Art & Inspiration Friday Day After April Fools Day ART SHOW!

Dutch ... that engraving is KILLER!!

I picked up some gravers at an auction, but all I've manage so far is to scratch up some metal.

 

Man, I really like this, but they don't drive from that side of the car in Idaho

 

I know this is off topic but I spoke with Ryan about it, just not sure where to post it.
We are having an ART CONTEST $500.00 to win.
Here's the link: http://www.mikejanisracing.com/racing.html
Here's a link to the subissions so far: http://mikejanisracing.com/forums/index.php?showforum=7

 

Here are a couple more hand made skratchboard designs I did last week on vacation. They both were done 5"x7". I finished my newest pencil rendering, I will post next week after the client sees it first. Hope you enjoy! Working on some new projects for Torque Fest.

 

Jeff, that garage scene is amazing man. Unbelievable all the detail you crammed in to that, very nice my friend.

 

Great show so far!! You guys make my week, every week!

 

Looks like a great start to a Friday!!
Norwell-you could have your own art show every friday!
lampert-cool chair
bman416-nice cooler
gary c-love me some tiki!
clysdale-wicked helmet
jigger-like the sketches
neodutch-great craftsmanship

I'm sure there will be lots more talented stuff coming the rest of the day!

 

Powell Ripper I did on our living room wall in One Shot.

 

I really dig these, especially the last one

. . . nice work by everyone else too

 

Read the tutorial on Motorburg MillersGarage; We've got that covered...

Stunning piece Jeff Norwell! Thanks for the progress shots.

 

This is amazing! & props to the chick for sitting there for all that punishment. i know first hand, that is a pretty brutal spot to get tattooed

 

Sorry about the name confossion fellers. That's what i get for waiting until
I was deep into twilight sleep when I chimed in.

Gary, Nice truck!

 

C'mon Jigger-
You sure it ain't April Fool's residue ?.. Ya had me goin !..

 

Good looking show this week! Jeff, your garage scene is incredible! How many hours do you have in that!?

Jason (aka Jay-bone) from the Chop Shop gave me a ring a few weeks back asking for some new business cards and I was just ready to place the order when I got the hook. "I want to update the look with the new cards" he said to me. So I got back to work stripping down the old logo to it's bare bones. Knowing that the type was going to remain the same I just wanted to get rid of the extra elements that were confusing the look of it. Bye bye rocket and pinwheel behind it.

The biggest part of the logo I struggled with was the shape that the text sat on. The original design that Jason was using was a knock off of the "Cars" logo from the movie that he and another friend had constructed. It resembled a 50's car badging which was cool, but how does it apply to haircuts?! From that logo I devised one that used the scissors as the V shape in the V8, but he also wanted a barber pole, a rocket, a crown, and a kitchen sink in the design. I talked him out of the kitchen sink after all and the last version of the logo was born in 2006.

So I got it down to basics and managed to fashion the badge shape into a comb which helped me a lot with it visually. I also hate tacking in extra elements for the sake of putting something there. Jason did want the crown in, so it's in the middle of the scissors now. Overall, it cleaned up nicely, like a nice hair cut to a logo revision should.



Speaking of revisions... After the smoke cleared on the Hunnert Heads-Up I found my design on the side of the road with the tires missing. Nah, the Chrome Czars went with someone elses logo, which is fine, but I sure could have used those header flanges for the Gow Cart! But the design lives on. I actually got two different offers for the design after I initially posted it and with a first come, first served attitude, I pasted the design along to John who wants to create stickers and t-shirts from it. Vintage Torque will be dawning this design now. Thanks John!

keven

 

Spoggie, that is AMAZING!

 

Damn! My dream garage in ink!

 

Aww, shucks 66Newport... Thank you!.
Sweet show;
Great tatt Low'n'broke, Jeff Norwell that Garage scenic rocks,
- Cixpack, dig the tone.
Cruisin' Easter.. gonna be cool in a bunny way!

 

Cool imagery Steve, handled with your trademark draftsmanship mastery!

Agreed, thanks! Not sure this Merc is what he had in mind but his song was
what made me think of the Marauder belly scraper.

Thanks mate. Yea, posting lots of older work here and there. These sketches are a couple years old.

Sure glad you weren't sittin' on the job. Cool stool, rad Chad!

Off the hook Jeff. The shield framing works well too.

Thank you.

Thank you very much!

Thanks in advance Todd. (very presumptuous of me, yes?)
(Sorry, I just needed a reason to write the word presumptuous.)

 

Yeah, that's it,... an April fools joke, yeah, that's the ticket.

Only, I was the fool.

 

awesome work

 

Jeff Norwell,
Cars in the shop is one of my scenes, your work this week really captured it! I like the progress shots as well, thanks for including them.

 

GREAT STUFF!! Jeff, that scene RULES!! Chad, LOVE the "Naugh-tee Chair". with a name like that i'm thinking it should be something that hangs from hooks in the ceiling though. LOL

 

Nice work guys.

 

Little somethin' Igor put on the lower-left corner of the decklid on the shoebox. Apologies for the crappy picture... looks amazing in person. IGOR RULES!



-murph

 

Awesome work everyone!

DutchCourage: Love the step by step break down, amazing work!
Norwell: I love the sneak peek to your process as well!
Car-N-Art: Super cool design work! RDFL

I just striped these shoes as a joke for a friend.

 

thanks spoggie!

It's kinda rare for me to have comments about my artwork, on the fas... But that's all right considering the killer stuff we have here... Hard to stand out!

 

WOW !
Amazing work guys and gals.

The garage scene is off the chart !!!!!!

 

David - that is really putting the pressure on the other artists!!!!
Gotta say I am blown away by the detail on that one!

I hope that all the other artists that have received their helmets will start knocking them out - only 2.5 weeks away to get em done and mail em off!

And I was really surprised when the Hunnert Heads Up did not choose Kev's design..............I emailed him BEFORE the competition was even over saying if they dont take that design - I wanna retool it and make it a Vintage Torque design.

He did and this will be the sticker that will be enclosed in the newest Vintage Torque dvd that will be coming out this month.

Looking forward to even more art today!

 

amazing work guys. that garage piece is off the hook!

 

Great stuff guys!

Jeff - Effin amazing! Your garage scenes are my favorite! I saw this on FB and what a bonus the step-by-step here is!! Thanks man! I started messing around with Painter10 on my laptop and I like it. It seems like drawing is a LOT faster than in Photoshop. I'll mess with it some more and post something...

btw, I hope he takes that crankshaft off the engine cover before removing it... but he seems like a pretty "together" guy so I'm sure he will.