Today Was A Good Day To Sketch

After taking a bit of a step back, I realized that with all the speculative renderings and super realistic/production intent stuff I've been doing lately, I've strayed considerably from what got me drawing in my spare time in the first place: imagining things that are fantastic, extraordinary and most importantly, non-existent!  Removing myself from the rut of reality got me back into drawing some things that made me shout expletives they excited me so.  I was overdue for some fun!  I will be rendering some of these in one form or another..

These are assorted vehicles from a place where energy and resources are overly abundant, so efficiency is a preposterous notion.  These top cars are a ball-drive coupe, scroll down for more explanations. 

The car above is Jet driven, you may notice the wing on the top of the car, which raises only at high speeds to A: keep the car on the ground and B: let 2x the air into the engines. Something about the front makes me want to say this is a Maserati.

 This car can be compared to a slot car. Notice the large motors mounted outboard of the wheels, surrounded by heat-sink fins.  This would belong to a racing series to find more powerful ways to build motors using a powered race circuit.  I put the wheels on the inside because the motors get too hot to be near eachother, and it'd make awesome sparks going around corners!

Corvette Family

Corvette Chaparral Concept

Corvette Sting Ray Concept

These renderings were done for Autoextremist and Autoline Daily as two vehicles that would expand the Corvette brand to include a top-tier Supercar and a more casual roofless Roadster.  The articles' insight was reinforced and brought to life with these visual aides.

F70

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Gnarly Pile of Billet

I don't quite understand people's disdain for billet.  I agree it's often misused to make simple, crude looking parts, but it's also the choice method for making some of the coolest metal parts in the world, like racing brake calipers and fighter aircraft bulkheads.  I think as at-home rapid prototyping settles in, home based computer operated mills could start pumping out sweet billet parts with the same stroke of creativity that garage builders with migs and tigs are showing now.

Internet Transience

Another 15 seconds of fame gone!  How fleeting our interest can be.

Mustang Mach x1 on a coastal highway

Here, the Mustang Mach x1 concept makes another appearance: this time tearing up a two-lane coastal highway.  This version has an updated front fascia and rocker panel to reflect the form language of Ford's EVOS concept, and Fusion vehicle.  Many other 50th anniversary Mustang speculations have adopted the EVOS' looks, but I still wanted to see it with this proportion.
The Mustang Mach x1 is planned to be a very low production (50) 50th anniversary celebration vehicle, and hearkens to selected details of the '68 fastback and '69 Mach 1.  Although the Mustang has been the go-to car for affordable American performance, this version would shatter that tradition by being the highest-performance, most exclusive car available from the Big Three.  Power coming from a supercharged DOHC v10 mounted to a dual-clutch transmission, negotiated through a finely-tuned IRS would let this car walk past just about everything else on the highways.  It would be valued world-over as a collectible vehicle, and act as the bookend for the "retro Mustangs" as new models roll off the line with contemporary styling, made to global homologation standards.

Santa Speedster

I mentioned this some time ago back when Tim challenged us to do winter-specific vehicles last year.  I drew this for winter 2010 and never colored it until this week.  I was ski-and-tracked out in 2011 since I did the Arctic Breeze and SNOWJET sketches.  This has some influences from 30's Auburns / Cords, and the traditional Coca-Cola Santa- now with vintage goggles.  Merry Christmas!

Ad Critique

I'm not saying its anywhere near exact, but it's more similar than I'd like it to be.  I've been talking with co-workers about road the presence classic Lincolns and Cadillacs have. This would appear to be incomparable.