Going for a more vintage feel with the next cartoon illustration, I created this character design of a vintage rockabilly girl mechanic set over a tattoo style rose background, originally created as a pencil drawing and finished in in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Adding some half tone patterns to the shading gives it a more retro pulp / pop art look but it also helps when printing. I’m using the design for t-shirts and direct to garment printing and gradients don’t seem to do as well as half toning when shading or blending colours.
To complete the retro vibe, this bad-ass mechanic babe is drawn in a comic, pop art style with plenty of attitude inspired by hot rods, motorcycles, 1950s rock and roll and old school tattoo design.
If you like this awesome Vintage Rockabilly Girl Illustration get it as a birthday gift for your girlfriend, boyfriend, sister or brother who love anything rockabilly, vintage or hot rod, it’s available on a bunch of products here on my Redbubble store.
Cartoon artist creating original illustrations and fan art from comics to movies