The art of classic cars

[vulgalour]

Sketch - imagine the VW van with the rest of the details added like wheels and whatnot.

Ink - I haven't got a vehicular example of this

Ink & Colour - Bozo Atlas, Zappo, Metro

Colour only - Sierra, Fiesta, Steel City.  Might be worth noting that Steel City is the only A3 sized piece amongst these.

[Mr Livered]

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£10 sketch

£20 ink

£40 ink and colour

£50 just watercolour, no ink. Takes a bit longer to define edges and whatnot.

 

 

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I'll go for that, I think your work is great. I'll have to think about which car would be best.

[vulgalour]

Well... if anyone does fancy anything best to drop me a message and I'll furnish you with my e-mail address.  Commission process is pretty straightforward and turn around is usually 1-4 weeks depending on the complexity of the piece and how much work I've got on at the time.

[garbaldy]

Stoopid question allert. I take it you only need a photo or two and the above prices are for A4.

What are your animal pics like.

[dollywobbler]

My thoughts would be to cartoonise them a little more. The Atlas van is hilarious. I love that. 

 

Feel free to ignore me though because I paint like a three-year old.

[Station]

You should invest in Photoshop and a graphics tablet and transfer your skills over. There's nothing wrong with it, and saying drawing digitally isn't the same as hand drawing is rubbish. You just get chances to undo your work and even layer it up, which you could never do on paper. The brushes in photoshop are near realistic and it's just a very amazing, relaxing thing to do, you will be generating stuff very quickly. I've been using it for years and years, and have never done a portrait or used it to 'paint' but this was my first attempt which isn't bad:

 

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2876/10052746184_649f9c3dd8_o.jpg

 

I'd love to do some more, but don't have the time and tbh barely use a PC at home, but you should really try it.

[vulgalour]

Garbaldy:  I'll dig some out, it's usually more illustration/cartoon style than realistic stuff but I've got a couple of watercolour items in the files somewhere.

 

DW:  I've had this idea in my head for a cute little Austin A35 I should really put to paper.  Whenever I've done cartoony stuff car-wise I've been told it 'looks wrong' which... I don't understand what they mean by that and an explanation is never really forthcoming.

 

Station:  I've tried digital and it doesn't work for me, I can't get around the fundamental disconnect of the stylus not being on the paper.  I find the whole process very frustrating and it takes me four times as long in digital to do a basic sketch which I'm never happy with, so I stick to what I know.  Not for want of trying, but digital doesn't work for me, which is annoying since you can be considerably more flexible with digital than traditional media.  Also, what you've done there is super, you should certainly find excuse/time to do more.

 

This seems to have become the Vulgalour Art* Thread.  Sorry.

[Station]

Honestly, you need to try again. I used a pricey A3 tablet in work and have a £70 graphics tablet at home and the cheaper one is a million times better. It is tricky to adjust, and you have to treat it differently, but it's easily mastered. You have a great skill and I think you'd love digital if you kept at it.

[vulgalour]

I've been told that before.  What I'd love is a digital tablet and stylus that behaved like a pencil/brush and paper.  Until such a thing is invented and available for £2.49, three buttons and a tube of smarties (opened) I'm going to be sticking to the old fashioned way of doing things I think.

 

I gave digital a two month trial to try and get at least some mastery of it and I found the whole process so arse about face and headache inducing I have no desire to go back into it.

[For Fiats Sake]

I'd like to see your interpretation of a iFat danPa - early shite model proper mk1 or 2.  

 

I may even bung you a tenner for the results

[chaseracer]

Some clever & talented people around here...

[Station]

That's quite nicely set out there Jon, it looks like the contents of my Japanese Delica handbook. 

[vulgalour]

Stoopid question allert. I take it you only need a photo or two and the above prices are for A4.

What are your animal pics like.

 

I've attached what remains one of my favourite animal pictures.  The original is tiny, I think it was A6 as it was done to fit a particular picture frame, and it's entirely watercolour.  Back from when I was naming stuff, I titled this one "The Laughing Zebra".  I actually really like doing this sort of stuff, but there's never been much demand from paid work so I rarely have chance to indulge.  Again, it's from the era of the rubbish scanner so it's a bit over-exposed.

[vulgalour]

I'm diverting quite a way from automotive stuff with this next one but I found it when looking for the zebra picture.  The backbone of my work is furry stuff but there's no point AT ALL linking you to any of that and I shan't even if you ask me, I've had enough abuse over the years to know better than.  Anyway, I'd like to venture more into traditional fantasy, mythology and automotive stuff but my drawing style doesn't always translate so well to be competitive enough.  This flexibility to content does mean I get some interesting commissions and media to work in so if you're not interested in paper based stuff another canvas I like to work on is hide.  I've got a leather jacket I painted myself that I use for grubbing about on cars and whatnot and there's also this drum that I painted.  Some of you will recognise the logo on this commissioned piece, an unusual choice but one that facilitate functionality and decoration.  Completed in acrylic paint, this drum has been regularly used and appears to show no signs of wear.

 

So if you are thinking of commissioning me, and you do like what I do, definitely drop me a line.  Talking about something that might interest you costs nothing and I really would welcome the trade, particularly if it gets me into a new area and gets people that wouldn't normally see my work interested in it.  Right, that's enough of me pimping my work out I think, I'll try and make any further updates in here be of the automotive variety.

[Station]

Er, are you being Bruce from Area 52 now?

 

It's about an epic 200 pages full of weird diagrams drawn in the same way as your seat piccies! I found it in a scrapyard.

[Partridge]

[garbaldy]

/\ nice work.

 

vulgalour pm me details of what to do and I shall try and sort some snaps out. 

[Partridge]

And finally...  You lot inspired this particular piece last April.  Seems fitting that it's the last picture I could find on the PC.  Maestro Clubman D.  Pure, unadulterated misery.

 

I wish I knew what had happened to my digital copy of the Nash Ambassador LeMans and the Morris Ital estate as they were two I was quite pleased with.  So go on then, what should I draw next?

Have a go at a Citroen Xantia estate

[vulgalour]

Have a go at a Citroen Xantia estate 

 

 

 

You're pointy and dated and not as attractive as your siblings the BX and the XM.  You'll never be a classic car.  Also, your wheels look stupid.

[Partridge]

Looks like I'll have to do it then

[pshome]

Draft for the 1974 504 CC broschure cover.

 

 

 

... not my work, go it from a chap who claimed its out of the Peugeot advertising department,

[vulgalour]

Spot the difference?  I've been tinkering away with this between other commission work.  Still a few bits to fix here and there but it's coming along.  The chances of a Pineapple Fine Furniture existing in Cocksheds, Halesowen who also run a battered VW T25 camper (that maybe they bought new in the 80s when the business was doing much better) is slim but I like to imagine it's possible.

[Angrydicky]

Wonderful stuff! I love the Maestro one!

[vulgalour]

I still have the Maestro pic in a frame waiting to be bought... just so you know.

[Mr Livered]

Mr Vulgalor is going to do a picture for me. I am unfeasibly excited!

[vulgalour]

It's true, I am... no pressure :s

[vulgalour]

Something I like to do, if possible, is make little stories up as I go along with a picture.  I blame Bob Ross for this trait with his happy little trees.  So here's Pineapple Bus outside the run down shop it belongs to parked on some decidedly ruined paving slabs.  Next stage will be colouring.  Without colour, the perspective of wonky parking and wonky paving really does look... well.... wonky.

[PhilA]

Have a go at a Citroen Xantia estate

 

 

20131009_141241 by renault9gta, on Flickr

 

Ten minute sketch from that image?

 

--Phil

[vulgalour]

^ That's neat that is.

 

My commission book is pretty much empty at the moment, I've been working hard to clear stuff and worked perhaps a little harder than I should have.  It does mean I can crack on doing something for myself.  Asked Captain Slow to suggest any vehicle from the BMC/BL/AR stable from any era and he suggested something Keef would like.  Where is Keef these days anyway?

 

 

Need to tweak a few lines here and there, add the factory bonnet scoop and Rostyles along with some scenery and it'll be good to go.  Just sort of fell out of the pencil when normally I have to make five or six redraws to get it near to how I want it.  Either practice is improving my ability to draw cars or my superpower is being able to sketch BL tat with minimal effort.

 

Pineapple bus is halfway coloured too, I'll stick that up here when it's finished.

[Mr Livered]

I have received a Vulgalour picture of my missus driving the Saab. He is a talented chap.