Jaguar Drawings

XK120

 I was commissioned last summer to do a series of drawings for a classic Jaguar showroom close to where I live. The company has quite a few E-Types and XK120s in their showroom, and also restore classic Jaguars. They wanted 4 drawings: one of 2 E-Types, one of 2 XK120s, one of a D-Type and XKSS, and one of a C-Type.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D-Type & XKSS

E-Type

 These are by far the biggest drawings I have ever done.. they are more than 130cm across and around 85cm high. I drew them on card, which came as a 10m roll, using markers, pastels, gouache, pencils and fineliners.
The C-Type drawing did get finished, but I have not currently got a good quality photo.

Spark Plugs

Spark Plug

 I created some spark plugs on Photoshop for a project to create some patterns etc. This is the result. The original spark plug is almost 6000 pixels wide so that it can be printed massive as a poster or picture for the wall. I like the minimal use of colour and the apparent simplicity the image has. There are no gradients, as I wanted a very graphical appearance. I found it difficult to represent the form of the spark plug using blocks of colour, but I am happy with the result.

Pattern

Another Pattern

Progression of TR3A Painting

Painting in the pencil lines

Finishing off the colour

Addind detail

Finished Painting

Some more old art - Portraits

 I had a portrait project at college at the end of the first year and start of the second. These are a couple of the pages I did. Unfortunately lots of the drawings have become very smudged over the last year and are now just grey pages.

Biro drawing

Stencil

Self Portrait

Final piece development

More development

Final piece

..zoomed in

My final piece was about 40cm x 60cm done with a range of materials including paint, pastel, pens and tea staining.

The City

Taxi stencil

I did a project on the city a couple of years ago at college. The taxi painting i recently posted is the final piece I created for the project. Here are a couple more pieces from that project.

Movement study -pastel on card

Pen sketches

Pastel on black paper

A large amount of the work was focused on speed and movement, and also reflections. I liked Estes' paintings especially, which have extensive use of reflections. In many of his paintings he shows only a small part of a car, or fills the frame with a window, but manages to depict the feeling of a city by bringing in additional information surrounding the object in the form of reflections.

Reflections study - pastel on blue card

Acrylic study of reflections in a London taxi