Car drawings - need advice, please read

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:19 pm

Hi Guys, me and my friend niki had a brianstorm today about making some small money on the side

since i'm an illustrator and im also a design engineer i thought id combine the two to make pin sharp personalised drawings of cars, here below is my car and my friends (bear in mind mine is only half finished)

questions are;

a. would there be any interest?
b. how much should i look to charge?
c. should i base prices on breaking this down into - Hardcopy / Email / CD / Framed?

edit: also i'll do one of duncans car with the livery on to give you an idea of BP cars

cheers guys :thumb:

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:26 pm

Putting my purely objective business head on, I would say that based on your samples the market would be limited.

Unless the level of detail goes way beyond what you can get from a normal illustration or provides something that you cannot get from a photo and editing software I think you're working uphill.

Maybe look to characture or personalise the images with owners favourite or perceived mods?

Best of luck; getting started with this sort of stuff is never easy. I've started several businesses and I'm still looking for that magic ingredient

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:27 pm

[quote="stuart"]Putting my purely objective business head on, I would say that based on your samples the market would be limited.

Unless the level of detail goes way beyond what you can get from a normal illustration or provides something that you cannot get from a photo and editing software I think you're working uphill.

Maybe look to characture or personalise the images with owners favourite or perceived mods?

Best of luck]

cheers for the input Stu :thumb: tbh it was only just to make a couple of quid here and there because i dont have that much time really, if i did there would be some pretty decent ones instead :P not setting out to create a buisness (even though it would be good) just wanted to sort of amuse myself, please others with that style of drawing and make litterally a couple of quid a time

but again thanks for the input :thumb: