Week 1 Creativity

 These last two weeks have been increasingly hectic for me, and while looking into creativity prompts I found a few that had related to my last creativity prompt. In the last prompt I explored different brushes and drew a variety of shapes and directions of lines to explore how they change with line weight. Unfortunately not my most branched out of the comfort zone idea, I wanted to go in and get into the nitty gritty of line weight.

When looking at older trucks, around the 90's and early 2000's a lot of them sported these complex yet minimalistic shapes and lines across the flank sides. Most popular in the Ford Ranger and the Toyota pickup truck- these designs sparked some inspiration in me, and I wanted to go in my art program and try to recreate them.

While doing research on how to breakdown these shapes, an important process when doing anything automotive, I realized that these patterns fell into a similar category and style as a newer genre of tattoo, called
- which like the trucks, goes for a complex yet minimalistic design using thin shapes and crescents.

  I wanted to replicate these kinds of designs onto a newer vehicle, preferably a truck as the shapes are a lot easier to follow. Using a clip from a friends instagram, I took the truck and used a basic pencil brush to go in and get the thin intricate lines. In some of the versions I included his tag line and brand name to try and get to look more like a racing livery, but in the end the plain, only shapes version, was my favorite. I'll include a few renditions.

Even if you have no interest in cars, trucks, or things of the sort, I highly recommend trying to replicate this style of image, as it helps train you to use a lighter hand when trying to get details, and helps you break down shapes in images or references. Personally this helped me with getting my pressure sensitivity into a more manual setting.