I saw this sweet Cougar in an old Hot Rod Magazine from 2011 that featured Mercury race cars in an article right after Ford closed Mercury down. I started this one off as a very rough pencil sketch, and rather than re-lining the drawing with ink, I just went straight off to markers. I used…
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Happy New Year! This is my first sketch of the new year – a 1950 Ford. The 1949-51 Shoebox Ford is one of my favorite designs – it’s very simple and understated, yet shows the start of the space age-inspired design influence of the 1950s. This photo shows the rough sketch in pencil. I like…
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The Pontiac Tempest was unique in that it used a transaxle rather than a traditional transmission directly behind the engine. In 1963, Pontiac produced just six Super Duty Tempest wagons – this one with a 4-speed manual transaxle and a Super Duty 421 V8. This sketch was roughed in pencil, then lined with Micron pen.…
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I brought a red Pilot fine tip gel pen home from work this week to use for some detail work. Here are a couple pieces I sketched out using it. First is this 1967 Mercury Comet Caliente drag car. I used the red to accent the lower headlights, headliner, and a stripe along the side…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted what I’ve been working on, so here are couple chicken scratch drawings. I’ve been working on loosening up my sketches lately and working with just ink pen. Here are a few recents. This is a 1949 Chevy Fleetline fastback gasser. I’ve really been into older hot rods and drag…
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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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Jessie had a girls’ party at the house yesterday, so I went out to Buffalo Wild Wings for a beer and some sketching. Here’s what came out, a gasser Nash called Nashty, as featured in Hot Rod in 2015. It’s entirely done in Bic pen on printer paper with a blue highlighter outline.
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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