Category: Car Art Blog

Waking Vegas Hot Rod

This one was a lot of fun to do. I play drums in a rock band called Waking Vegas – we played for a family festival yesterday in Highland, MI and in preparation I drew what I think would be the perfect band equipment hauler. This is a ’32 Ford sedan delivery gasser with a…
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General Lee Stock Car

For Season 5 of The Dukes of Hazzard, John Schneider and Tom Wopat left the show due to royalty disputes with WB. The explanation for their departure in the show was that they had signed on with the NASCAR circuit to go racing professionally. In the show, Bo and Luke were replaced for their farm…
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Knight in (Nearly) Shining Armor

Here’s a project that pulled me completely out of my comfort zone. I was asked by a friend to create some concept art for a statue of a knight to be created for Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio (my home town). This knight pulls elements from both the classical iron armor appearance and more modern…
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Dart Vader

Yesterday I came across a photo of a Dodge Dart aptly named Dart Vader, built by Alloy Motors for the 2015 Sema show. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to draw it from a photo where the light source (sunset) is behind the car, creating a deep shadow in the front. This is…
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1970 GTO, Take II

I’m torn about the Judge I drew over the weekend, so I made another GTO drawing. I’m still trying to work out the nuances of what I like and don’t like about my drawings. For instance, whether to outline the separations between color shades with ink pen…On this GTO, I mostly left them out and…
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1970 Pontiac GTO Judge

The Judge package was introduced in 1969 and carried on in 1970 and again for a short period in 1971. Pontiac gave the GTO a redesign in 1970, removing the hide-away headlights from the ’69 model year. The ’70 GTO has been featured in several feature films including Two Lane Blacktop and Dazed and Confused.

1970 Dodge Coronet

The 1970 Coronet had a very polarizing effect on people – it had a very “love it or hate it” face. The designers at Chrysler were bold and used scowling eyebrow features in the grille. Unfortunately this face was used for only one year and a brought the Coronet back to a more conservative grille…
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1955 Ford Fairlane

I made this marker sketch for my Mamaw for Christmas. It’s a 1955 Ford Fairlane in waterfall blue – her first car.

VW Type 181 “Thing”

I made this VW Thing for my mom, who drove one just like this high school. Her car was bright orange.

Corvair Collection

This is a collection of four Chevrolet Corvairs for the Baker family for Christmas. These are some of the reference photos I used: