Category: Car Art Blog

Inktober Final Week

It’s been a long month of sketching and finally it’s over. Here are the final submissions for Inktober 2019: Day 28 – “Ride” “Ride” could really be anything, and I had wanted to draw a fox body for awhile. Here’s a 1988 Mustang GT. Day 29 – “Injured” I actually missed this one and didn’t…
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Inktober Week #4

Just half a week left! Here are this past week’s submissions. Day 21 – “Treasure” The 1968 Camaro from the original 1995 Treasure Hunt is considered the “Holy Grail” of Hot Wheels cars. If you can find one, they usually sell for well over $1,000. Day 22 – “Ghost” The car from “The Wraith” starring…
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Inktober Week #3

Man, making a sketch each day is kicking my butt – finding the time is tough. Here’s this past week’s postings: Day #13 – “Ash” For this one, I thought I’d draw the Oldsmobile that Ash drives in the Evil Dead – this car was director Sam Raimi’s high school car and it shows up…
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Herbie the Love Bug

Today’s Inktober prompt is “Misfit,” which makes me think of a very unconventional race car, Herbie the Love Bug. I chose to make this drawing on Toned Tan paper to get the white reflections and side numbers to pop. I started with just pencil outlines and filled it in with Copic markers. I really like…
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Inktober Week #2

Week #2 was a blast and is now a wrap! Here’s a look at this week’s prompts. Day #7 was “Enchanted,” which made me think of the enchanted Ford Anglia from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This sketch was a bit of a risk because of the perspective – it’s shot from below…
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American Graffiti ’32 Ford

While I’m on a movie car kick, how about the beautiful ’32 Ford Deuce Coupe from American Graffiti… George Lucas helped to return hot rods to the streets and revitalize the culture with the 1973 cult classic. Here’s the start – rough outline and first shades of Copic yellows: Then, filling in some details with…
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Inktober 2019, Week 1

I thought I’d participate in “Inktober” this year, a collective event where artists challenge themselves to draw one picture each day in the month of October, based on a common set of daily one-word prompts (you don’t have to use the prompts if you don’t want to). Each day’s word is arbitrary, but I wanted…
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Take it Away, Ern!

I thought the Knight Bus from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban would be a fun fan art piece to make. Here are the line sketches in pencil: Copic marker ink added in – I didn’t have the right purples so the bus is more of a lilac than deep purple, but on the…
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Darkwing, By Special Request…

I was very excited to see that two drawings had sold this week – the Mystery Machine Hot Rod Van and the Tony Stark ’32 Ford. So, by special request, I made this Darkwing Duck ’62 VW Sambabus. Here’s the bus in rough-sketch: I decided to work on the lettering and character next – these…
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1989 Firebird Formula

My friend Joe owns this red 1989 Firebird Formula. The car is an original 305 car with a 5-speed manual transmission and is a lot of fun to drive. This drawing started with a rough pencil sketch, followed by Copic marker fill. I really kind of dig the way the drawing looks before the linework…
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