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Ink, markers and Le Mans: Petrolicious meets Alex Staidle

The artist's hand-drawn race car appears in a special edition of The Petrolicious Post for SEMA in Las Vegas.

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Out of Proportion: Alex Staidle Draws Shopify’s Race Car

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0:46Staidle's route to illustration includes engineering studies, rallying and planting an orchard.
2:00His engineering background helps explain his interest in architectural and mechanical detail.
4:36A binder brings together automotive drawings and humorous slogans.
5:45Drawing lets him stay involved with cars without rallying's substantial time commitment.
8:05The finished race-car illustration shows the ink lines and marker coloring in detail.

Alex Staidle likes mechanical detail, but he would rather feel out a car's proportions than measure them. In Petrolicious's "Out of Proportion: Alex Staidle Draws Shopify's Race Car," that approach meets a particularly patient task: recreating digital camouflage, square by square, by hand.

The profile follows Staidle from engineering studies and rally co-driving into automotive illustration. Drawing gives him another way to stay involved with cars, without rallying's demands on his time. "I felt like cars had character if it's just freehand," he says. A binder of drawings reveals the combination of intricate machinery and humor that has become his subject matter.

This is also a promotional collaboration with Shopify. Staidle illustrates the TDS Racing Oreca LMP2 that Shopify founder Tobi Lütke drove at Le Mans, with the resulting print destined for the company's SEMA booth. Black ink comes first, then marker color. Viewers discuss owning Staidle's originals, recognize a small Honda pickup in his work and suggest another drawing that could become a sticker.

Petrolicious posted the film and a short companion this week. The full profile reached about 17,000 views and is currently the channel's busiest video. Subscribers stayed level, while daily viewing is running below its usual pace. Among nearby motoring channels, George J Saliba had a particularly large week; Evan Shanks was quieter.

Behind the new illustration film, two Jaguar stories remain active: the historically meticulous restorations in "Tom's Cars: Jaguar XKD 522 & XKD 531," and Nic Cuarta's encounter with a Proteus D-Type replica on the Pacific Coast Highway. One preserves individual fasteners; the other puts its occupants close to the noise, exhaust and coastal air.

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What viewers say

Proud to have an Alex Staidle original hanging here. Good stuff man!
@BradDesantisSee it on YouTube
Love the picture of the the little "Honda TN Acty pick up".. All the rage in Britain mid 80's
@stevesurrey1967See it on YouTube
Alex - if you see this, you should do a sticker of the who are you saving it for print.
@millaJSee it on YouTube

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So good! Thanks for sharing this guy's talent. Love petrolicious
@TomazookeSee it on YouTube
Great Artist .. love his work .
Paint your dream car and show us !
@loki7641See it on YouTube
Sincere. Very talented.
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