Not in the
catalogue?
Then it gets drawn.
37 cars have been drawn so far, which means yours probably has not. Send me photographs of it and I will draw it properly: panels, shading, the arch gap, the wheels you actually have on it. Front on, by hand, in the same flat vector style as every car in the catalogue. Then it works like every other model in the shop: your paint, your registration, changed on screen while you watch.
Four stages, no surprises
You can order a commission straight from this page, and you can ask me first. Asking is the safer move, because I cannot promise a slot for a car I have not seen photographs of. Either way you are covered the same: if I cannot take your car on, or the photographs are not good enough to draw from, I refund the whole thing.
Photos and a reg
Three or four shots of the car and the details below. Ten minutes on the drive with a phone is genuinely enough.
The shape, in 2 to 3 days
The car front on, stance and proportion, before any detail goes in. Easiest point to change your mind, and it costs nothing.
Panels and shadows
Twenty to forty hours of drawing. Panels as parts, shading on its own layers, so the paint can change afterwards.
Into the builder
Your car appears in the shop like any other model. Recolour it, plate it, print it again in ten years when the car has gone.
Every timescale on this page is the time before your parcel is handed over. A commissioned print is dispatched within 5 to 7 working days of you approving the drawing, against 2 to 4 working days for a car that is already in the catalogue. Dispatch is the bit I control. The courier has it after that, and their timescale is theirs.
Here’s a real one being built up, every line and every shadow placed by hand.
Drawn front on, in my style
Worth reading before you order, so there are no surprises when the rough lands. A commission is your car drawn the way every car in this shop is drawn. That is the thing being bought, and it is not a render, and it is not your photograph with an effect over it.
Front on, square to the car
The view every model in the catalogue is drawn from, and the one the builder recolours. Your car facing you, level, with your registration on the plate.
Flat vector, drawn by hand
Clean panels, flat colour, and the shading drawn on its own layers so the paint can still change afterwards. The same style as the 37 cars already in the shop, because it is the same hand and the same kind of file.
A clean poster, plain behind it
The car, the title, your plate. No sunset, no blossom, no garage scene behind it. Look at any tile in the catalogue and that is the layout yours arrives in.
Not photographic, and not an AI mock-up
If you have generated something to show me, send it. It tells me what you like and it helps. What comes back is a drawing in my style rather than a copy of that picture.
The angle you can ask about, the style you cannot. Front on is the standard, because it is what the builder recolours and what the whole catalogue is. If you want a three-quarter or something else, say so in the request and I will tell you honestly whether I can do it. Either way it comes back as a flat vector drawing done by hand, which is the only thing I make.
What makes it drawable
The drawing is only as accurate as what it is drawn from, and it is drawn from the front, so that is the shot to get right. This is the difference between a week of back-and-forth and getting it right first time.
Front on, square to the car
Stand back and level with the middle of the bumper. The drawing is a front view, so this is the one it is built from and it matters more than the other three together.
Flat, even light
Overcast is perfect. Direct sun blows out one side and hides the shoulder line, which is the line that makes a car look like itself.
A close-up of the wheels
Spokes, offset and how the arch sits over them. More cars are recognised by their wheels than by their badges.
The paint in daylight
Or better, the paint code off the door shut. Phone screens run warm and a photograph of a colour is not the colour.
Not a three-quarter angle only
A three-quarter looks best on a phone and is the hardest thing to draw a true front from, because it foreshortens the whole face. Send one by all means, but not on its own.
Not someone else’s car
A press photo of the same model gets you a drawing of the same model. The point is that it is yours, down to the wrong wing mirror.
Tell me about the car
Fill this in and it writes the email for you, in the order I need to read it. Attach the photos before you send. What comes back is your car front on, in the flat vector style above.
Attach three or four photos to the email before you send it, see the shot list above. Nothing is sent from this page, and asking is not an order.
You do not have to wait for me. Ordering now puts a A4 print, 21 x 29.7 cm of your car in the basket at £55.99, which is the print price plus £30 for the drawing.
It is drawn front on and in my flat vector style, like every car in the catalogue. Availability may delay it too, so asking first is still the safer move. If I cannot take your car on, or your photographs are not good enough to draw from, I refund the whole thing. A rough comes back in 2 to 3 days and the finished drawing in 7 to 10 days, then it is dispatched within 5 to 7 working days.
Tell me the make and model first, above. Everything else I can ask you for.
Or start with one that’s drawn
If your car, or one close enough to it, is already in the catalogue, you can have it on the wall this week instead.