Rough sketch. Looked up reference vehicles, mostly baja cars and rally cars.

Started refining, doodling in some ideas for the driver.

Tried out some colors just to get a sense of where I wanted to go. I promptly decided, this was not where I wanted to go.

Abort mission.

Finished up the vehicle and sketched in the driver.

Added a background flat color to hel me control values, started painting in the car. Added lots of mud and rusted metal textures to give it that worn down look I wanted. All textures are taken from free internet texture resources (like mayang library or cg textures).

Layed down flat colors for driver, experimented a lot with the color scheme to have it match the look of the car.

Gave the driver more of the same treatment I used on the car, textures and painting.

Finished up the driver colors and then added a subtle gradient shadow over most of the girl to better match the lighting on the car. Lighting is still one of my biggest weaknesses.

Finished up by adding a slight gradient to the sky, darkening the cast shadows, and a slight layer of dust to the foreground. I had some good ideas for the background, but by this point I was over this project and decided that if I wasn't gonna do it right, I was better off just not doing it.

 

Thanks for looking!

                             -Aaron