Artwork - 7/7 Metro & Fiesta

[vulgalour]

I'm going to be brave and post my artwork in here. Artwork is what I do for a living, it's not a very good living, but it's what I do and it beats a lot of the other jobs I've done over the years. I am not a photo-realist, if anything I'm more of an illustration/comic book sort of artist when it comes to style. As with most art, you'll either like what I create or you won't. While I do try and focus on getting the details right I'm more concerned with the character of a car, that certain something that makes a car what it is to the owner. For the enthusiast, a car can be as individual as a person and that's what I try to reflect. Sometimes I even manage it.

I do take commissions/specific orders, but I shan't advertise beyond that unless I'm told it's okay to do so. For now, I'm just happy to share my work with people that might appreciate it since some of what I produce is purely for my own enjoyment.

Zaz Zaporozhets abstract piece. I hope to do some more of these, I've just been a bit short on ideas that I like.


SAAB 900 T16 commissioned as a gift. My first and hopefully not my last attempt at a SAAB, I plan to have make an image of a 96 at some point.


Poor old Pineapple Fine Furniture is long gone, they even had to leave their old work bus behind.


The first image for 2014 is this Wolseley Six. It is more purple than magenta in person, but the purple I used is notorious for not scanning true.

[vulgalour]

New piece fresh off the scanner. Panhard PL17. Original artwork is available to purchase.


Found a new technique that allows me to get proportions somewhat more accurate. I'd love to know what people think of my work and what sort of cars they'd like to see me tackle next.

[JPB]

Good stuff, very minor technical points: The E6 engined (possibly all, I don't remember) ADO17s had five stud hubs and the Panhard had three. This takes nothing from the pleasure involved in looking at the sketches but there's bound to be someone - probably an owner of one or the other - who rarely makes their number twos and as such sees these things as a major issue.

Lots to choose between:

The only Panhard of the appropriate type in the whole of cyberspace that's shewn with no nave plates so we can count these studs:

[vulgalour]

Here's the reference photograph I worked from for the Panhard.


Looks like 5 studs to me. You're correct on the Landcrab though, I only realised I'd drawn the wrong wheels after I'd inked it and I'm not really sure why I put it on 4 studs as the picture you linked is one of the pictures I used for reference! Mistakes let you know it's not just Photoshop filters

[tractorman]

To be honest, when I zoomed in on John's picture, I'd have sworn it showed five "wheel nuts"! It may just be a wheel trim and the actual car has three (like many French cars of that era).

[JPB]

Hmm, the studs on the Panhard might just be fake ones that are there for show, and part of the nave plates like those plastic full size trims that were popular in Halfords during the 1990s. But the only Panhard I have seen recently with no plates fitted is Andy Saunders' much modified one (it's pale blue and the internet appears to be without images of that car too) which uses four stud hubs and altogether fatter wheels & tyres. I'd got it into my mind that they had three studs but if someone knows for certain and/or has a piccie of a wheel without the nave plate attached.....

...Or one with, which shows that the plate is attached to the hub and not to the wheel, making this one a hub cap and not a nave plate at all but this is from an earlier car which does indeed have five studs, however they're arranged in a much wider PCD than the (cosmetic?) ones on your photo car.




So I'm probably wrong, except about Andy Saunders' example, but should certainly be getting out more.

But more importantly; do you have any sketches of your Wedge-shaped BL products?

[vulgalour]

There's going to be lots more in the coming months. Presently, I'm colouring a yellow Viva, yellow because when I was growing up ALL Vivas were yellow for some reason, except for where they were brown with rust and grey with primer.

[vulgalour]

Here's that Vauxhall Viva I promised.

[rich.]

thats the best one yet!

[JPB]

thats the best one yet!

It looks most like its subject, IMHO, but I like the Panhard best because it was an ambitious choice and captures the essence (pun intended ) of a rare car.
They're all good, again IMHO, and any comments that sound a little less than constructive are borne of envy and the sure & certain knowledge that my drawings of cars look like something a four year old would do in MS Paint.

I'd hang any of these on my walls, with the exception of the Wolseley 6, but if it had been an 18/85 I'd have that too.