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Loopydave β Predict your next car!
Published: 2012-03-24 16:00:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 41459; Favourites: 972; Downloads: 1263
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I have a confession to make⦠I'm a sucker for quirky micro cars.While others are welcome to enjoy their sports cars, SUV's, 4x4's or minivans, I like my cars tiny, somewhat underpowered and just a little temperamental.
Recently purchased a 2006 smart fortwo and it amused me that if I applied a logical sequence to the shapes of the cars I have owned over the years, the next one would, in fact, be spherical.
Of course I had to design it and draw up my old carsβ¦.
Pencil sketches - painted in photoshop.
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Wow.. Inspiring design work
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Sure thing... My first beloved car was a '76 Honda Civic. Bluish with black interior. I remember the smallness & front wheel drive seemed so wildly unique and fun back then. One could power around really aggressively and plow through heavy snows around the fish tailing heavy cars. That unique Honda starter sound and motor probably would run forever until I drove into a flash flood sink hole and cracked the transmission. I must have dropped 1-2 feet into the hole that consumed the car. To it's credit though, it crawled right back out of the hole. Sadly, it could no longer go past 35 without coughing after that. Over the years, after a Regal, a Grand Am and others, I'm finally back in a Honda Accord. It's kinda cool to see the renewed attention to the tiny cars again. The revitalized Cooper craze... yours etc.. Fun stuff. Anyways, really nice work. Any special tips on technique?
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My first girlfriends car was a 76 honda civic too!
Here's some step by steps of some of my work if that gives you some tips
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Brilliant, as usual.
Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to you to paint something like this?
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About 15 minutes sketching on paper and about 15 hours painting - I'm really fast with a pencil and quite slow on the painting side.. but then I like my details a lot
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Your future car seems to be an original iMac with wheels. Apple fans rejoice!
Masterful artwork as always.
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Cheers!
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Absolutely spot-on. I was thinking the same thing. A blue & white G3 iMac.
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It was a wonderfully underpowered little car - I used to drive it on the freeway to work sometimes, where the top speed was 62 mph (100kmph) and it would usually get there if the wind wasnt strong and the road was level or slightly downhill. Once got it to 70mph by driving in the slipstream of a large truck, though I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with a weak heart
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Haha. Reminds me of the 98 Mazda I'm driving now.
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haha awesome.
i had a taste for beetle cars at one point.
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They were my favourite cars when I was a little kid - I'm sure the Herbie movies had something to do with that though!
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Yeah.. Herbie, Herbie rides again.. I even had the Herbie comic books.. The racing in a small car & and the sequence when all the bugs, from new to junkers, came to life and congregated fascinated me.
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You can do it all, amazing work! Interesting timeline of your past vehicles, current and the future. It's 2012 no flying cars yet
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Mores the pity right! I want my flying car!!!
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oh and i can also predict some "technical details" for your next car ^^: 1000cc, 8 speed clutchless manual, 0-60 mph - 13 seconds
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moment, moment....how tall are you? 
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lol! 6 feet. Was always a little cramped in the Mightyboy, but surprisingly roomy in the Smart car - plenty of head clearance and leg area.
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The next step looks surprisingly possible....nice!
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Planning to pick one up next year
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jejejeje, tiene toda la pinta de que ese serΓ‘ "lΓ³gicamente" tu prΓ³ximo coche.
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It seemed logical to me
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I like how each car looks "happier" from beginning to end.
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Obviously the future is looking pretty good
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And when you get a flat, you can just roll the car itself!
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THAT'S exactly like my future car!
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In the future did you get the hybrid or fully electrical version
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Fully electric or course!
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Hilarious, as to where it's leading, Dave! Absolutely lovely comic renderings of all the autos, AND the brilliant "Helmet 800" design! Obviously, a Labor of Love here! Fave'd!
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'Helmet 800' - I like it
Cheers man, and thanks for the fave
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" I like my cars tiny, somewhat underpowered and just a little temperamental."
That is a wonderful statement!
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I missed the 'need for speed' gene when they were handing them out I think
Cheers!
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