"I like smiling"

This was me trying out something different than my usual edits. Of course it's of Romain. I think it turned out pretty good! I liked it anyway. Ironically I chose a photo of him where he's not actually smiling..

But hey, he's my boy.

Spanish GP

Post-Spanish GP, where Romain's suspension broke (through no fault of his own) 8 laps into the race :( I was very sad. Although Kimi went on to finish second so it wasn't all bad. I just want Ro to win a race, or get pole, or SOMETHING where he's in front and people can forget about last year..

I believe in you, you can do it.

Funny little Paul di Resta I did last night without really thinking about it. I've never thought about drawing him before and what started out as a doodle just kind of turned into him. I actually think I captured his face pretty well in this one!

To Monaco!

Bahrain GP Weekend

More F1 stuff, I chose these as they're the most recent ones but they're also all very different! The middle Nico one came with one of my favourite quotes of all time:

Bottom line is, even if you see ‘em coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are. You’ll see what I mean.

And it was particularly poignant as he'd just qualifying in pole position.

The bottom one is Romain because.. he's Romain :') <3

Four of the best

Aaand these are some of my favourite edits that I've made lately. Not so much with the drawing. I've been dabbling in more graphic-y stuff, and I've discovered I like pastel shades, simple clean fonts and washed out photos. Who new? Oh, and square format is my new best friend, apparently. I've done a fuckton more of ones like these but it would probably be pointless to put them here. Check them all out at MY AWESOME F1 BLOG :B

Anyway, I love these, and I love making them so that's all that matters, right?

RoGro

Wow, what a day. I've spent a few evenings working on something totally nerdy and fangirly, and last night I finally finished it. I was trying something different - drawing from a photograph, concentrating on greyscale, etc. Pretty pleased with how it turned out.

It's my favourite (and most adorable) F1 driver, Romain Grosjean.

Then I took the liberty of tweeting the Lotus F1 Team about it, and then THEY retweeted it and my Twitter feed exploded:

Everyone was so nice about it and some dude asked me to draw him so now I'm going to do that, and then start work on a Kimi Raikkonen drawing :D Just.. Amazing.