Design Feedback & Ideas

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A while back I started a design for the 57 Chevy, which is among my all-time favorite classic cars in the game. Unfortunately I’ve hit a case of painter’s block with it. I’m actually finding the Bel-Air can be tricky to produce a good design since the car by itself has such a great look.

Here’s a B&W work-in-progress of where I’m at right now:

I’m happy with the chrome on the top, tailfins, and trunk - that’s turned out pretty good so far. And I started with some monochrome flames on the front end of the car … but that’s not going so well. Admittedly, I struggle to paint flames very well and I’m reconsidering going that route with the front end of the design. My original thought was also a black and white style but a color design might work with the chrome tailfins and top.

Any thoughts/alternatives for the front end design are welcome and appreciated. I’m sort of stuck at this point, but this design still has some potential to it, so I don’t want to abandon it.

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I’d forget the flames (too fussy) and perhaps echo some of the shape of the tail fins on the front fenders in chrome. Or just keep the front in black.

Or… a set of varying length chrome strips going from the headlight (where you’ve got the flames).

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what about a simple fade of chrome to black?
i.e. put gradient around the front, turned so that the fade is facing front- you could also then cover the bare chrome with a black layer with some transparency (to give the chrome a ‘smoked’ look)

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There’s that piece of trim that runs the length of the car. That could divide the car into a topside and a lowside. Maybe a gradient fade black-to-chrome on the topside and everything below the trim line would stay black. Transition from black to smoked section to full chrome.