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[jonnylayze]

Not mine, but my brother's work: www.timlayzell.com

Edited by jonnylayze, 06 November 2010 - 20:09.

[Tony Matthews]

Every time you post new images, fispeed, I find it harder to pick a favourite, but I think the DKW just does it for me!

[fispeed]

Once again dust and light: Bjoern Waldegaard at the Rallye du Maroc 1975



Is it just that I am getting a little bit old or do You agree with me that car racing has lost much of it's visual (and not just that) fascination over the last 30 years.
Today's F1-races and cars on these new clean, virtual-like tracks are more often than not boring me terribly.

[tyrrellp346wheels]

Great artwork on this thread guys

Can anyone recomend a decent brand of colouring pencils please

[werks prototype]

Wilhelm Tell rushing over the Swiss alps in an American LaFrance and the Phantom of the rallye Monte Carlo:

I'll go for this, as my current favourite.

It looks, also a bit like a 3d model to my eyes.

[werks prototype]

Not mine, but my brother's work: www.timlayzell.com

Some brilliant stuff on there.

[tbolt]

My first attempt at posting an image, so hopefully you will be seeing thumbnails for sketches of Bluebird CN7 under construction.
They were used in a publicity leaflet in the early 60's.
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[tbolt]

Well I guess I will have to try again.

[tbolt]

It will have to be full size, any suggestions why the thumbnails did not work?.

[Tony Matthews]

It will have to be full size, any suggestions why the thumbnails did not work?.

Are they yours, tb, I mean - are you the artist? Very nice.

[alansart]

It will have to be full size, any suggestions why the thumbnails did not work?.

I like these. It looks as though they were sketched on site.

The thumbnails didn't work as the links had text missing off the end.

Edited by alansart, 17 November 2010 - 15:31.

[byrkus]

I think it's about time for me to collect enough courage to show some of my work. Which is basically a collection of rather simple pencil drawings on A4 format, but still. Some are good, while some others are rather less good. Let the drawings speak for themselves.

Link to the list

There are about 675 drawing at the moment, and unfortunatelly not all of them are scanned. But most of them are.

And what is the goal? Well, I plan to draw every single European car between 1945 and 1999 (limousine, coupé, cabriolet, roadster - but no caravan/estate/break), which went into serial production (50 cars at least), and according to my calculations there are still some 1200 cars missing. Oh well. Maybe I'll finish them all in about 20 years time...

[tbolt]

I do not know who the artist is, when they were drawn I was just learning finger painting at Infant School. (never progressed much further)

[Tony Matthews]

I like these. It looks as though they were sketched on site.

I agree Alan. I never, or very rarely did any sketching on site, mainly because I enjoyed photography, but one thing I liked was the hanging strip-lights, they gave a real sense of perspective. However, when I was up a ladder trying to get an overall shot of a car they were a real pain, I had all sorts of methods of pulling them out of the way, mostly risky. I was always ready for a 'POP', a shower of glass and a torrent of abuse...

Lovely sketches, I wonder if the artists name will be revealed.

Edited by Tony Matthews, 17 November 2010 - 16:55.

[fester82]

Here are few I did while deployed in Iraq between dust storms. They are just photos of my drawings since I didn't have access to a scanner.

[tyrrellp346wheels]

Love the Buggati drawing

[tbolt]

Like the pit stop, reminds me of Keith woodcock's painting of Jean Alesi.

[fester82]

Here are a few more; a Blower Bentley, Rusty Wallace back in 1988 or so and Mike Conway's Indy last lap.

[joca7483]

Ferrari 126C2
Gilles Villeneuve last car!

[smarjoram]

Blimey - I haven't visited this thread for a bit and I've missed all this lovely work. Excellent pictures everyone. Fispeed I enjoyed your mountain scenery as much as the cars. Byrkus - I think you're going to do yourself an injury. I've just drawn every land speed record car and that was enough. Loved those sketches of the Bluebird - hopefully soon I'll be doing some similar sketches of the Bloodhound being built. Which leads me on to the next bit. The Bloodhound team are having a little art show on the theme of 'Speed'. It opens this Friday and should run for a week I think. Some of the art will be auctioned off to raise money for their education programme. I've got a couple of prints on display - one which I've deone especially for it. The full size show car will be there too. So if anyone is in the Bristol area please pop in and have a look - or if you come on Friday, say hello. (Follow signs for the SS Great Britain and next door to it you'll see a square, red brick building which used to be the Maritime Heritage Museum - it's in there)...

UPDATE...
Just to say if you are planning to visit - I've found out that it won't be open on Saturday 11th as they're having a special do. After that it'll be open until Thursday 16th. Ring the doorbell and ask for Holly.

Edited by smarjoram, 10 December 2010 - 22:07.

[Jones Foyer]

Once again dust and light: Bjoern Waldegaard at the Rallye du Maroc 1975



Is it just that I am getting a little bit old or do You agree with me that car racing has lost much of it's visual (and not just that) fascination over the last 30 years.
Today's F1-races and cars on these new clean, virtual-like tracks are more often than not boring me terribly.

The machinery ripping through pure nature is such a jarring and exciting contrast. That's missing because the natural setting has been pushed back from the track, put behind barricades and billboards and safety runoffs. It's all done for good reason in the name of safety of course, but yes, aesthetically it's not as nice as it used to be.

[Nev]

Had a great time at the Prescott VSCC event. Went for the whole weekend and spent nearly the whole time drawing. I think I'm finally getting to grips with the watercolour washes and the drawings are getting there too - still plenty of room for improvement though. Here's a few I'm quite pleased with. If you like them there are lots more on my flickr page...











Flickr Gallery

Stefan - I just spent a very enjoyable hour or so looking at your work. As a one-time member of the Guild of Motor Artists I can appreciate the work that goes in to creating these sorts of images. Thank you for sharing here.

[smarjoram]

Thanks very much Neville - I'll certainly be following your XJ13 build - one of my favourite cars - I have a little Bob Freeman print of the engine above my desk at home. You mentioned the Guild of Motor Artists. In your experience - is it worthwhile joining groups like this or is it better to just go it alone? I only ask as I had an invite to join something similar recently. I'm not sure it's for me just yet - perhaps if I was a motor artist full time.

[Nev]

Thanks very much Neville - I'll certainly be following your XJ13 build - one of my favourite cars - I have a little Bob Freeman print of the engine above my desk at home. You mentioned the Guild of Motor Artists. In your experience - is it worthwhile joining groups like this or is it better to just go it alone? I only ask as I had an invite to join something similar recently. I'm not sure it's for me just yet - perhaps if I was a motor artist full time.

Hi - I did say "one-time member" - I resigned a few years ago because there was a distinct lack of activity in the Guild with very few organised events. Work commitments also left very little time for painting. However, membership did open a few more doors for me with invitations to exhibitions I may not have been given if I wasn't a member - for example Goodwood Festival of Speed, Alex Reade in Carnaby Street and the opportunity to display a portrait of Senna alongside one of his F1 cars in the Donington Collection.

I haven't made contact with the Guild since then and I don't know how active they are now - I couldn't even find a website but maybe I didn't look hard enough?

[smarjoram]

Thanks for the info - I may give it a go and see what happens. Meanwhile, here's the print I did for the Bloodhound SSC Art show. It features (hopefully) all the official land speed record holding cars. I wanted to highlight how the size and shape have changed over the years and so they are as close to the correct size in relation to each other as I could get them (I used a combination of photos, stats and video clips to try and establish the sizes).

This one's A2 in size and an edition of 1000 (to match the 1000mph the Bloodhound team are aiming for). £10 of every one will got to help fund the Bloodhound Education Programme. Hope you like it...

[tbolt]

This one's A2 in size and an edition of 1000 (to match the 1000mph the Bloodhound team are aiming for). £10 of every one will go to help fund the Bloodhound Education Programme. Hope you like it...

I do, will they be sold through the Bloodhound site ?

[smarjoram]

This one's A2 in size and an edition of 1000 (to match the 1000mph the Bloodhound team are aiming for). £10 of every one will go to help fund the Bloodhound Education Programme. Hope you like it...

I do, will they be sold through the Bloodhound site ?

They will be eventually. In the meantime if you'd like one you can order it directly from me. I'll PM you the details.

[MotorsportARTIST]

Hi everyone, visit my website to see some of my motorsport artwork from F1, Moto GP, BTCC and Steve McQueen stuff.
The website is now browse only as I have had to cease trading due to the joy of Multiple Scelerosis but I'm sure in time with the right help I'll be back and able to paint again.
anyway, i hope you like them.
Visit My Website. The gallery of SPEED

[smarjoram]

Hi everyone, visit my website to see some of my motorsport artwork from F1, Moto GP, BTCC and Steve McQueen stuff.
The website is now browse only as I have had to cease trading due to the joy of Multiple Scelerosis but I'm sure in time with the right help I'll be back and able to paint again.
anyway, i hope you like them.
Visit My Website. The gallery of SPEED

I'm gutted to hear that Oliver. I really hope you manage to paint again. If there's anything we can do to help you do say so. If you're trying to raise funds for MS organisations I might be able to get Richard Noble and Andy Green to sign one of my LSR Prints which we could then put up for auction.

[MotorsportARTIST]

I'm gutted to hear that Oliver. I really hope you manage to paint again. If there's anything we can do to help you do say so. If you're trying to raise funds for MS organisations I might be able to get Richard Noble and Andy Green to sign one of my LSR Prints which we could then put up for auction.

Thats absolutely fantastic, thank you. I'm in talks with a few series, circuits, teams etc about what can be done to raise awareness on MS and I'll be in touch soon.
Thanks for your kind words I really appreciate them, it's very early days and hopefully with the right medication i'll get some form of control back......bloody hope so....so many paintings in my head i need to get out on paper.

[Tony Matthews]

...so many paintings in my head i need to get out on paper.

I'm so sorry to hear of your illness - I know what you mean about the paintings in your head! Here's hoping for frequent periods of remission if not a complete cure.

[MotorsportARTIST]

I'm so sorry to hear of your illness - I know what you mean about the paintings in your head! Here's hoping for frequent periods of remission if not a complete cure.

Cheers Tony, I really appreciate that. There is always hope....something I'm very thankful for. Just concentrating now on raising awareness for some of th UKs MS organisations, something I can do whilst i'm unable to paint and run my business. Really hoping that after talks we can have an MS presence in some form in UK motorsport ( lol I know how much of an uphill struggle that will be.....theres some 'wonderfully' selfish people in our joyous sport, quite willing to take take take (experience in motorsport for 15 years tell me this) but never give).
stay healthy, keep smiling and thanks again :-)

[JacnGille]

Get well soon!!!!!!!!!!!

[fispeed]

Hello, best wishes and merry christmas to everybody, but specially for you, motorsportARTIST!

with a painting of Johann Abt, German Hillclimber, speeding up his Abarth 1000 in 1971 under rainy conditions

[fispeed]

The machinery ripping through pure nature is such a jarring and exciting contrast. That's missing because the natural setting has been pushed back from the track, put behind barricades and billboards and safety runoffs. It's all done for good reason in the name of safety of course, but yes, aesthetically it's not as nice as it used to be.

Thats exactly what i mean, Jones Foyer, my English will not do to express it like you did. Sometimes when i discuss things with "green" people, it's hard to explain that it is possible to like both, motor racing AND nature. Of course today it's more and more difficult to avoid conflicts between these interest groups. In Switzerland the reason to ban circuit racing was the Le Mans accident in 1955. Today, the argument to keep the ban is environment protection. For the ecologists racing fans are the natural enemies, for the car lovers ecologists are blinded people. The world is getting smaller and it is not easy to persist a broad-minded person...

[alansart]

Although I don't classify this as art as such, I quite like the effect. Turning photos into vectors by importing them into Adobe Illustrator and using Live Paint. Different settings give different results which can be tweaked afterwards.

[byrkus]

I finally started uploading my drawings. So far only letter A (Abarth to Awtovelo BMW) is online, more to come in future.

Link to photostream

[tbolt]

I finally started uploading my drawings. So far only letter A (Abarth to Awtovelo BMW) is online, more to come in future.

Link to photostream

Thanks Byrkus, I had never heard of "Bizzarrini" their Manta has got to be one of the ugliest cars ever made. Tbolt.

[alansart]

Thanks Byrkus, I had never heard of "Bizzarrini" their Manta has got to be one of the ugliest cars ever made. Tbolt.

The Iso Bizzarrini is beautiful

[smarjoram]

Never heard of Bizzarini?! I presume you've heard of the Ferrari 250GTO? He was the chief engineer on that. Admittedly the Manta is a bit of a sign of the times - but I still think it has some great details. Homework is to read this page ...

http://en.wikipedia....otto_Bizzarrini

[bradbury west]

Stefan, that is a nice little write up in Octane for you.......
Roger Lund

[smarjoram]

Thanks Roger, it was a nice surprise and jolly nice of them to offer. Pity there wasn't a bit more space for the pictures but I'm very pleased all the same.

[scorerr770]

Hi Guys.

Not sure if I have put links up of some of my latest work and latest is more artwork than cutaway so hope you like. Still trying to turn it from hobby to profitable work.

Fiesta S2000 SWRC now the WRC Ford entry for 2011

Jade, Open Sports Car Series

F1 Stockcar European Champion 2010

Will be at the NEC on Saturday 15th for Racing Car Show so if you spot a guy in a blck t-shirt with technical illustrations on front and back then please stop me and say hi.

all the best and Happy New Year

[smarjoram]

I met a terrific chap just 10 mins from where I live who's very kindly let me come and sketch in his workshop. Some very exciting cars there are too.

A GN Vitesse with an 8.2 litre Curtiss V8...



A GN with a 3.5 litre V Twin Anzani...



... and the 24 litre, four cylinder Fiat S76. I'm looking forward to drawing this as it get's put together...







The clean looking ones are done on an iPad. It makes a nice change from a pencil and I quite like the graphic look. There's a bit more info about them on my blog. Hope you like them.

[werks prototype]

Another entire page of brilliant work!

[macoran]

Another entire page of brilliant work!

I agree, what would you call the style ?
Playfull abstract acuratesse or somesuch
I just wish my pencils and brushes were as good as yours Stefan !

[werks prototype]

I agree, what would you call the style ?
Playfull abstract acuratesse or somesuch
I just wish my pencils and brushes were as good as yours Stefan !

I don't know really. We better ask them. I'd say it is a bloody good eye coupled with genuine enthusiasm for the subject matter. They have just got a nice feeling to them.

There is nothing stopping you Marc! How about an update of teenage Macorans 330P4 for a start?

[smarjoram]

Thanks for the nice comments. Enthusiasm definitely comes into it - I can't think of a place I'd rather sit and draw than in a shed full of bits of steel and brass and the smell of castrol...



... unless the pussycat dolls ever did some life drawing classes that is

[macoran]

There is nothing stopping you Marc! How about an update of teenage Macorans 330P4 for a start?

Would have to be some grandad macoran stuff now

[macoran]

There is nothing stopping you Marc! How about an update of teenage Macorans 330P4 for a start?

OK WP here are two more the punk did for the set of five
1967 Le Mans Ford MkIV Dan Gurney/ A.J.Foyt


1955 LeMans Jaguar Dtype Mike Hawthorn/Ivor Bueb