aahhhg heres a warmup sketch. anyone else draw then end up losing track of time and getting really angry at yourself ?

im at lightbox 2024! (don’t have a table, just walking around 😭) and i left something behind on one of the procreate ipads >:)

post-crash stressful press conference (f1 oc)

i wanted to draw something homosexual

postcard from roland garros

this is an original character that means a lot to me :,) i created him when i was 16 and since then he has come to represent a lot of the uncertainties of young adulthood.

i love drawing original characters haha relatable

randomly got into watches this weekend! here’s some fake watch ads ft. my f1 ocs :)

more oc art ! ahhh! come and get it!

a moodboard of sorts!!

i have spent the last 2-3 weeks writing a short story about these two fictional characters, 37-yr old Maltese driver Nino Schembri and 38-yr old half-Italian driver Rory Utley, who were teammates and rivals at Red Bull from 2009-2016. Rory is a three-time World Champion whereas Nino only has one. Nino retired in 2019 to drive in the WEC, and would eventually become teammates with Santana Marsh in 2021 where they would win the LMP2 Class Trophy as well as the 92e 24 Heures du Mans LMP2 Class Winner. After such a successful season, Nino endorsed Santana to the Scuderia Ferrari F1 team which was one of the main reasons Santana received a seat in 2024.

Nino and Rory have not spoken to each other since 2015. Rory definitely sees Santana as a proxy of Nino.

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I think the main reason why this story came to be is that I wanted to build on Santana and Logan's stories and so I started thinking about their mentors and the drivers that came earlier. The great thing about sports is that you can make very organized timelines, and oftentimes the relationships between people can be correlated with the raw data and points. I also think there have been some interesting teammate moments this season (Lando and Oscar.. especially after last race) and so it really seems like tensions are inevitable in this sport!

I really don't know if I'll publish the full story because I'm not confident it'll come together, but I already have over 10,000 words. usually with these stories i just show them to one close friend and then I move on LOL

some oc warmups that genuinely turned into psychological torture

LOLL i totally get it.. cars was one of the main reasons i got into motorsports so it might have seeped into my design choices!

ok but santana was born on july 5, 1996 (happy late 28th bday ??) so he was about ten when the first cars movie came out and was already karting. so it's probably canon that he was a HUGE lightning McQueen fan.

he probably had the crocs and everything

this year i will be joining art fight 2024 on team seafoam!

i'll try my best to counterattack every drawing i get, so let's have fun drawing together :)

i’m pretty much through with developing these specific characters (most of the story came about when i was 15-17) but I still love their designs and I certainly wrote some interesting stories about them so I wanted to share it?? lol??

Below the cut is an excerpt from one of these stories, set during the aftermath of the main story, so it might not make much sense. (tw for some described gore and depression.)

i miss summer when it wasn’t a deadly heat wave 🏖️