Not in the
catalogue?
Then it gets drawn.
15 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. 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
Stance, proportion and angle, 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. Evri handle it after that, and their timescale is theirs.
Here’s a real one being built up, every line and every shadow placed by hand.
What makes it drawable
The drawing is only as accurate as what it is drawn from. This is the difference between a week of back-and-forth and getting it right first time.
Side on, square to the car
Stand back and level with the middle of the car. This is the one the whole drawing is built from, so 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 front three-quarter looks best on a phone and is the hardest thing to draw a true profile from. 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.
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.
Availability may delay it, 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.