I did this one yesterday - I started a race scene with some TC's and it didn't look good, so I scrapped it. Then thought about the era of the car and because I'm using Raymond Chandler books for my narrative illustration class next semester, I thought of this. Once I set the idea that I like, I just draw and paint. I find visual ref to fit my idea. I have lots of car photos that I've taken. I changed the look of the reference car to lokk more like Steve S's TC.
I've been off school for break and I'm waiting for another batch of DVD covers from the studio - so while I wait, I'm enjoying doing these. The cover work might come in today, that means I'll need to slow down with these. I still want to do a TR3, Big Healey and an E-Type in this Britsh group of cars.