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.
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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. |
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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. |