Adventure by Design - Custom Truck Portraits

Started on the 70's Land Cruiser

 

lol, thanks! you just reminded me about this thread, and I should probably get back to working on it!

 

Time for something new, I can't seem to get interested in the Cruiser right now.


Going to play around with this a bit

 

I'VE GOT AN IDEA!



It may not be a good one but at least I've got one. Want to test the waters a bit. I made this semi-generic drawing of a second gen. It's 11in x 15in. I'm curious to see if people might be interested in getting customized artwork based off this one design.

I can replicate this drawing fast enough over and over again. What I think might be cool is to be able to customize it to an individual's own vehicle. I can match your paint, even put your screen name as the licence plate, etc.
It would obviously be an original watercolor like all my others, only it would just be kind of like a form letter. Lots of people with the same image with subtle differences to make them individually unique.

(I'm thinking $80 + S/H)

I really feel like somewhere out there there's a niche for this, but I'm finding my custom artwork is time consuming and more expensive than what most people in here want to pay. I feel like this meets in the middle. Still custom original artwork, I'm just replicating it over and over.

Right now I'd like to offer a first gen and a second gen. And eventually other options as well.
I'm looking for feed back so please give me some!

 

Original preliminary drawing


Modified preliminary drawing

 

Looking Great! Nice work, I am looking forward to you finishing the FJ.

 

Thanks Rob! I needed to kick start myself to get back into painting. I'm hoping to get back to that after I finish up this one. Although there are a couple other coals in the fire at the moment, but will continue soon.

 

Hot damn!!! Can't say enough times how awesome this looks!

 

Are you going to do this one and sell it as a standard? If so can the truck color be any color?

 

Subd. Your art looks great and I love your idea to use your talents to immortalize tw trucks!

 

Hey I know this is a little outside of the norm of what you are posting here, but my wife's birthday is coming up. I can PM you a picture of our two dogs, is that something you would be interested in taking on?

 

My standard for the 1st gen will look like this, but colored in purchaser's choice of color. If your interested I can do that one any color you'd like, but at the custom prices. If you want to talk price some more, pm me an offer, I'm sure we can work something out.
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/03/10/7318c4cf38cc3a3b91d94ec151901a0f.jpg
I just realized that was pre-tacoma, I do have plans for one of those similar in angle to the others with the Toyota imprinted on the tailgate.

That was my idea, these trucks of ours are very personalized and will unfortunately only last so long. I thought this would be a big step up to the random outdated photograph we stumble upon years later at the bottom of some pile of photos.

 

Definitely May I suggest looking at my custom artwork prices first in the 1st post. This is where I lose most people, but I'd be more than happy to accommodate you.

 

Thanks man!


Went to the art supply store today after work. Feel like a kid in the candy store when I go there. probably not interesting to most, but got some new supplies mostly some new watercolor blocks and a couple new colors of paint.

 

Love the feeling of getting new goodies.

 

Very nice work. I've done a lot of animal art in pastels and some plein air pencil. Had a timber wolf pastel hang in capital with Austin pastel society.
Interested in trading? Some of my Iris prints for yours? Sorry to threadjack I'm in no way trying to.