Art work opinions, stuck at home

Hello everyone, 

In a recent turn of events, after having trouble working full time since hurting my back, I have been starting to do illustrations for fun. Im going to make a bunch of posters to put on my wall of only Porsches in architecturally significant places. My question is, in your opinion, if you were to hang this on your wall do you like the poster with, or without the title text at the bottom?

Thanks for any input! I appreciate it :) EDIT EDIT EDIT. I took all the originals down since they didnt have water marks. I kept getting wise advice to do so. Also, the popular opinion was this colorway, so this is basically a place holder for the posters Im creating. 

It seems there is some interest in liking these, so I will keep updating this post with one each time I create it. I will do custom images as well, if you have a different car you want in the scene. Feel free to reach me at strobel.john@gmail.com if youre interested. Thanks everyone!

Those are really cool, nice work!

Graphically my favorite is the one in the middle, but the bottom one has a good mid-century vibe in those colors.

The title text is kind of dying on the vine. I would make it the dark grey if you're leaving it that size, or white but make it bigger and stretch it the full width of the image.  Spread the kerning out for that vintage look.

Nice Mies reference, by the way. Next do Villa Savoie with a Traction Avant.

In reply to Duke :

Thank you! After staring at it with my coffee, I think Im going to skip the text all together. I have a few with other colors as well, Im trying for that Mid Century look. The grey scale version is just to highlight that red leather interior. I appreciate your feedback. My wife told me I should put them on Etsy and see what happens. 16x20...something to think about I suppose

The colors in your second post are perfect. Of the two, I prefer the top image but the bottom one would stand out better in almost every situation. 

JStrobel80 said:

 

i'd wear that on a t-shirt

I like the bottom most because of the added colors

Hmm...perhaps I should listen to my wife. Building off David Wallens post yesterday about side hustles, maybe I will make a series of them, and put them on Etsy. AngryCorvair, maybe even a shirt :)

hell yeah!

In reply to JStrobel80 :

YES! The bottom revised one is where it's at. In my original post I was going to suggest a duotone in that mustard yellow instead of the pink and green, but I like the pea green a lot.

Perfect thank you for the help! I think Im going to settle on the pea green/yellow and grey scale. As for the next one, Im currently working on Rothmans 959 parked in front of the Pyramids :)

You do a 914-6 I'd be interested for a Christmas gift.

I'm trying to decide if I like the different levels of detail between the car and building or not.  To me it appears The building has the most detail / definition of anything in the schene.  It could just be because it's so rectilinear.  I know that model Porsche is not very full of definition and adding substantial shadding would kinda ruin the simple color scheme. I think that's what makes me see the building as more detailed.  It appears at least to be made of multiple colors for it's body with more then 1 shadow color (again appears you may have only used 1 shadow color and 1 body color) and the car is just a single blue shape.  

I like them though.  You have talent for sure.  If you're going to sell them you probably want to watermark what you post.   Not that anyone here will do anything with it but it's the internet.  

Also ditch the front plate black box.  It's not necessary.  If you keep it add text of the car type so the plate number is 550 or 356 or whatever model is being drawn.

Do mine next please.

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Id be happy to do that! If you have a picture of a particular one, or just any 914-6 let me know and we can work something out :)

In reply to nocones :

Thank you for your response and advice about a watermark, I hadn't thought about it. As for the black box on the front, that's unfortunately a pretty critical part of the car. This is in fact 356 number 1 made in 1948. There are letters that go on the black plate, I just haven't put them on there yet, I think it will look better once I do that. I hadn't considered selling them, but it seems there is a little interest, so I may give it a whirl and see what happens. Ill watermark from here on out, thanks again!

In reply to JStrobel80 :

Honestly, the only real external difference is badging and 5-lug wheels.  Could show the 5-lug with Fuchs wheels though?

In reply to Mr_Asa

Absolutely, I can add any kind of detail you want. Feel free to email me strobel.john@gmail.com so I dont keep clogging up the forum personal responses (I hope thats allowed to post my email, I apologize if its not and Ill take it down)

JStrobel80 said:

Hmm...perhaps I should listen to my wife. Building off Davis Wallens post yesterday about side hustles, maybe I will make a series of them, and put them on Etsy. AngryCorvair, maybe even a shirt :)

If you do I will definitely buy a copy of this one and your upcoming 959 pyramid one. And probably others in the series.

Wow. All those look amazing. Definitely no text. But depending on where you put them/what's around them the color choice would change.

In reply to Schmidlap :

Wow...thats amazing, beyond anything I would have ever expected. I reallly appreciate the support. If its allowed, when I get this 959 done, Ill post a link when I get an Etsy store set up...or if people on here would like, feel free to email me and I could just work with you personally and ship them out and skip the middle man. Thanks guys

Toyman01 + Sized and said:

The colors in your second post are perfect. Of the two, I prefer the top image but the bottom one would stand out better in almost every situation. 

 

 

What Toyman said.

In reply to iansane :

For sure. I think for this 356-01, it would be a choice of 4 images with different Mid Century colors or Grey Scale. The 959 would be just that...not really any color choices there haha. I have a ton of ideas so there will be plenty to choose from :)

Just to be safe you may want to pull the images down that you've posted in the thread, watermark them, and then repost. 

how are you going to print them ?  what material ?

Esty would work , but also Pelican Parts Forum , there are other guys selling artwork there.....

In reply to californiamilleghia :

I had no idea there was such a thing on Pelican. Ill take a look. I will have them printed localy on heavy/quality poster paper with a little tooth to the paper