Baby you can drive my car

Or

"Maybe not"

A quick little piece I worked on last year. And with it here comes a little piece of OC lore.

There's only two people in The Worndown Children who know how to drive. The first one is obviously RJ. The usual and official designated driver for the band and owner of the van.

The second one is actually Zara. And here you can see some of her unique style of driven that originally led the band to designate RJ as their official driver.

Zara isn't necessarily a bad driver. But she tends to drive as if she were in a Jason Statham movie or something. Yet she's only been in one car accident her whole life. And it was a small one.

Have you ever noticed that RJ's van has some of it's doors and the hood in a different color. Well it's because he had to replace them. Yet funny enough these weren't Zara's fault. It was RJ's ex. But that's a story for another day.

Speaking of the van. In this piece you can notice that this time it was drawn without using a specific reference. I've done it like that in a number of occasions. Though I usually seek to use a reference of some kind.

I've used photos I've taken of real life cars around my town, 3d models I've bought and even toy cars. That's why the Van model can change from piece to piece. That's also on purpose because I think it's kind of funny. I actually made up a logo so it's not clear wich brand the car is.

Having vehicles and other stuff surrounding your characters look accurate helps ground the characters and the style.

But sometimes, like with this piece you don't look for a grounded feel but something more cartoony and animated. That's why I did it from memory for this one. (At least that's why I tried)

I'm not sure what would be the in-universe story for this piece. I think they maybe had to go somewhere nearby and thought. "It's a 5 minute ride, there's no way she'd go "rampage mode" for that". And they were wrong.

Also, while posting this just now I noticed it could make a kind of sweet wall paper.