pckstudio

pckstudio

Location:	Phoenix, AZ, USA
Joined:	09/12/2007

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Some of my newer automotive art and renderings.

May 7, 2013

Art & Photography Art & Photography automotive art

A mild kustom slinks past the candy shop...

Hot rod design rendering for a client's '32 Ford coupe project. Pencil sketch with marker, ink, airbrush and splatter paint techniques.

In an age of re-purposing everything, I thought "why not make it fun"? And viola... a '63 Cadillac Miller-Meteor hearse in full surf wagon livery. The sliding rag top insert lets some sun shine in, and the whole thing is really an "out-of-the-box" idea, if you will.
Pencil drawing scanned, color blocking, fine tuning in Illustrator, texture added, output, and detailing with airbrush, pen and ink.

I had taken a select group of older designs and renderings, and decided to create a story with each over the past year. Rather than just have the drawings serve as eye candy, or a plan for a project, I felt that a number of them would make for some great fine art pieces, and had a story to tell.

This custom Merc is one of my favorites from that series... It's a stand-out to me because from the front view, you may be led to think that it's just a cool car in a dark, dingy setting... but as you more around the car, you see the light on, and the car is now running in the damp, dark night. I saw this as the owner of the car making a call to a lady he's seeing... on the sly.

There's a second part to this, involving the little maiden's husband returning home... but we'll post that soon...

Playing with a friend's Model-A pickup, and drawing some ideas...

A good friend picked-up, well, a pick-up, and the thing had amazing patina... It's one of those solid, survivor antiques that you just fall in love with, and are immediately drawn to.
Suffice to say, as hot rodders, we love this monster because it's all updated with modern suspension, running gear... but just lacks enough finesse to be fun. Wanting a more finished look, my pal asked for a rendering of the truck, to see how some ideas we'd been throwing around would pan out. I worked on custom paint, taking cues from the stock color, and adding an olive tone, and playing with the factory two-tone break to bring the wheel center color into that now-elongated side trim. I stuffed the grille back into the opening, adding some black there, as well, and creating a custom grille insert. A filled rear pan and relocated license tag finish the smoothed backside, and subtle striping and smoothing complete the picture.
Pencil sketch scanned and completed in Illustrator, then printed, and attacked with airbrush, paint, ink and chalk.

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