Would you pay for one of these?

[Nik da Greek]

Right, here goes, please bear with me! I\'ve kindly been given permission by Admin to run this poll so I can gauge interest, if any, before committing to a vendors slot. I\'d appreciate if people would vote honestly here, and don\'t tick a box if you wouldn\'t actually want to go through with the deal!

The thing I do is, draw pictures of things for people! Over the years I\'ve done any number of different things, but lately I\'ve found myself doing pics of peoples cars and bikes and stuff and I started to wonder if there\'s a market for this kinda thing. Everyone\'s seen the Wicked Art caricature things, but what I do is different. The "sitter" provides a photo of their Pride & Joy that they want immortalised, and I draw the vehicle from that. They\'ve been getting some good responses, so I thought I\'d see what you guys thought.

I\'ve included some examples here so you can see what we\'re talkin about. Please bear in mind these are copies of the originals that have then been scanned, so the quality is somewhat reduced from the orignal art, you\'ll have to take my word that they look a lot better than that in the flesh! If you click on the thumbnails, they should come up as a larger picture.

The question basically is; would you commission one of these of your car, bike, bus, jetski, bulldozer, etc, and if so, how much would you be willing to pay? Please do offer your comments as well as voting on the poll, all feedback is gratefully recieved. I\'ve been looking at around £50 a pop, which i think is not bad bearing in mind they each take some hours to do, and the buyer will be getting a totally unique, original piece of art utterly personal to them. This isn\'t some of the shelf RX-7-ish picture, this is a picture of YOUR car taken from your favourite photo. However, if I\'m miles wide of the mark, let me know!

Three examples of what can be done of the same car, in pencil, ink, and line with logo:
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A friends GTR-33 in ink, a fairly rough sketch, and the finished article in pencil;
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Two bikes in pencil for mates, a Francis-Barnett and a Honda SP-2, just to show opposite ends of the spectrum!
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A Corrado VR-6 for a wedding present to its owner;
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My own humble Rx-7 as a quick ink line drawing, to show that stylised finishes can be done, too;
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Two track pictures in pencil, one of the great Freddie Spencer at Jarama, taken from a Motocourse photo, and one of a friends\' GT40 on the owners club trackday at Goodwood;
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Finally, one in colour, Carl Fogarty winning at Brands (hurrah!). Colour would have to be at a higher price than ink or pencil, due to the materials and time involved, but would be possible, if required;
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[Jit]

as much as its against my religion to give Nik da oldman some praise, i must say these are actually very good
I was actually gonna contact you about getting one done of the feed me...until we gave it some jit treatment

[Nik da Greek]

Cheers, dude, nice of you to say so! Tell me you haven\'t done something horrible to your beautiful blue beast? Or were those triple rotor mutterings I kept hearing keeping you awake too much?:Giggle

[Jit]

they were hence Chris now has the blue beast....sort of....its the blue beast minus the bits that make it the beast
Has J asked u to do one of the red smoke machine yet?

[FD3SNuttah]

so did you actually draw these or are they photoshopped?

If you did hand draw then thats some very good work, did you ever send anything to hartbeat? must take you a while?

Id be interested if you did a deal on two or more cars

[Nik da Greek]

"We can\'t promise to return your pictures...." Ha ha, never managed the interstellar fame that would\'ve come from being in Tony Hart\'s Gallery!

They\'re all hand drawn, by me, from photos, as I said. Ther\'s no Photoshop trickery involved. The only alterations have been done by my brother, who kindly scanned them in. He\'s only got an A4 scanner, and the pics are all A3 (oops, should\'ve said that earlier!), so they\'ve been spliced together in PhotoImpact, and cleaned up a bit where the scan was a bit dirty.

I\'d always be willing to do deals for multiple pictures, but I\'d have to take vendor status up first to not break club rules. This is just a poll to see if it\'s worth my while to do that

[Clarky]

What size are the sketches, nice talent you have

[Nik da Greek]

Jit, yeah, I can\'t wait to do the mad Porsche-eating Cosmo! I was waiting for him to email me some photos, but I may be waiting a while, you know what he\'s like! I gues your FEED rocket had some issues, maybe it\'s a good thing to sort it from the inside out

[Nik da Greek]

What size are the sketches, nice talent you have

Cheers, dude! :Thumbs-upThey are on A3 paper, except the colour one which was on art board slightly narrower than A3, but about as long. Look great on a black background in a frame, my mate had his GTR33 hanging in the hall just that way, but now it\'s in his library!

[gmogle]

Jeez mate they are absolutely superb !!!

Really amazing !

[gmogle]

Sorry should have said that I cant vote mate but would be up for one in pencil (£20-30 purely because I need to buy more bits for the car lol).

[Nik da Greek]

Sorry should have said that I cant vote mate but would be up for one in pencil (£20-30 purely because I need to buy more bits for the car lol).

Thank you kindly for the compliments. Dunno why you can\'t vote on the poll, though? Is it one of those members-only things? Bizzarre

Everyone needs to buy more things for their car lol, its the only reason to earn money! :Thumbs-up

[jetpilot]

I wish i could draw like that, praise to you MR Greek.

[Nik da Greek]

Why, thank you, MR Pilot!

Still only two votes, though, so it\'s not looking like people like them enough to actually put hand in pocket. Or is there some problem with it not letting people vote, like gmogle said?

[karl_tate]

i can vote and i must say mate that they are awsome