Saturday, April 30, 2011

More Bugatti Sketches

Whilst drawing in the Bugatti Trust I met Charles Trevelyan, the owner of one of the other cars on display (the T23 in the previous post) who asked if I'd sketch his car too. I found it harder than usual - I need to find a way of dealing with the pressure of doing a comission instead of just drawing for yourself. I seem to be getting slower instead of faster too. Despite this it turned out to be a very exciting day as I got a ride up the Prescott hill in Charles' other Bugatti - a wonderfully sporty looking Type 37. This car drawing has become quite an amazing adventure - each drawing seems to lead to meeting another enthusiastic owner with another exciting car - getting the chance to occasionally ride in them is the icing on the cake.

Here's a quick warm up sketch...


A couple of longer A3 studies...


I felt they were getting a bit tight so I reverted to smaller, looser drawings. I'd be interested to hear which ones you think work better...

This is a car which also belongs to Charles. It's a Type 52 - which is actually a half-scale children's version of a Type 35 - the first one was built by Ettore for his youngest son in 1927. Lucky chap. It had an electric motor and the engineering, naturally, is superb - even featuring cable operated drum brakes to all four wheels...

Finally I ended the day with a quick sketch on the iPad using Adobe Ideas...

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Bugatti T23 Engine

Had a spare half-hour whilst visiting Prescott today so I nipped in the museum and made a quick sketch...


New App and quick car doodle/paint

Here's a little test done with my latest iPad painting app - Procreate. It doesn't have loads of features but it does have some great brush creation controls and a nice simple interface. This was done entirely on the ipad - starting with a quick zenbrush sketch...


... and here's the Procreate part. The app allows you to make your own brushes using images for both the shape and texture. It also has layers and is reasonably fast. The new version will apparently be higher resolution - which is good. It costs $7.99...