How to Draw Crazy Cars & Mad Monsters Like a Pro (Motorbooks Studio) - Tapa blanda

Being a lifelong fa of the late and sorely missed Ed' Big daddy' Roth, I origionally intended to review Thom taylors and Ed Newt Newtons book describing how to draw crazy cars and mad monsters. however, as taylor's previous book How to Draw cars Like a pro has many interelated techniques, I thought it would be more productive to review them together. Like many people, I have been scribbeling pictures of cars most of my life. As a child of the Sixties, at a time when monster comics, model kits, and T-shirts were all the rage, and the likes of The Munsters and The Addams family were appearing weekly on our monochrome TV's, I attributed much of my inspiration to Roth. What i did not realise untill recently was that Newt Newton who joined Roth studios from art college in tthe early sixties was actually the designer of many of Roth's outrageour show cars and T-shirt designs. don't get me wrong - as the father of the infamous Rat fink, roth was a talented artist in his own right, but it was probably Newton's work with which i was familiar. Unfortunatly, my natural artistic skills are limited and i confess I never progressed further than detailed doodles. I therfore could have benefited from both these books - How to Draw Cars Like a Pro, and How to Draw Crazy Cars and Mad Monsters - 40 years ago, which complemet each other nicely. Only the supremely talented can become artists overnight and they wouldn't need instruction, so Taylor sensibly starts with the basics. In each book he explains about the tools of the trade, perspective, light, shadow, proportion, ellipses, light source, and refelections. as you might realistically expect much of this knowledge is repeated in both books. to be fair, there is no other way round it. However, the deeper into each volume you delve the more the content evolves towards the chosen subject matter. There's some similarity when describing how ot draw caricatures of vehicles but inevitably the carzy cars and mad monsters book leans towards cartoons. Taylor explains in easy to understand steps how to develope simplistic scribbelings into finished drawings and paintings. he describes the different methods of colouring developing drawings form teh coloured pencil and felt tip marker pen to the use of paint and more involved computer generated techniques. In demonstrating these methods he features the work of many other artists a number of whom you may recognise. In Draw Cars Like a Pro there are examples from Street Rodder magazine's resident cartoonist Dave bella s well as car designer Steve stanford and artist darrell Mayabb and Greg tedder. The Crazy Cars book is equally colourfull and features work from low brow artists Dave Big Deal Lance,Mr Distortion, Sorchick,Keith Weesner,C Cruz. Of course authors Taylor and Newton both contribute considerable material that is both informative and inspiring. Thank you Mr Taylor and friends. --Classic American, March, 2010

A really good 'how to' book, taking you through all the steps in a clear, informative way without making you feel too inadequate if you're a beginner. Chapter one ' A Quick History' sets the tone of the book superbly and offers a well-written insight to this imaginative art form. Tools of the trade are well laid out as well as the sections on perspective and proportion which you might think need no explanation but if you're drawing carzy cars you might need some crazy perspective which will enhance the overall dynamism which you might require to make an okay picture into a piece of art you can be proud of. Chapter nine has the coolest heading of all 'Smoke, Flies, Warts, Drool and Bloodshot Eyes' says it really...you can have some fun with this one. Overall a worthwhile book that will certainly be plucked from the reference shelf with regularity. --Pinstriping Uk, March, 2010

Being a lifelong fa of the late and sorely missed Ed' Big daddy' Roth, I origionally intended to review Thom taylors and Ed Newt Newtons book describing how to draw crazy cars and mad monsters. however, as taylor's previous book How to Draw cars Like a pro has many interelated techniques, I thought it would be more productive to review them together. Like many people, I have been scribbeling pictures of cars most of my life. As a child of the Sixties, at a time when monster comics, model kits, and T-shirts were all the rage, and the likes of The Munsters and The Addams family were appearing weekly on our monochrome TV's, I attributed much of my inspiration to Roth. What i did not realise untill recently was that Newt Newton who joined Roth studios from art college in tthe early sixties was actually the designer of many of Roth's outrageour show cars and T-shirt designs. don't get me wrong - as the father of the infamous Rat fink, roth was a talented artist in his own right, but it was probably Newton's work with which i was familiar. Unfortunatly, my natural artistic skills are limited and i confess I never progressed further than detailed doodles. I therfore could have benefited from both these books - How to Draw Cars Like a Pro, and How to Draw Crazy Cars and Mad Monsters - 40 years ago, which complemet each other nicely. Only the supremely talented can become artists overnight and they wouldn't need instruction, so Taylor sensibly starts with the basics. In each book he explains about the tools of the trade, perspective, light, shadow, proportion, ellipses, light source, and refelections. as you might realistically expect much of this knowledge is repeated in both books. to be fair, there is no other way round it. However, the deeper into each volume you delve the more the content evolves towards the chosen subject matter. There's some similarity when describing how ot draw caricatures of vehicles but inevitably the carzy cars and mad monsters book leans towards cartoons. Taylor explains in easy to understand steps how to develope simplistic scribbelings into finished drawings and paintings. he describes the different methods of colouring developing drawings form teh coloured pencil and felt tip marker pen to the use of paint and more involved computer generated techniques. In demonstrating these methods he features the work of many other artists a number of whom you may recognise. In Draw Cars Like a Pro there are examples from Street Rodder magazine's resident cartoonist Dave bella s well as car designer Steve stanford and artist darrell Mayabb and Greg tedder. The Crazy Cars book is equally colourfull and features work from low brow artists Dave Big Deal Lance,Mr Distortion, Sorchick,Keith Weesner,C Cruz. Of course authors Taylor and Newton both contribute considerable material that is both informative and inspiring. Thank you Mr Taylor and friends. --Classic American, March, 2010

Chopped, slammed, channeled, blown . . . in the late '50s and early '60s all of these features lent themselves nicely to the rise of hot rod art that caricaturized the already severe design traits associated with these cars. Usually, the rods and customs in this art were piloted by slobbering, snaggle-toothed "monsters" with bulging, bloodshot eyes. Thanks to the iron-on T-shirt boom of the '70s and a raft of younger artists working today, hot rod monsters have persevered. Now award-winning car-designer Thom Taylor and legendary kustom culture figure Ed Newton reveal the tricks and techniques used by masters past and present to render these whack rods and their warts-and-all drivers. Beginning with a brief history of the form, the authors examine figures like Stanley Mouse, Ed Roth, and Newton himself, then reveal how those pioneers influenced modern artists like Keith Weesner, John Bell, and Dave Deal, to name a few. In addition to offering chapters covering topics like equipment, perspective, light sources, and other technical considerations, Taylor expands on the cartooning, proportion, and color chapters from his previous works, applying them to the subject at hand. Also includes dozens of examples of the form from many of the above-mentioned artists and more.