Art & Inspiration ***early FRIDAY ART SHOW***

nobody has started the art show yet????

Here are a few sketches I've done over the past couple weeks during the ride home from school on the bus.

 

Some lines on a VW

 

Devon. Nice stuff...

Here's a few of mine...

 

That Beetle looked awsome...until I saw the wheels!

 

Heres one I have been doing for a mate, not finished and still needs a lot of work around the scoop but, hell I thought why not.


Doc.

 

And this for a snow board,

Doc.

 

Very awesome Burny...I especially like the ones on the tan paper....what kind of paper is that?

 

DITTO! Very cool.
1-shot:Love the monster faces!

Josh

 

Just as well toss a couple more of mine on here...the '57 was my real car...a "concept" illustration...the Ford was done for a friend.

R-

 

Got some new stuff for this week.

I hate that I missed the discussion on digital artwork last week. And thanks to all the guys that agree that it does take talent to do artwork on the computer. I have all the respect in the world for the guys that do the mechanical artwork. I wish my skills were up to par w/ some of the guys on here when it comes to striping, drawing or painting. You guys are amazing. here is a new piece for this week. And thanks to Rich for posting some work I had done for him. here is a clear shot of it also. Glad you liked it!

oh yeah, redraw/trace in Illustratrator is cheating.

 

Some random stuff from the archive......

 

DAMN!
Hidden, as usual, love your stuff.

Empire32, the pinstripes on the bug are killer. And yes, I almost choked when I saw those wheels.

 

Burny, 1-shot slinger. Those sketches are awsome. Thats exactly what I'm talking about. I need to dig the pencils back out and dust them off.

 

Thanks 1 shot...The paper is just cheap pressboard. I had cut a bunch up for mailers for a project and ended up cutting 'em too small, so I have a stack of 'em laying around and figured I use em. The pro use stuff called canson paper...

 

Hidden, I dig yer Illustrator work. Great perpective and really nice and bold. I've done a bit myself, but I gotta admit I draw, scan, trace...

 

Thanks HIDDEN...I'm really diggin the dynamic angles you are portraying in both of the pieces you did. Awesome work as always!...and Burny I'll have to check into that paper and give that style a try!

 

i do scan a lot but what i do is draw over top of the images. w/ the trace tool i spend more time fixing things. i just draw in the vector program and it eliminates 90% of the jaggedness that come along w/ the trace tool. my sketches are pretty rough from time to time so that is the way I have found that works for me. i need to just polish out the sketches. might try that for next week.

 

Thin lines on a clock.

 

40studedude and hidden - I love your art! I feel so inadequate when I try any of this stuff. You guys are great!

 

A couple more things for the show this weekend:

An old Civil Defense helmet.

A miniature surfboard made of urethane foam covered in fibreglass.

A few new front license plates with a 3-D eyeball.

 

Let's try it with pictures this time.

 

great stuff guys. here's a few t-shirt designs i've done recently...

an 8 color for zombie hotrod wear


a 3 color for rod and kulture


and 2 3 color t-shirt designs for oz kustoms

 

threw some lines on man-a-fres coupe monday thought they turned out alright











not bad for my first car?

 

Thanx O & K...keep at your stuff...remember, it took me many, many years to get even half as good as my mentors...

BTW...all my illustrations are done the "old-fashioned way"...pen and ink and a good eye (that's all I've got left!!!).

R-

 

Pardon the wheels, but it's a concept for a client's ride... a take on lowrider meets street custom meets good wheel sponsor.... It's an older piece, but I figured I'd share it anyway.
And Hidden, I agree... trace tool in Illustrator IS cheating. I strated using the pen tool in Illustrator after losing much of my dexterity to a degenerative nerve and muscle disorder... So now it's sketch, scan, pen tool... a bit more involved, but sometimes technology's pretty good!
BTW-- GREAT work as always everyone!

 

flyingpolock - awsome! all i can say.

its great to see that you have overcome something to do the art you do. my hats off to you.

and its not that i dont use the auto trace tool. its just not that easy in most cases. every tool has a use.

 

A drawing I did last weekend.

Josh

 

Humbled by your compliment! I agree, though... there's a time and place for every tool... and that auto-trace monster is certainly a specialty tool...
Thanks again, and keep up your incredible work!!

 

nuthin new in pics this week, how 'bout some old stuff ?....my son's desk

 

...and the hood of a little Mazda shop truck.