12/22/2018
And now for something different...
Mrs. Bonner wanted to surprise her husband with a new custom made metal sign to hang by the garage full of his favorite toys:) The idea was simple, yet classic: the words Muscle Car on top, Ranch on the bottom, and a large B in-between the two, which stood for their last name.
Since I don't get fun requests like this one often, I was in the mood to play a bit, so I asked what his very favorite car happens to be (a classic Mustang; something like the fastback model driven by Steve McQueen) and if I could design what I felt like having fun with, no strings attached. If they didn't like it, we'd go back to the original request:)
Today I got this photo with "Thanks agin - he LOVES it!"
..win, win and super nice people.
Now, let me tell you about his design. There is a full sheet in the back (for the background) and another full metal sheet in the font, out of which negative space is cut out, and of course the positive space is left behind. If you'll pull up the 1968 390 fastback in google images, you'll notice that the only way to draw the wheels is to do a whole bunch of shading, however, when it comes to positive and negative space, it doesn't quite work that way, you only get two "colors:" there and not there:) Holy smokes, it took me for ever to figure out how to handle these wheels so that bits and pieces wouldn't simply fall out of the design, LOL.