I like drawing attractive dudes, but I really like drawing vehicles. Some of the earliest drawings that I've done were of my father's 1978 Dodge Ramcharger, and when I integrate cars into my story I tend to draw them with entirely too much detail. Even in my early, "Haven't quite figured out this art program" phase where shading and details were non-existent I put a lot of effort into my cars.
Here is the oldest drawing that I still have, a military truck from the WW2 era:
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I had a series in the late 80's/early 90's called 4X4Play that was all about car culture:
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Sometimes I drew vehicles that I fantasized about (my dream car is still a 1949 Mercury):
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Sometimes I just drew something for fun:
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In my more modern era I drew vehicles that I've owned that were described in Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days (the art sucks because I still didn't know how to use Krita):
This was my father teaching me to drive in his 1987 Nissan Pathfinder. I was fifteen years old.
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This was me buying my first car, a clapped-out, rusted up 1978 Trans Am that I named Bertha. The car was a piece of junk, but my God how I loved her.
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Bertha would not be my last Pontiac Firebird. My second car was a 1980 Firebird Formula. This is a pic I drew of it many years ago, and had stuck to my bedroom wall. Fun fact: That blue "frame" is real pinstriping from the actual car:
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And here is that same car drawn many years later for WNHCD:
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The 1988 Cougar I had when I met my first real boyfriend. That boyfriend almost didn't happen after he revealed a huge lie to me the second night we'd met. This image shows me driving away from him in anger:
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The customized '96 Cherokee that I had later on in the story (Note that by now the art is improving):
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And the heavily modified 1988 Thunderbird that I had at the end of Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days. This image depicts me coming out to my father.
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Finding Daecon's way is not about vehicles at all - in fact the shapeshifters generally shun human transportation technology, but still, the story opens with a car chase (Daecon, in his Porsche Boxster 4.0 GTS is being chased by a bunch of homophobic hillbillies in their jacked-up Ram 3500 "Brodozer" truck):
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...which is how Daecon ended up being forced over a cliff. This life-or-death situation resulted in him discovering that he is a shapeshifter (this was actually the very first time I ever drew Daecon. He's changed a lot since then):
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That was it for the vehicles until Dionysius was introduced. His pride and joy was his 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer Limited, which he and Daecon restored to like new condition:
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Later in the story Daecon would have to move the Wagoneer into the Shapeshifter colony. Since Shapeshifters do not use vehicles they don't have roads, which made this a challenge. Thanks to the brains of Arthur they settled on using a helium balloon to airlift it into the colony. Daecon is shown here guiding it in (the balloon is doing most of the lifting, Daecon is steering it)
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So, yeah... I like vehicles!