George Trosley - Trosleys How to Draw Cartoon Cars

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Edit by Bob Wilson

Cover design by George Trosley

Page design by Connie DeFlorin

Layout by Monica Seiberlich

ISBN 978-1-61325-243-7

Item No. CT560

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Trosley, George

Trosleys how to draw cartoon cars / by George Trosley.

pages cm

1. Motor vehicles in art--Technique. 2. Comic books, strips, etc.--Technique. 3. Cartooning--Technique. I. Title. II. Title: How to draw cartoon cars.

NC1764.8.M67T76 2015

741.51--dc23

2014048717

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DEDICATION

To my good buddy Paul Makowski who makes it all happen!

George Trosley began drawing cartoons at the tender age of five. Professional cartooning came 17 years later. After more than 30 years, Trosleys humorous automotive renderings are an illustrated slice of Auto-Americana. Hes recognized as one of the major contributing artists in CARtoons, Hot Rod Cartoons, and CYCLEtoons magazines. However, many other national magazines and newspapers have bought and published Trosleys humorous art including Street Rodder, Car Craft, Popular Hotrodding, Super Chevy as well as commercial clients including Demon Carburetor and Powermaster Performance.

A free-flowing style and right-on appreciation of the human condition is what attracts automobile magazine editors to Georges work. A master at composition and line quality, Troz, as his friends call him, has his finger on the pulse of the car-crazy community in all its rabid devotion and peculiarities. Its most likely due to the fact that George often illustrates his personal passion for automobilia. He can instantly relate whats funny about his own unusual habits, as well as those of other car nuts.

Heres what George has to say about himself and his profession:

Im told I was drawing from the time I could hold a crayon. Mom claimed she could always keep me quiet with a pencil and a piece of paper.

Cars were always a major interest for my brother and me and I drew our dream machines all the time. We built model cars while growing up; I could come up with wild customizing ideas and my brother, Harold, had the patience and body-working talent to turn them into prize-winning creations. Before long we had our drivers licenses and real cars to fool around with. My first car was a 47 Plymouth sedan that leaked a quart of oil a day and smoked two more out the tailpipe. That was followed by a 55 Ford Tudor with a 312-ci T-Bird engine and a severe rake. I lettered Village Vandal on the trunk lid, much to my moms grief. After I graduated from high school I attended the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia and commuted in my recently acquired 39 Ford Deluxe Tudor. I spent the next four years learning about commercial art by day, and the workings of a prewar Ford by night.

After art school, I landed a job in a Philadelphia art studio but in the evenings I worked on some comic pages to send to Petersen Publications CARtoons and... they bought them! Thats all I needed. I quit my big city art studio job, moved into a small apartment, and started selling pages to CARtoons and CYCLEtoons. I eventually created two characters, Krass & Bernie, largely patterned after my brother and me. They chopped, rebuilt, ripped apart, and smoked their tires through the pages of CARtoons for decades... and I loved it! K&B presently does muscle car burnouts in Car Craft magazine and they are still building wild rods!

Trosleys current passion is another really nice 39 Ford Deluxe Tudor that resides in his garage in Pennsylvania and also creating custom art portraits of hot rods, rat rods, trucksanything that moves. Troz also specializes in custom T-shirts, event posters, and logos. Visit Georges website (georgetrosley.com) for more of his zany visual insanity!

End of summer... late Fifties... the sun is going down on another balmy day. Itll be dark soon and Im heading home on my bike. Id sprayed it baby blue, running whitewalls on chrome rims, no fenders. Unlike most of my friends I kept the chain guard on so I could flame it with my model car paint and brushes: traditional style, yellow to orange with cool blue tips. Every evening on my way home Id roll my hot rod bike behind the local gas station where they threw old parts and burned trash in a huge oil drum. Id find voltage regulators, a smoldering distributor cap, sometimes even a carb if I was lucky. Id drag them home and take them apart marveling at the way they worked inside... little springs... contact points... valves and stuff. I had no idea what I was looking at but it all fascinated me. Eventually the smell of fire and gasoline would bring my mother to the top of the cellar steps telling me to take the junk outside.