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SPEED RACER!
Here he comes with Racer X taking the lead!! But Speed Racer has plans of his own with the saw blades to cut straight to 1st place!!

This was a class assignment for my inking class. The goal was to draw and ink a wheeled vehicle and its driver. Optionally we could add more vehicles and drivers to the image.... Immediately I knew I wanted to do Speed Racer for this project.

This is the RAW scan, no adjustments were made to the levels.
300dpi scan
original image is on 11x17 Smooth Bristol
Inked with various Micron Pens, Prismacolor Pens, Repedograph technical pen and 02 brush with speedball black ink.

This was on display outside in the Phoenix Sun in a glass case. The original image as begun to yellow and some of the bleedproof white I used to clean up my lines has cracked due to the dryness as well.

This image was alot of fun to draw and find resource pictures and videos for.

Racer X was a late addition to help balance the image. In the original planning I wanted to fit two drivers in the composition and I had wanted to fit Trixie and Speed in this image. In the end I felt it made more sense to include Racer X and his Shooting Star (although in reviewing the image the teacher did express that the image could have used Trixie next to Speed. Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought of this )

Full color coming soon

Speed Racer and all characters and vehicles are © Tatsuo Yoshida, Warner Brothers
(It's respective Japanese and American creators and owners)

Description
SPEED RACER!
Here he comes with Racer X taking the lead!! But Speed Racer has plans of his own with the saw blades to cut straight to 1st place!!

This was a class assignment for my inking class. The goal was to draw and ink a wheeled vehicle and its driver. Optionally we could add more vehicles and drivers to the image.... Immediately I knew I wanted to do Speed Racer for this project.

This is the RAW scan, no adjustments were made to the levels.
300dpi scan
original image is on 11x17 Smooth Bristol
Inked with various Micron Pens, Prismacolor Pens, Repedograph technical pen and 02 brush with speedball black ink.

This was on display outside in the Phoenix Sun in a glass case. The original image as begun to yellow and some of the bleedproof white I used to clean up my lines has cracked due to the dryness as well.

This image was alot of fun to draw and find resource pictures and videos for.

Racer X was a late addition to help balance the image. In the original planning I wanted to fit two drivers in the composition and I had wanted to fit Trixie and Speed in this image. In the end I felt it made more sense to include Racer X and his Shooting Star (although in reviewing the image the teacher did express that the image could have used Trixie next to Speed. Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought of this )

Full color coming soon

Speed Racer and all characters and vehicles are © Tatsuo Yoshida, Warner Brothers
(It's respective Japanese and American creators and owners)