End-of-months are tough for me because I always have to catch up on a ton of member birthday drawings – that’s a perk of being a member, you see, I draw you a car on your birthday (well, birthday month) and sure, maybe it’s a perk we didn’t think through so well, workload- and scale-wise. That’s why it means near the end of the month I end up staying awake until around 3 am, and that also means I don’t get Cold Start written the night before, and here we are, as I hurriedly decide you need to see this amazing old Dodge truck brochure and think if it makes you hungry.
Look at those time stamps! Oy, I’m tired!
Anyway, so, those old 1962 illustrations are fantastic, right? The simple clean lines, the use of outlines only inside the main body of the trucks, I just love it. It’s so clean and graphic. There was also a second illustration style used, one a little more sketchy, with lots of satisfying cross-hatching:
It’s quite different from the other style, and I’m a bit surprised they both co-exist in the same brochure. Also interesting is the color scheme: yellow, red, orange – if it feels oddly familiar, it’s because these tend to be colors of fast food places, because many studies suggest they should make you hungry. Think McDonalds, In-N-Out, Wendy’s, Burger King, and so on. Aside from the obvious associations to ketchup and mustard, I wonder if I believe this?
I mean, maybe? Some other studies seem to show this may be a myth, but I’m not really sure. I guess trust your gut here. Literally.
The D100 had to be pretty ancient at that point, it’s really channeling 1949 styling.
Makes me long a bit for a 68 D100 I brought back from the dead a few years back then sold. I’ll vouch for the accuracy of the brochure’s claims of soft riding springs and ease of entry and exit, it drove great for something with live axles and leaf springs all around, much more car-like than my 98 Ram, although that’s a 3/4 ton with oxcart worthy suspension so maybe not the best comparison.
I’m just seeing red.
That’s me that’s me!
See also: tail light colors. You’re welcome!
So, you are awake and ignoring us all on Discord every night. Thanks for making that clear! 😛
Is that a KITT as the Back to the Future time machine???
I was just about to ask that. Who is this member? I want to be best friends with them.
I was getting IHOP menu vibes even before I read “All Star Performers”. Definitely some convergent graphic design.
Hungry? Nah, looks too much like the color scheme of a 70s rec room sofa. Just makes me want to get wasted. That might make me hungry, though.
Great birthday sketches. If my old car parts expenses ever dip I will have to upgrade my membership to get a Torch original.
Yeah you need to. Jason is an expert and wonderful car sketcher. Have said this elsewhere but I was thoroughly charmed by my drawing of a 70 LTD. Precisely what the family let me drive to high school.For me, the drawing felt alive. I could hear the vacuum system opening the headlight doors.
If memberships increase he may need to alter the perk a little. As he notes it’s a lot of work. He has really hit a sweet spot where he can exercise all his gifts: aesthetics, art history, Gestalt psychology, enjoyment of the nauseating and scatological, and, WTF! Taillights!
I mean, I am hungry while reading this post, but it’s also time for breakfast so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Same here. I could really go for some bacon & eggs…
I went with a cup of oatmeal I found in my desk.
I went with something found in my desk, too. Not sure what it was but I’m not hungry now.
The illustrations of the panel truck and the Town Wagon rear fenders really look like throwbacks to the cars of 40’s.
I can see it. The mayonnaise-colored D100 van and the pickle-and-lettuce-colored trucks. My mouth is salivating at the utility of it all
I still think there should be mega posts of all the birthday drawings… like a monthly roundup post