Saucer men!

Sketching Ufo`s and aliens. Cgtalk topic. 40 - 50 minutes.

Custom Ford

Fifties Custom Ford

1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz

just short digital painting of 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz.. This car was different than the other 1957 Cadillacs... Kinda unique thing! :)

Pinup girl with 1959 Cadillac in garage..

Plah, still making pretty awful sketches but atleast im trying to improve...

1957 Chevrolet Bel Air

I think this is my best car painting so far.. Maybe I am bit by bit getting better (with this pace its going to take for ever) ;P

so here it is, green (I was trying custom turquoise but my colors turn always bit dirty)

1957 Chevy Bel Air

And here is step by step the 1957 chevrolet paintings process....

This Bel Air painting I started just by line work. I wanted to make more perspective work because I dont have much practice on perspective... and its always nice to play with it.

This time I added shadows, or more darker lines to see the real shapes of the car.

Now basic colors.. "midtone" whole car and then start painting highlighs and shadows into it.

Final layer with most of work I suppose... after 1 - 2 hours from beginning this is result.. I think these 1957 Chevys are one of the most beatiful American classics.. and im not the only one who likes these. Looking on ebay these convertible prices are almost close to 100 000$... So I rather keep my rusty Cadillac going.. 

Rock roll guys!

Hot Hods racing in desert

This is my 50th post!! Again doing so many other things than painting, so not so much paintings as I was hoping. Here is 1932 Ford Coupe 3w (three window) and 1951 Ford shoebox Custom racing somewhere... I wanted to make a painting with some story and with hot rods, not only one rod. I should paint more hot rods and customs to tune up my skills...

1960 cadillac painting with some rockabilly guy :D

Random painting with 1960 Cadillac.. not much a scene painter yet. :)

1936 Ford Hot rod painting.

mixing comic style / painting... Would be nice to have a hotrod with rumble seat.. some kind of a dream :D

Photo from my 1960 Cadillac De Ville

Photo this time. From last september. My Cadillac Sedan Deville flattop. Awsome body model, nice patine.. Most coolest Cadillac ever! (my personal opinion). Tried to make some film effect on it. Exposure was pretty awful, cheap camera and it was really early in the morning. Im not much a photographer.

1958 Chevrolet Bel Air in comic style drawing

More comic style practise drawing.. This time car. 1958 Chevy Bel Air with some photoshop comic style effects to make it more "cooler". Pretty satisfied to result. More I put time into painting / drawing -> better results. This was fast also.. 30mins about.

my "cartoon" style pinup practise sketch.

Here is the try out of today.. I still cant get rid of the painting style but atleast I tryed some lineart pinup... maybe I have to find some more sources and learning materials from the web. I think I am getting closer bit by bit. Atleast now, best thing would be paint and sketch everyday. No way other way to learn to paint pin ups and characters without doing it everyday.

Todays Pinup painting practise.

Characters are really hard to paint.. I have to try paint more pin ups and more people, more sketching etc. Today I just was randomly looking for reference for pinups and I found one pretty nice gesture for this pinup painting. I think this is best so far for my paintings. Still long way to go for perfection. I have to learn more maybe cartoonish style. Less painting maybe and more lineart... My goal is still to make cool pinup rockabilly fifties style paintings with some kind of story in the paintings :)

1958 Plymouth Fury

I was checking today what I haven`t painted yet. 1958 Plymouth Fury, like in the movie christine. Super cool fifties car. I also tried new open canvas 5, so maybe thats why my fury painting was bit failure. I have to get used to more this newest openCanvas. I think this 1958 Plymouth is the coolest mopar with wings. I definatly have to paint this car once more when I get some more practise. I seem to have problem with perspective and some other things too.. I should to more exercises. Maybe next time try to paint 1958 Plymouth convertible :)

Bettie Page Pin Up portrait...

More pin ups.. less cars. So I had to try to paint Bettie page. Doesnt resemble too much Bettie page but im still happy for the result. I should finish reading those Andrew Loomis books and practise more figure drawing to get better results in pin up drawings and painting!

1958 Chevrolet Corvette

I was looking for something to paint and never actually painted these roadster chevy corvettes :) 30mins and I feel I still suck :D

1959 Chevy Flat top impala.

Few years ago we were driving around the city and we saw pink 1960 Chevrolet Bel Air. I promised to paint that car to my friend... Now I finally made it, but because I like 1959 more I painted it... and didn`t paint the correct color either :D

1951 Buick Super lead sled custom

Started listen to rockabilly today. I just had to paint some cool custom.. So I painted this Buick from 1951... Something I haven`t painted yet. :)

1950 Shoebox Ford

1950 Shoebox Ford convertible. :P Would be nice to have one... I just want convertible someday.

Marilyn Monroe potrait painting.

Woke up this morning at 7am and no school... pretty unusual for me. Wanted to make an portrait painting to practise hair. I was looking for sometime pretty girls but then I decicated to make the portrait about Marilyn Monroe because it would fit this blog also... Im actually pretty satisfied about few things. This is the first time in my portraits the hair does look like an hair (atleast littlebit). It still doesn`t look too much Marilyn but atleast I had fun painting it :)

My first real pinup painting try!

I have been made lots of sketches about characters but I never really tryed to make "real" pinup painting. This image started also as sketch but I wanted to make it little more finished than just a sketch. 1,5hour spend on it... Still more practise needed but I am actually happy for few things. The face the most.. I allways have had problems with making anykind of face that even reminds human face, espicially womens. I made this face totally from imagination so I have improved little bit. Still long way to Vargas or other famous Pinup artists quality :P

1932 Ford Roadster

Been busy & lazy thats why no updates. Been drawing and painting still.. trying to learn characters also. but here is 1932 Ford Roadster...

1960 Pontiac Catalina Station Wagon with Supercharger

I wanted to paint Pontiac 1960 model. I didnt saw so many photos from Station Wagon, so I assumed its has to be pretty rare. Also I wanted to add supercharger into this Pontiac. Its allways crazy to have Supercharged Station wagon. Doesnt make so much sense, thats why its so cool!

Painted with OpenCanvas software in one hour.

Finland is number two in Rockabilly!!

littlebit offtopic, but I was just messing around with google`s Adword tools and I found out. That Finland is number two in whole planet in searching Rockabilly! Thats pretty cool if we consider that Finland doesn`t have so many people (only 5 - 6 millions).

But ofcourse sweden took again the longer straw on this...! They are number one. Maybe because they have over 9 million people living there. Actually 5% of them are Finns; who are probably just searching rockabilly in Sweden (just kiddin`).

But hey, overall it means that Nordic countries can really ROCK!

1964 Plymouth Valiant V-100

Here is painting I made like 1 month ago or something. 1964 Plymouth Valiant.. I was looking prices of them from internet and I got really motivated to paint one. My first american car ever was -65 Valiant, so I had to paint its older sister :)

225 Slantsix !! really famous engine for its durability. You just cant brake em. I think they are pretty economy too. Allmost fits to my student budget.

1959 Buick Electra Convertible

More cool convertibles from GM. 1959 Buick! Really awsome car with "aerodynamic" delta fin!! This Fin era only lasted few years (maybe because it was really hard to park with fins blocking your view) but these fin cars (especially from General Motors) are my favorites. Maybe thats why I mostly paint em :)

I really wanted to try make some story on background. I was too lazy (not skilful enought) to paint people there also.
Maybe next time something different. Maybe time to try some fifties pinup paintings.

Ps. Here is cool fifties doo wop song about buick 59 :D

1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz

Today I painted this one of the most legendary car ever made! (Atleast for me).
Only 1 320 of them made which makes it really wanted car for collectors. What Im been looking at ebay prices of these beauties are 80 000$ and more! Even really junky project 1959 Biarritz convertible are priced over 10 000 - 15 000$ or even more.

Im actually glad I prefer the De Ville (6300 series) model more. I think Biarritz has too much chrome stuff for my taste. I also prefer 1960 year model to be the most beatiful Cadillac ever made. Which is even better, because everybody seems to be wanting the legendary fifty nine Cadillac!

I made this with freeware software called OpenCanvas 1.1
Doesnt really have useful layers in this software (it has layers, but I have no idea how it works and I think no one else does either!). I really love this software how the brush is working. I have tryed to emulate this really basic round brush to Photoshop but I never got the same soft feeling into it. Also this OpenCanvas 1.1 is just lightwave to use. Also you can review your painting process with OpenCanvas which is really nice feature. You can learn from other people paintings by getting their project files. Painting took about 1h 30mins.

Later on I will try to upload the process of this painting to Youtube!

1961 Chevrolet Impala bubbletop

I think this bubbletop design lasted only one year, 1961. One of the coolest coupe designs on these classics. But I still prefer the flat tops! (1959 - 1960 only). Im not sure, what I heard there might be also buick with this kind of bubble top roof. Somebody correct me if im wrong!

Time consumed about 1h. It has biscaynes chromes but Impalas backlights. I forgot to paint the crome lists :P

My 1960 Cadillac Sedan Deville Flattop Patina Project

Here it is! I had to paint my own car, which I bought this last summer (2010) really cheap. Im going to keep the patina on it.. Maybe its on highway again someyear!

1958 Desoto Diplomat

Really cool fifties wing style convertible car. 1958 Desoto Diplomat!! I think Im starting to improve little. This sketch was really fast, about 25 - 30 minutes total.

1946 Buick Roadmaster

Cuba libree!! ;)

1961 Chrysler STW sketch ~20min

Fifties buick roadmaster!

In city scene!

1964 Ford Mustang painting!

My friend wanted me to paint Mustang for her. So here it is!

1960 Oldsmobile

something with scenery also. Gotta get better :P

1960 Buick le sabre flattop

Flattop Buick!!!

1959 Cadillac De Ville

I tryed to practise some vector grafics and after that normal digital painting!

1959 Chevrolet Bel-Air

No updates for ever but im still painting!

Rockabilly Rat Rod

Its too hot in here...

1955 Chevrolet Belair

I was watching today this movie called two-lane blacktops! It seems to be really great movie for fifties and muscle car fans! Because of this movie I planned to paint today the main car of the movie! 1955 Chevrolet, its not my favorite car but its still so cool and fits right into this blog.

took me about 35mins and I tryed to make somekinda enviroment also.

Hello, Im Johnny Cash

I was listening Johnny Cash on youtube and in one of those videos was really nice photo of hem. So I tryed to make fast sketch of it. Not so much look alike but was nice and fast to paint!

About 20 minutes.

1960 Cadillac Deville

Ok one more time this 1960 Cadillac! Its my biggest dream ever! I made new blog for getting my dream come true and I had to paint logo(header) for it.

Its right now 2:30 AM and im still painting. I just love summer and free time. I just wish someday, hopefully next summer I could have my own 1960 Cadillac. Convertible would be the coolest but they might too expensive for me. Coupe and flattop are also so amazing.

It would be so nice to drive to dance pavillion with this kind of Cadillac and listening fifties doowop rock `n roll music on the trip there. :)

1960 Plymouth Belvedere

Here is the one of the coolest plymouth ever made (in my opition ofcourse)! It would be so cool to own this kind of 1960 Plymouth with 255 slantsix engine and automatic transmission!

Fifties style girl!

Here is women i tryed to draw. Black and white. I used reference from photo of Marilyn Monroe.

I have some problems with eyes.. next time I have to draw only eyes and lots of em!
30mins

1950 Ford!

Black and white Ford sketch! 50min.

1932 Hot rod Ford painting!

Here is the newest one I made today. There is no rock `n roll without an 1932 Ford! Im getting little better with this wheel problem :)

Fifties pinup style painting

Today I wanted to study some forms of women and pinup style. Really fast 25min sketch.
I watchet some Alberto Vargas pinup paintings and used one as reference.