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.

Sounds of the city - second entry

I looked back at the original rough sketch for the Scooters illustration and kind of liked the loose and dynamic style- so I re-worked it and entered it also in the AOI Prize for illustration 2017 Sounds of the city competition.

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.

Entry- The Prize for Illustration 2017 Sounds of the City

I have just submitted my entry for The Prize for Illustration 2017 competition presented by The Association of Illustrators (AOI) and London Transport Museum. The theme this year is "Sounds of the City"

A swarm of motor scooters roaring through a railway arch, a tube train rumbling overhead and pigeons flapping for their lives, says "London" to me.

The drawing is an A2 watercolour and ink on Saunders 300gsm hot pressed paper. Finishing touches were digital using Affinity Photo 

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

Sounds of the city

I have started working on an entry to the AOI (Association of Illustrators) Prize for illustration 2017 and came up with this sketch. The theme is "Sounds of the City - an illustrated interpretation of sound". The competition is run in conjunction with the London Transport Museum.

A swarm of motor scooters roaring through a railway arch, a tube train rumbling overhead and pigeons flapping for their lives, says "London" to me.

This is a tiny pencil sketch 6 x 3.5cm with colour added in Affinity Photo.

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.

Street scenes

An imagined street scene with sports car. Having lived in London for a number of years the 4-6 storey streetscape is my favorite urban design scale (when combined with public squares and allotments). Ink on cartridge paper 25x28cm.

 

 A city street scene, possibly Melbourne. Ink and gouache 15x29cm

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