In this article by Kerry Peterson, we welcome our old friend Norm Grabowski to town. Motorburg’s own Charlie Smith and Norm go back many years and C. Smith is responsible for Norm’s well known caricature logo seen at right. In what will be many episodes to follow, come on in as Kerry tests your knowledge about the “legend himself” and then brings us up to date on some of the latest “Norm News” and happenings from his past.
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In this Motorburg PhotoShop tutorial, Keith “RunawayChair” Towler will demonstrate how to slice a photograph into layers, how to draw paths to use like masking-tape and how to repaint the photo’s parts and reassemble the layers to make a wild new design. You’ll follow along as he turns a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado into a bubble-top Jet Car… like something you might see on a Jetson’s cartoon.
See it all “start to finish” here…

Motorburg takes a peek between the covers of Jim Schild’s Motorbooks title, the Collector’s Originality Guide: Challenger and Barracuda 1970-1974, and Associate Artist Brian Stupski of Problem Child Kustoms deems it a worthy addition to any designer’s reference library…
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Looking at design and inspiration as found in movie posters. Motorburg Associate Artist Brian Stupski takes us on a whirlwind tour of the art that first appealed to him, and looks at how automotive artists can use similar techniques to bring new life into their work. Working from style and color to the films themselves, Brian offers some interesting ways to overcome creative block, and who knows, perhaps even help round out your personal DVD collection…
Continue reading ‘Going to the Movies’ here…

In the sixties, asymmetrical design began to take hold of the custom car and show rod world, and the results were often shocking, yet pleasing to the eye when done just right. Motorburg Associate Artist Brian Stupski takes a look at the new Nissan Cube from this “slant” and offers up a tasty modern version of Roth’s lilliputian Surfite, and then spins the whole thing on its head with some So-Cal VW influence for those so-inclined…
Thinking outside of the boxy car here…

Learn the fine art of using brushes and 3D effects in Illustrator while creating a three-color t-shirt design. Follow along as Ger “Dutch Courage” Peters teaches you brush basics and manipulation, and how to use the 3D tools in Adobe Illustrator to give your digital work a hand-inked look…
The complete tutorial is right this way…