vintage racing cars

 pencil sketch and digital colour

Cafe racers

Digital sketch

Vintage motoring doodle

Small pencil sketch on detail paper with digital colouring using Affinity Photo

Drawing vintage cars

 Drawing in pencil and digital colouring using Affinity Photo. These are small drawings 20 x 20cm

Number 51

original sketch

A pencil sketch 17 x 19 cm on lightweight tracing scanned and coloured using Affinity Photo. Imagined car of no particular make.

The Riding Mechanics

original sketch 14 x 19 cm

Vintage racing cars from the twenties, when they still had riding mechanics. Pencil sketch on lightweight tracing, scanned and coloured using Affinity Photo.

Racing car sketch

Pencil sketch with digital colouring using Affinity Photo

original sketch 8 x 8 cm

A sketch from the imagination, no particular make.

Hysterical racing

Watched the Goodwood Revival meeting last weekend via the Classic & Sports Car live stream and saw some fantastic racing. The pre-war racing car race was the inspiration for this drawing. Pencil on lightweight tracing 30x20cm with digital colouring.

Below is the pencil drawing before editing.

Vintage racing car and plane

 This drawing started out with the pencil sketch below (10x12cm) on lightwieght tracing paper, using Affinity Photo to correct the perspective and add colour.   

Vintage car

Pencil sketch 20x10cm with digital colouring using Affinity Photo. The car is no particular make (Lagonda-ish) and the scene is kind of Mille Miglia.

original sketch, pencil on lightweight tracing

Shelsley Walsh

Pencil with ink wash on cartridge paper with digital colouring 30 x 40cm in Affinity Photo. Shelsley Walsh (near Worcester) is a terrific venue with a very friendly atmosphere.

Below is the b/w scan of the original drawing and the rough setup sketch.

Car sketches

Doodling cars using Affinity Photo and a Wacom tablet on the new Mac.

1938 Bira

1938 Bira and Villoresi (ERA & Maserati). Digital sketch

1921 French Grand Prix

 
DePalma (Ballot) leads race winner Murphy (Duesenberg) with Seagrave (Talbot) behind. I'm not sure whether Seagrave was ever this close to the leaders.
Pencil drawing with digital colouring.

Grand Prix

Digital sketch

Trials

Vintage racing

Pencil sketch 15 x 20cm on cartridge paper with digital colouring. No particular make of cars.

1939 German GP

I'm imagining the ear splitting roar of the MB W154 2-stage supercharged V12 through the forest. Pen, pencil, wash and pastel drawing from the sketchbook 21x26cm

This is a link to the sound of a  W154 start up

Vintage racing

First drawing for 2015 is a small pencil sketch 8x7cm with some Photoshop colouring. (I think the influence of F Gordon Crosby is showing in this one). Trying to keep cool in the studio as it is 39C outside!

Racing cars

Drawing from my sketchbook. Pencil and watercolour on 150gsm cartridge paper 21x27cm