Asuka & Nadia in: Car-mageddon!
| 20 June 2010
But if the engine is running, the lights are on,
and the girls are outside...
Start your engines, PHN--vu-zelas! It's time for the World Cup of coloring, and I promise you don't even have to adjust the equalizers on your TV sound to not go insane! Today, it's Asuka and Nadia, the first ladies of funk, with a shockingly red Mitsubishi EVO Lancer-X! No stock parts on this bad boy: we're talking custom wide-body, new front air dam, side skirt, custom spoiler, mirrors, and I'm pretty sure the engine inside is like, changed too. Probably. Wheels by Konig, and carbon fiber parts wherever fine carbon fibers are sold! You may recall I did a similar piece two years ago, and that one was more outlandish in the mods I did. This time, I went with a more conservative, "I wouldn't be embarassed driving this car around" bit. It's less of an EVA mobile, more of a street demon. And the racing queen outfits are, once again, based on what the lovely ladies wear in their outlandish animes. Because authenticity is always in style.
Because if there's anything PHN knows,
it's style.
So let's "rap" about the artwork. I wish I could say I was a master of perspectives and was able to nail that car in one go, but I had to use a lot of reference art/toy cars/catalogs and magazines to get it down. Even now I'm not 100% confident everything lines up where it should, but I can't say that I'm disappointed in the work. The coloring is standard for me, but you might take notice of the fog/dust in front of the headlights/fog lights. The lights on the water front were fun too, as well as sneaking in stars as they fade away towards the overpowering lights in the city. I'm also working in color overlays into my work more, a trend I'm noticing in a lot of Japanese fanarts. I don't want it to be overpowering, so I do it subtly, but as I get more confident in how I want the work to look, I'll try to push it out more. They tend to make the work look more...otherworldy. A sort of capricious look that I find to really compliment the whimsical nature of my work.
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In summation, I really enjoyed this work. I hate drawing cars, but I certainly like painting/coloring them in. That polished metal is a real challenge/fun ordeal that once you get it, it makes all the difference in the world. Plus I love Nadia and Asuka, and drawing them is like drawing two friends who I never met, nor did they ever exist. Whoa......that's heady. This is Philosophical PHN, foregoing the usual frivolities to foray into philandering frothy females from their frightful fathers! Adieu!