a drawing I’ve been thinking about…
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