Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and in celebration of all the awesome women, I thought I’d sketch this Nash Rambler. Much of the design work of this cool little car is attributed to Helene Rother, the first woman automotive designer. She was a refugee from Nazi-occupied France during WWII, and started her career in America…
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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…
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Beautiful 1969 Chevelle Malibu for my man Aaron, rocking the Cragar SS wheels. Starting off with pencil outline on sketch paper. It took a few tries to get the proportions where I wanted them. First weight of ink – Micron 0.2mm (005). Here’s a scan of the completed line work with a variety of weights.…
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Second sketch of 2020 – a 1956 Chevrolet 210 wagon 4-door with a mild gasser set up. All the chrome trim except the bumpers is gone. Here’s the sketch roughed out in pencil, and then lined with Micron 01 ink pen: I chose to really force the perspective with extra thick lines, so I went…
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This was a fun Christmas project for my friend MaryRose for her boyfriend Sean – a 2003 Dodge Neon and a 2017 Chrysler 200. Both cars were drawn with the same progression – rough outlining in pencil, then tonal value added with Copic grays, and line work done with Micron pen. Posca white was used…
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It’s no question that gassers are my favorite. I just love the attitude. The 1955 is hands down my favorite – it’s iconic, and was featured in Two Lane Blacktop, one of my favorite movies from my childhood. As Iconic as the ’55 is, the years preceding it were pretty classic, too. This one in…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about traditional hot rods lately. One of the coolest is the late pre-war Ford. This 1940 Ford was first sketched out on toned tan paper with pencil, then filled in with copic grays. Charcoal white was used for outlining and the whitewalls. Finally, Micron pen was used for details.
I’ve been working on some rough doodles that I think have turned out pretty cool. Here are a few from the past week. This is an old Kaiser that’s been lifted in the front – kind of a gasser-lowrider hybrid. This is my 1954 Plymouth Belvedere from college. It’s lined in pencil only, no ink.…
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This was my first Inktober, and it was certainly full of ups and downs (mostly ups). I was excited to start as we were just entering October, and I had a lot of fun all month long but it had me pretty worn down by the end. The whole point of Inktober is to challenge…
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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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