'51 Ford illustration

This is not a photo

What you see here is the result of many many sessions, over a 3 month period, of creating shape after shape in Adobe Illustrator. The image source for this is a photo I took at a small car show years ago.

Also decided to take some of the slogans, used in an original Ford ad (See below), to create an original ad. I used illustrator to outline the '51 Ford logo, so I could have a vectorized version to resize to whatever I choose.

You can find the original illustration (Not this ad) for sale at my fine art store on Imagekind.

Final illustration, with vintage Ford slogans and logo added. Copy right 2017

Vintage Ford ad. NOT CREATED BY ME

Why did I do this?

I did this because of U-haul. For years I had seen some really nice illustrations on the side of U-haul trucks. Then I saw this one:

Uhaul ad, NOT created by me. Very cool

These impressed me for their quality and unique style. I find these incredibly eye catching. Whoever is over marketing at U-haul – two huge thumbs up! Having an artist to utilize Illustrator (Assuming) to create illustrations with a unique style and look, is smart in my opinion.

After seeing this, and others, I decided I wanted to create my own high quality illustration using vectors. After much deliberation I decided I wanted my first professional illustration to be based on a photo I've personally taken, and I wanted chrome, lots of shiny chrome. (Not the browser)

Several years ago I went to a small car show behind the Litza's Pizza restaurant in West Valley City. Took a ton of photos. Years later I came across this photo and knew this was the one.

Details

Below are some detail shots of the illustration.

Below is a screen grab of the illustration in progress. This was a absolutely a paint-by-numbers illustration, but the results are beautiful. It took a ton of time, but was totally worth the effort