This one is for the most selfless man I know, my step dad Charlie. Our family is a group of bourbon connoisseurs, so here is a bottle from Michigan’s Journeyman Distillery. I started off roughing in the basic shapes using a straight edge, ellipses and french curves in #2 mechanical pencil. Next, filled in some…
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I love square bodies. Here’s an elevation view of a square body Suburban on really big smoothies. Also, a mohawk. I started off with a simple line sketch in pencil, starting with the wheels. From there, I measured out the distances around the truck and filled in the shades with Copic markers, finishing off the…
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What happened to finned cars? Imagine how great automotive design would be if we reincorporated some character back into our cars. Anyway, here’s one I played around with the other day. The fins are very batman-esque. I added some sky blue into the wheels and windows. I started by roughing out the general shape with…
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Special Delivery! I was very excited to deliver the 1970 Trans Am drawing to Corey this weekend. He was excited, too – we went over the details together – checking out the bricks and stone work on the house and the shadowing on the Firebird. It’s a lot of fun to see someone else have…
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May is my one-year anniversary of making marker sketches – I started in May of 2018 with an old Toyota Corolla and some cheap Artist Loft grays. I had been planning for awhile to do a one-year anniversary comparison of the same car to show off how I’ve improved, change in techniques, how I’ve started…
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I’m very excited to have gotten the opportunity to collaborate on a unique project – creating artwork for a new podcast called STEMS and Leaves. STEMS and Leaves, created by Emme Mattaridi, promotes intersectionality in science, technology, engineering and math through storytelling and conversation. The show focuses on individuals’ experiences and how their identities have…
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This 1970 T/A drawing is a commission piece, drawn in front of the owner’s house. The house is actually my favorite part of the piece – the brick work alone took about two hours but really paid off. The drawing was started with #2 pencil, roughed in: Then the house was filled in with Copic…
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Black is always an adventure – as I’ve said before, black acts like a mirror and simply reflects whatever is nearby. This black 1966 GTO Tri-Power is a commission piece, and turned out pretty well. I started by sketching out the car with mechanical pencil, and slowly filling in the shades with cool grays, going…
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This DMG Mori turn & mill center is for my friend Joe – his shop has two of these machines. This model is a CTX beta 800 TC. This sketch was roughed out with Micron 005 black ink pen and filled in with Copic marker on Canson marker paper. Finishing touches were done with 08…
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Here’s a quick boat sketch I made yesterday for a coworker. This sketch was first roughed out with Natural Gray N0 copic marker. XS Faber Castell pen was used to do the line work, and various Copic blues, grays, and greens were used to finish it out. Interestingly, Bronze BG78 was used for the water,…
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