Visual Homage: basement archives_sunbeam

[bonzelite]

by popular demand, i am digging in the basement archives of Visual Homage for your viewing pleasure --circa 1965 street scene, old town vegas strip:


stay hooked and Visual Homage will provide old and new material.

[bonzelite]

pull up a chair and have a moment ---from a fledgling career, from another lifetime, deep from the archives, is this mercedes mall concept drawing. customer sits and negotiates with a salesperson in f/g:



where i have come from.
where i have gone.
where i will yet go.

a pensive moment of reflection...

[bonzelite]

what would the realm of cars be without speed traps?

from the archives, i bring you this old ad comp. it was one of the few
comps i did that i actually liked and enjoy showing today:



(for saatchi & saatchi)

[mike@af]

Pretty Sweet, and dark.

[asaenz]

Those look great!
I like that speed trap.
What medium did you use (Speed Trap)?

Thx

Al

[Jeep_Rubicon]

They are amazing.

[bonzelite]

Originally Posted by asaenz

Those look great!
I like that speed trap.
What medium did you use (Speed Trap)?

Thx

Al

ad marker on xerox.

[Ra_15]

Nice! I like the first one the best, I like the cool angle and the refective road.

[bonzelite]

Originally Posted by Ra_15

Nice! I like the first one the best, I like the cool angle and the refective road.

thanks. that one is cropped, too. the drawing dimensions cannot fit on my scanner. drawing is longer and taller than what you see.

[KustmAce]

Nice presentation, I like your use of language. Really, I do. (no sarcasm)

Nice work too, I like the Mercedes dealer.

[bonzelite]

kustmace, thanks. there will be more.

[lemorris]

My jaw dropped onto my desk and my monitor smashed me in the face.

I can't take my eyes off them.

wow!!!

[asaenz]

I took a second look at first rendering.
That is awesome, cannot figure out what you used. So what did you use for that?

I like the street scene, hmmm how often do we see backgrounds here? Very nice.

Thx for sharing your work w/ us.
I look forward to seeing more, fow sho nuff.

al

[LTD]

Amazing. Simply amazing.

I especially liked the first picture.

BTW, how long did it take you to paint it?

[bonzelite]

i tend to hide the mediums i use so the viewer cannot tell if its paint or... what is it?

when i began coloring the sunbeam drawing, it took about 3 days to fully dial it in. it took about a week, at leisure with spurts of intensity, to get the line drawing down. the front end of that car was a bish. and i made up the view from several views of the car. in other words, no view like what i did existed of that car. i had to interpolate it and the entire street with architecture. it is therefore a composite drawing made from dozens of references.

i used about 98% ad marker to do it, with some colored pencil and gouache hi-lites. many people assume it is painted. but it is only a drawing.

on color drawings, i typically will give the entire scene rather than just the car.

lemorris, thank you.