Vulgalour Arts - Commissions OPEN and a Vauxhall Tigra Prints and Original

[purplebargeken]

Some brilliant suggestions! I'd love to see the Atom, Smart and MGF.

[vulgalour]

@PBK:  One of the sketches underway is one of those vehicles, but I shan't tell you which one.

 

Mocking up reference from photographs is a stage I don't normally have to do with this sort of work, but needs must when the vehicles don't exist.  Photoshop is great for this, saves me bags of time in getting proportions, designs and scale something like before committing to paper.  Two sketches are now started, I just have to make final decision on what the other two are going to be.  I do plan to make each choice as different as it can be from every other, there's a very wide selection of hearse styles out there.

[vulgalour]

Hearse Selection One is completed and will appear tomorrow (Friday) evening when I do my weekly art update.

 

I've made selections Two and Three which I'm happy with but haven't yet decided what selection Four should be, I may end up doing more than just four hearses, we shall see how much time October gives me.

[Station]

You really should try artists markers, while your artwork is spot on and it's getting better with every one you do, I think the colour just feels washed out because of the medium you use. They're expensive for good ones, but they transform anything from good to amazing.

I get criticised everyday in work and it's what makes me better.

[vulgalour]

The Copic marker purchase begins next week, I've been putting money aside for it.  It costs several hundred quid every time I want to expand my art supplies but considerably less to maintain them.  I'd love to go out and buy the super bumper deluxe art kit of really nice markers and paints and pencils and a decent desk and a room all of my own to work in.  Not quite that successful yet, but I'm getting there, has been a good year so far.

 

The biggest reason for not going the posh marker route beyond the obvious expense is my own confidence.  Working in just ink takes a great deal of confidence in your own ability to understand what the colours and shapes are going to do, something I don't feel I have enough of yet though I'm well within my comfort zone with pencils and watercolour now.

 

Markers do scan amazingly well and really makes the artwork look a lot better.  I'm finding that much of my paint, watercolour and pencil work is getting washed out at the scanning stage and takes a fair bit of adjusting to bring back to looking anything like as vibrant as the original.  Besides which, I'm not a huge fan of saturated colouring and never have been so I've avoided markers for a long time as a result.

[outlaw118]

Dude, that P4 is probably amongst my "Top 5 Fings Wot You've Drorn"

 

The closest I ever got to art was painting ba**ers.....three colours, in diagonal thirds. Purple at front, black in the middle, blue at the back. In Dulux natch.

[vulgalour]

Outlaw:  I enjoyed working on it.  The side of it doesn't look so streaky in person, I'm not sure what that's about with the scanner.

 

Copic markers are £2.80 each and I picked up ten today.  Usually there's around 70 in a set to get the full range of colours I make use of which is about £200, I could buy a car for that!

 

Let's hope it helps improve things, it'll take me a while to get all the ones I need for just the basic set but at least I've replenished my greys and some blues and pinks which I seem to use the most.

[666jjp]

sell a few pics and these could be yours

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Copic-Set-Ciao-Marker-Pack/dp/B000MRR41E?SubscriptionId=AKIAIXMCBZWUOROXOPDQ&tag=xxsa01-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B000MRR41E&ascsubtag=560ea7c6be2d74.50561261

[vulgalour]

That's the set I'd like, cheapest I'd been able to find them was £180 so that's cheaper still.  Reckon I know what I'll be asking the fat man in the red suit for this year.

[vulgalour]

It is the first Friday of October, and here for your viewing entertainment is a hearse that never was, completed in watercolour and a teensy bit of ink.

 

Original is available to purchase for £40 inc. P&P worldwide.

 

Vauxhall Viva (how ironic) hearse with a slightly Australian feel to the styling of it which was accidental but welcome.

 

[fordperv]

Looks good vulg, i reckon it could be actually built from a 2 door estate with the b pillars moved forward so it takes 4 door front doors and a bit more length at the rear (oooh errr mrs)

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I was going to post something witty* about dead dwarves or something to imply Viva's are too small to be hearses,but

 

Yours is a lot more attractive than the actual thing, that was apparently built by Dormobile for someone in the Bahamas.

[Ghosty]

That's just a saloon with a box on it. Yours is much better Vulg!

[vulgalour]

The Dormobile one just looks like an estate car with a vinyl roof and posh roof rack.  I like it for being so ugly.  I started out with a two door sports hatch thing that the Viva came as and went from there.  Stretched the wheel base and the rear overhang, raised the roof and made the angle of all the B and C pillars more vertical.  Plus loads of other minor bits of fannying around to make it look something like.

[vulgalour]

This week's hearse target will not be met.  I've got as far as a refined sketch ready for colouring but I don't have the ability to focus on it given the terrible week I've had.  I'll upload this week's when I've finished it and hopefully next week's will be on target for next Friday.

[vulgalour]

 

Ariel Atom hearse.  Side-loader with some sort of hydraulic-electric contraption to get the casket in and out.  Extra canopy on top provides an ideal platform for floral tributes while also ensuring there's no impediment to airflow for the mid-mounted engine (it's still ahead of the rear axle) unlike a conventional glasshouse.

 

One thing I did learn is that I don't want to draw another Ariel Atom, they're ridiculously fiddly things and something I ought to do at twice this size to get everything in.

 

 

[vulgalour]

Did my best to achieve 4 completed hearse paintings in October but it wasn't to be, events conspired roundly against me.  All is not lost.  I did get the other two contenders sketched and eventually I will ink and colour these.  The challenge and the suggestions were a lot of fun and I enjoyed trying to figure out just how to make these work.

 

The third hearse I chose was skattrd's suggestion of a Honda Accord Aerodeck.  Japanese car, traditional Japanese funeral car approach.  I could have gone a far simpler route and been on target, more fool me for getting all fancy with my ideas.

 

 

The fourth chosen was Fordperv's suggestion of a Mk1 Ford Capri hot rod hearse, which will sport at least some purple when I get to colouring it.  It's as glorious an ode to the 1970s custom scene as I could manage.

 

 

 

 

Since I've a house move coming up within the next few days now all new not-paid art stuff is going to have to go on hold, which means Suggestion Monthly is again closed down until I get a chance to get everything organised anew.  Announcements in the future when things are moving again.

[dugong]

HEARSES

[fordperv]

The Capri looks great, I like the idea of tying in the d shape rear window and bringing the roof to a peak to give it the spoilered drag esque look, the little things like the shaved door handle and deeper chin are great touches.

 

I love the creativity in all of them, it certainly is a great talent you have vulg

[vulgalour]

HEARSES

 

FER CEARSES.  TAKES ALL SORTS.  ETC!

[fred]

Did you ever do a  ''Cursed one' Picture ? OKK 160W  one that is

[vulgalour]

I did not.  I have considered doing a picture of all three of the Princesses I've had in one place.  You never know, one day I might even do it.

[fred]

I did not.  I have considered doing a picture of all three of the Princesses I've had in one place.  You never know, one day I might even do it.

Well happily the Cursed one has I think met its partner , He is enraptured by it - shod it with new tyres a day or so ago, rewired the battery switch and put new alternator in - Going to look a stunner the way he is going

[dugong]

FER CEARSES.  TAKES ALL SORTS.  ETC!

ALL UR HEARSE DRAWINGS IN ONE PLACE

 

STIFF PRICES? COME SEE VULG.

[vulgalour]

THERE DEAD GUD LIEK

[vulgalour]

I have so much work on since moving into the new house I've had to stop accepting new commission work!  It's nice.  Here's a massive A2 piece I'm working on for a friend of his MG racing exploits.

 

 

I doubt I'll do A2 again, at least until I have a better work set up, it's a right nuisance to work on and taking me ages.

[brownnova]

Just a free bump for this thread so mini mort can see it!

[vulgalour]

2015 is over and 2016 is upon us so I thought I'd look back over the past year and pick out a few pictures from the last twelve months and have a bit of natter about them.  Later this month I'll update my prices and options with what I've learned over the course of 2015, especially since larger pictures will now be available as demand has increased for them.  Prices will, unfortunately, be going up out of necessity, not something I like doing but hey, I've got to make a living somehow.

 

So the art then.  2015 is definitely the year that automotive commissions started featuring seriously in my portfolio.  In 2014 there was interest but I still thought it might just be a sideline, now it's getting on for a third of my commissioned work and increasing month on month which is a trend I'm entirely happy with.  The first one I have in my 2015 folder is the Riley 4/72 which was also my first foray in marker work.  I've learned a lot since this picture of how to do things better and it's an important piece that I learned from and gained confidence from.  Not my best work, but far from being my worst.

 

Throughout 2015 I played about with various ideas, some worked better than others.  This Leyland National painting remains a favourite of mine and demonstrated to myself at least that I could turn an idea into a fairly accurate representation on the page.  It wasn't too far removed from what I had in mind in the end and was well received.

 

I learned the term 'negative space' from the results of this Metro picture.  Most of the response I've had to this one is positive but that people wished it was a different car.  Seems a lot of people have very bad memories of Metros, particularly of their propensity to rot.  That said, the overall effect is so effective for most that they're willing to overlook the car portrayed, even if it's not quite willing enough to put their hand in their pocket.  I don't mind too much, I like having this one on my wall.

 

Another marker experiment was our own Dollywobbler's Elly.  This was also an opportunity to prove to myself I could work in very small scale and still produce an effective picture.  A firm favourite of mine from 2015 this one.

 

I was delighted with this Morris Minor picture and astonished when someone in America snapped the original up almost as soon as I put it up for sale!  This gave me a massive morale boost, for an artist to be able to sell work they've done purely for their own enjoyment is a Big Deal.

 

Those five are my pick of the year because of what they taught me and what they gave back.  I've had some amazing auto-art customers this year who have been incredibly supportive and really encouraged me to push myself to do better with each commission.  The forums I've posted on have been very supportive too and even welcoming of my often obscure subject choices.  I'm looking forward to seeing what 2016 puts my way and what new people I get to meet in the course of my job.  Onwards and upwards, I hope!

 

[Cheggers]

Loving the negative space Metro

[M'coli]

Ditto, it's great!

 

The "Roobarb and Custard technology" marker 2cv is great too.