The 1962 Thunderbird Tail Light artwork has now been added to my art gallery. Prints are available in 11×14 and 18×24 sizes.

The winner of the free poster giveaway for June 2009 comes from Karachi, Pakistan. The artwork they picked to win is the 1969 Camaro Pace Car.

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I was reading on AutomotiveArtists.com’s forum, a post by Lemorris called “The Get Well Greg Experience“.

The “Get Well Experience” is about Greg Tedder. Greg is a artist who’s work in the automotive industry is legendary. I have always been impressed with all the reflections he puts into his artwork.

As it turns out, Greg has been in the hospital going through some not so fun surgeries. To help cheer Greg up while he goes through his hospital stay, artists have been asked to come up with drawings showing Greg’s car, known as “Frogger”.

The idea is to draw his car in any style you wish and it’s not about who can draw his car the best but about the automotive community coming together to show support for Greg during this time.

I chose to draw Greg and his car “Frogger” in the cartoon monster style.

I first looked at the reference images posted in the forum.

I chose the side view to do and using Photoshop, I shorten the car some and made the back wheels of his car look like they were burning rubber.

After getting the car shaped the way I wanted, I brought the image into illustrator and started drawing it in vector line art.

Once the car was finished I then needed to sketch out Greg as a cartoon monster. I printed the car artwork out on an ink-jet printer and then using a pencil I started sketching.

I looked at the images posted and then found another image of him on a site wearing a white hat. Greg has certain distinguishing features like glasses and a beard that help when drawing in this style. I used a digital camera to get the sketch back into the computer so I could start drawing over it with Illustrator.

Everything came together quickly at this point. I used layers in Illustrator to move certain elements around such as putting his arm is on a different layer so that I could draw the shadow of his arm on top of the car.

At the last minute I decided to add a drop shadow behind the whole design to help give it a “decal” type of look. All-in-all I like how the final art turned out and I hope Greg does too! Get well Greg!!!!

The May contest winner comes from Humble, Tx. They chose to win the “1970 Chevelle SS” artwork.

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This is a sample of the new artwork that I am working on. It is still in the line art stage. I have about half of the line art done. I will post more as it comes together.

This has to be one of the coolest couches I have seen. I came across it today on one of my news feeds. This one of a kind automotive couch is entirely hand made in metal with sunset orange pearl automotive paint and black leather upholstery. It measures 168″ long and 45″ wide.

Artist Fred Bailey created it. Fred does it all; he is an artist, sculptor, welder, fabricator and more.

Currently the Hot Rod Couch is for sale on eBay for around $45,000.

Oh yes, and the lights work too!!!!

The April contest winner comes from New Tazewell, TN. They chose to win the “1932 Ford Victoria” artwork.

I was surprised when I found out that the same person who won this contest also won the January 2009 contest. I don’t think that has ever happen before.

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I have just finished adding the 1949 Cadillac Hood Ornament artwork to my site. In a few earlier posts, I showed you a line work example and then later a sample of the artwork just before sending off for a color proof. The finished artwork comes in a big 20″ x 20″ size.

This is a new color version of the custom TATA Nano I did earlier.

I posted the custom Nano artwork images in my Flickr account and someone commented that they were planning on buying one and was curious to see how the custom black/orange version would look in sunshine yellow instead of the orange. Sunshine yellow is one of the Nano’s factory colors.

In the majority of my artwork I use many different fades, so changing colors is not so easy. But on the Nano artwork I only used two fades to make up the orange, which made changing the colors easier. That being the case, I did one up for them to see.

What do you like best, the sunshine yellow version or the orange version?

The February contest winner comes from Arkadelphia, AR. They chose to win the “1929 Ford Truck” artwork.

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