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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I’ve grown into two different sketching styles, and this drawing shows their differences next to each other. First, the car is a 1962 Chevy II 4-door drag car running in Factory Experimental. 2-door cars are more commonly remembered, but in reality, the 4-door cars frequently had stiffer chassis and had greater interior space for installing…
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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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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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