Neptune

Originally I think I was influenced a lot by the Jaguar MkII and my intent was a luxury touring sedan with a long hood and short, curvy cabin.  Later on I realized that such a car would be pretty cramped in back for a luxury car and went the opposite direction with the hideous flat-roofed car of 2002.  For my redesign I retained only the rear suicide-style doors but this time made them smaller, realizing to achieve the intended shape and proportions the car would have to be a "two door" (or two and two halves door) grand tourer with occasional backseats.  I retained the large trunk because it was crucial to the shape I was pursing and because this is a car for long travel cross-country over big smooth highways.

Toro GT

So I drew the Toro in school off-hand and because I love the Jaguar E-Type, it ended up looking sort of like an E-Type.  Later I chose to redraw it and I guess I had other ideas of what a perfect sports coupe should be and drew something that I now think is totally ugly.
I just sat down today and did a redraw while using a model of the Jaguar and my old drawings to get the basic shape and proportions down and then put them away and finished the car.  I am really happy with it and I think I bested my original intent and even bested the intent I went in with today.

Adder GT

I thought "Narcon" was a type of fish; google brought up all sorts of odd stuff... who knows what I was thinking so many years ago.  I guess I didn't like the name then either because by 2002 the name had changed to Adder (a type of snake).
I drew the Narcon by overlapping different shapes and it ended up being a somewhat pleasing compact car.  When I learned to draw better I decided it had the potential to be evolved into one of those cool little European 2+2s with the totally useless backseats.  I considered a 2015 redesign on this briefly before deciding I am still pretty happy with the 2002 rendition of this car.  I think it would probably be pretty fun to drive with a low center of gravity and the wheels pushed out to the corners.  The backseats would be excellent for luggage on a short trip because the trunk would probably be extremely tiny.

Ispirazione

In 2002 I had read a book about old concept cars and was intrigued by the ones from the1980s since they seemed to be what folks then thought we might be driving at the turn of the millennium.  I decided to try to emulate one of these cars so I could maybe learn something from drawing it.  I don't think many design elements from this experiment carried over to later drawings.  It's kind of a boring shape and it looks familiar because it really is a pastiche of Bertone and Pininfarina.  I imagine it with gull-wing doors.

Sicily

Less of a redesign and more of a redraw the Sicily, first drawn when I was 12 or 13 (and during class too, since it was done on lined binder paper), is one of my more flamboyant and ridiculous cars.  I like the presence it has, even if it was sloppily drawn because I used to work exclusively in pen.

The Sicily was inspired mostly by American cars of the 1950s.  I tried in the drawing I did today to maintain as much of the original car while fitting it to better proportions and I think some things were gained while others were lost.  I made it a side-exhaust car and I'm not sure why I didn't when I was a kid, seems obvious!  Maybe I wasn't aware or hadn't noticed such things yet.  I left a faint line over the top of the car so the viewer could envision it with or without a roof fairly easily.

Petersen Custom: Debut Car and Welcome!

Welcome to my blog!  This is intended largely for me to keep track of the cars I drew as a kid, but also as a vehicle through which I can share my car designing endeavors with others.

This car was simply titled "Petersen Custom" and was drawn in 2002, evidently after I had become disenchanted with MMC.  The year puts me close to 14 at the time of drawing.  The Petersen Custom exhibits many design features which were consistent throughout my portfolio: slightly extruded full-length sweeping fenders, narrow but long taillights and turn signal lights, cab-back styling...  It is because it is so representative that I chose it as the opening piece for this blog.
I intend to post all my cars, and the ones which I am unhappy with I want to redraw now as an adult, and all versions of the car will be posted.  Hopefully you will see progress!
The Petersen Custom is one of a few cars which still satisfies me today so I will not redraw it.  I did include two extra photos so I could share with you a little of the uploading process.
I hope you enjoy this blog!  I have a lot of interesting and some fairly embarrassing things to show off here.

This is what the cars look like when scanned with my current scanner, which is pretty imperfect.  In the very top photo I took the time to painstakingly use the brush feature in paint.net to make some of the lines more solid.  I could just as easily touch up the original drawing, but I would rather leave it in its 2002 state. 

This is gaudy as can be, but a representation of what becomes possible with the paintbrush feature.  Depending on my mood I might choose to publish altered versions of some of my older designs.  I can even use a white paintbrush to remove lines and redraw them, as I did to lower the car by extending the rocker panels here.  For the record I do not like the spoilers and such on this car; I just did it to amuse myself.