C-art

[MiniMort]

Hi, since I cannot drive yet I tend to draw some classics and I thought if anyone else did the same you could display it here. And now it's time for the Autoshite gallery:

[UltraWomble]

 

This is our C8 with my wife driving and we are going to the beach, I really love our car so have added some love hearts to signify this and some butterflies as they remind me of summer.

[brownnova]

Mr Vulgalor is our resident artist, check out the :Vulgalor of arts' thread for some pics...

 

UltraWomble... Gr9 pic, well done...

[MiniMort]

Mr Vulgalor is our resident artist, check out the :Vulgalor of arts' thread for some pics...

UltraWomble... Gr9 pic, well done...

Why, thank you for informing me!

[Tamworthbay]

 

This is our C8 with my wife driving and we are going to the beach, I really love our car so have added some love hearts to signify this and some butterflies as they remind me of summer.

so if it's your wife driving, is that you in the back?

[UltraWomble]

so if it's your wife driving, is that you in the back?

Yes, on my days off I like to wear a few items of womens clothing and wigs its just relaxing you know - nothing dirty.

[Cavcraft]

Mini-Mort, even though your name sounds like a small shop in Newcastle, that's a great drawing.

[vulgalour]

Hello!  Always good to see more arty people about the place.  You've done a pretty good green Moggy there, here's one I did earlier.

 

 

Since I do this for a living I have a separate thread as mentioned by brownnova, you can find it here: http://autoshite.com/topic/15640-vulgalour-arts-of-2014-1001-panhard/

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I feel that an idea as to minimorts age might be useful when putting the Moggy minor artwork into context. How old are you MM? Not that age is any barrier to creating or appreciating art – Turner was having works accepted by the Royal Academy when he was only 15.

[fordperv]

Mr boll, I'm sure in another thread minimort says 14

 

The moggy looks a decent picture young un

[tooSavvy]

.... I might only pass for 14 when I post......

 

 

but, hey.....

 

 

TS

[MiniMort]

I feel that an idea as to minimorts age might be useful when putting the Moggy minor artwork into context. How old are you MM? Not that age is any barrier to creating or appreciating art – Turner was having works accepted by the Royal Academy when he was only 15.

It's true! I'm 14 so only a year to go!!!

[vulgalour]

Just remember, being successful in art is 10% skill and 90% pure dumb luck.

[PiperCub]

I was thrown out of art at school - fair one really, I have precisely zero artistic talent, the only thing I can draw successfully is the curtains. 

[Split_Pin]

My mum was educated at Glasgow School of Art and my wife is also very creative so its even more frustrating that I am just a cack-handed fool.

 

These are all cracking pieces, the Minor seems to lend itself well to being drawn or painted. Must be a great winter hobby when its too horrible out to work on the car!

[billyboy406v6]

so if it's your wife driving, is that you in the back?

You cant see him cos he is busy doing the drawing !!

[captain_70s]

Funnily enough I was sorting out the spare room upstairs (reorganising piles of junk into slightly neater piles of junk) and found some old sketches I would have done when I was about 14/15, about a decade ago.

 

 

I used to have tons of side profile pictures like the last Morris Traveller (looks more like a 1930s Ford woodie!). I certainly had one for every Moggy bodystyle, 2 door, 4 door, Traveller, van, pickup, etc as I was a tad Moggy mad at the time. I also had a really nice drawing of the Wallace and Gromit A30 van in similar style but have lost it. I also remember drawing a Rover P6 and a Granada Mk1 while on holiday at my parent's caravan which I copied from pictures in a Practical Classics article!

 

Some time circa 2010 I bought a graphics tablet and started producing some fairly dire crap on that, such as this:

 

 

This is about the time I got in to 1970s stuff and in particular started fancying a Dolomite.

 

Once I left college I pretty much stopped drawing, it takes me ages (a good 4+ hours) to draw anything decent and my low motivation and short attention span means it has to be done in one sitting or I'll never finish it (I hate nearly everything I draw as soon as it's finished, sometimes sooner. I'll go grab a cup of tea and when I sit back down I'll look at the last 3 hour's worth of work think "nope, I hate this" and delete the whole lot). I just don't have the time now-a-days!

 

I have done a few Dolomite 1300 related bits since I bought it, including this which was my profile picture on various websites for a while:

 

 

Also this series of small and cutesy pictures which I used as signatures on a few forums which showed the state of my car (as piloted by a random anime girl because I couldn't draw myself in a style that matched the squashed cartoony car)  at any given time...

 

 

The last shite related thing I drew was this, which I used as a Facebook profile picture for a while:

 

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

Since Uni I have found literally zero practical saleable application for being able to draw.

 

It's the most frustrating thing in my life. I still find myself getting my propelling pencil out occasionally to keep my hand in.

 

 

I only do made up stuff, though, mainly because you can't get it wrong.

[tooSavvy]

Captain_70's...

 

I saw 'Sid the sexist' get caught out, by his mates, havin a 5knuckle shuffle and he didn't look 1/2 as obvious as your 'guy with Dolly'... just sayyinn, like

 

 

TS

[rml2345]

There's a great deal of drawing talent on Autoshite. I love the cutsey Dolomite girl pics though, those are fab.

[captain_70s]

Captain_70's...

 

I saw 'Sid the sexist' get caught out, by his mates, havin a 5knuckle shuffle and he didn't look 1/2 as obvious as your 'guy with Dolly'... just sayyinn, like

 

 

TS

 

Funny thing is, the original drawing didn't have the hand in pocket but hands are hard to draw, so I cheated! Quite a lot of my older pictures feature conveniently concealed hands...

[vulgalour]

It's great to see a progression of someone else's work like that, goes to show that even if you just do it in hobby time you can improve vastly by sticking at it.

 

@RoadworkUK:  Sucks doesn't it?  It's almost impossible to make a living from this stuff, even when you're really skilled.  For me it was a case of finding a niche market and sticking to it like a terrier to a trouser leg.  Self-promotion is the toughest bit of the job, made easier with the myriad websites out there now.  The car art market is particularly tough too, highly competitive and with customers on the whole wanting to pay much less than you'd like to receive.

[brownnova]

When I were a little'un I (who has no artistic talent whatsoever) drew a whole range of cars for a car company that I made up in my head. Everything from superminis to supercars, via a mini MPV (before Renault introduced the Scenic) and the great idea of a sports MPV.

 

Sadly I lost all my great* car designs.

 

My proudest art achievement in an art lesson was the time my teachers set is the task of designing a safety poster. So mine was a don't drink and drive. I drew a perfect recreation of my art teachers yellow Nissan Micra plowing into the back of an HGV. She was unimpressed....

 

Although she was complimentary about the drawings skill fur once!

[pompei]

Hey Captain  -  I love those tablet creations  -  any more?

[andrew e]

Roadwork, I think you under sell yourself sir - some classical training in there surely?