A collection of American classic cars

This design is inspired upon multiple classic American cars.  Some you'll recognise from movies like American Graffiti or Smokey and the Bandit others are classic cars that probably everyone will remember.  The different cars are framed within roads and halftones are used for a vintge look and to ensure the best print results. 

I hope you'll like it.  And as usually feel free to leave a suggestion or comment.  Have a good day and until next time. 

Greetings Andres 

The classic deux chevaux charleston

I really liked the drawing of the classic Deux Chevaux but got a bit bored by the colours that I used so I thought it would be a good idea to give it fresh two tone charleston colour scheme.  

As usually I used halftones for shading and to give it a little bit of that vintage comic vibe. It's also available without text and on many products in my Premium shops like shirts , long sleeve shirt, mugs, pillows, phone cases, etcetera.  

Have a great day and feel free to leave a suggestion or comment in this blog or on my Instagram account.  

Greetings Andres 

Christmas design , Santa Express

For this year I added some colour to the Santa Express I draw last year. The van is inspired upon a vw T3 van. 

It's available on Teepublic, Neatoshop and Spreadshirt.  And be sure to order on time .

Have a great weekend, stay healthy and until next time.  

Greetings Andres 

Color and drawing pages

As a parent with a passion for drawing you want teach your kid ( or kids ) how to draw. Well I have noticed a lot of online tutorials aren't really good, they skip steps and doesn't explain properly how a drawing is put together. And the good tutorials are aimed at adults and not appealing to kids. Then you have coloring pages that limits the creativity because all the lines are already in the drawing. So things can be better, and untill recently I didn't know a good way, but then I got chatting with a freelance illustrator on Instagram and she send a link to her website. And she made a color and drawing page a page with room for creativity a silhouet, some lines and the idea to draw a figure within this silhouet. A way so kids can have fun and learn how to draw. My approach is to explain how the drawing is put together with small drawings beside the main drawing, here you can see the basic shapes that become an drawing. 

Of course this method can be used on more complex drawings and tutorials for kids and adults who are more experienced, and in the future I'll probably also create a couple of pages for a higher skilled level. 

Here are some pages made by my daughter: 

You can see these color drawing pages in a seperated section on my blog.  

Have fun and feel free to leave a suggestion.

Untill next time,

Greetings Andres 

It's a Vantastic life

This design is inspired upon the VW T3 van, and I know for sure many people agree with me when I say life or summer is more fun when you drive a classic van 😁😉 .

I remember my old VW T3 van, I used it for almost everything. And in many ways they where better than the modern vans that VW produced after the T3 production ended. This van has a overall length and wheelbase similar to a regular car, so it's nimble and very easy to park. And because it's a van it's practical, with extra seats in the back you could go on a trip with 6 persons. And because almost the total length was all "interior" space you could sleep in the back what was ideal when I went to a minibike race ( yep minibike racing was my big hobby in the late 90's ). 

So in my opinion is the VW T3 camper van represent ultimate freedom and good life. And with that in mind I created this design, it's all about enjoying life , traveling and adventure. Hope you like it.

By the way this design comes in 3 variations and is only available on Teepublic and Neatoshop. 

As always if you have any questions or suggestions just leave a comment.

Until next time.

Greetings Andres. 

Trash Panda

Trash Pandas trashing a Fiat Panda mk1. I wanted to create a design with the classic Panda mk1 and came up with this idea. To make a more complete design I added a border around the drawing and used two edited vacation images for the background. The images are taken in a street in Italy and just some tree, adjusted brightness, contrast and colours until I just had black and white. 

The design looks best on light colours. And if you want there is also a version without text.