{"id":2012132,"date":"2026-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2012132"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:00:00","slug":"an-artist-has-hand-painted-classic-cars-to-look-like-2d-comic-book-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2012132","title":{"rendered":"An artist has hand-painted classic cars to look like 2D comic book sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>An artist called Joshua Vides is presenting his latest art highlighting automotive culture at LA\u2019s Petersen Automotive Museum in a new exhibition entitled \u2018Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides\u201d. Tin, what it says, pretty much, on, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Only this <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> what it says on the tin, because Vides\u2019 art isn&#8217;t really going flat out. Instead, it&#8217;s been made to look like a giant, real-life comic book sketch, and you\u2019ll spend a considerable portion of your day just gawping trying to figure out how he\u2019s done it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>According to the Petersen, Vides \u201cpainstakingly hand-paints crisp black lines onto all-white surfaces to create monochromatic graphic artwork that resembles flat comic book sketches\u201d. So, that\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>For \u2018Flat Out\u2019, Vides apparently spent nine days hand-painting the heck out of the five cars on display, including a delightful old Mercedes, Porsche and Ferrari. Not just the cars, but walls and other bits too, transforming the Armand Hammer (yes, that one) Foundation Gallery into a comic-book style mechanic\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>Want to step inside a real life comic book? The show\u2019s running until July next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist called Joshua Vides is presenting his latest art highlighting automotive culture at LA\u2019s Petersen Automotive Museum in a new exhibition entitled \u2018Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides\u201d. Tin, what it says, pretty much, on, etc. Only this isn\u2019t what it says on the tin, because Vides\u2019 art isn&#8217;t really going flat out. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2012132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}