A manga-style picture of Rachel the Great.

Rachel Nabors is...

...an award-winning cartoonist, web designer, and artist.

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Car meets fish: my "Black Orchid" smart car design. (Please vote!)

02.15.2010 10:38 PM

"Black Orchid" smart car side


I designed this for the smart car design competition. Please vote for us if you like it!

This design was named for a breed of siamese fighting fish called the "black orchid crown tail". I was also inspired by Mexican skull candy, orchid blossoms, deep sea fish, and Japanese manga artist Junko Mizuno's work. I get a lot of comments from guys about my smart car, so I wanted to make a design that both girls and boys could feel cool driving, something elegant but striking, that you could blast mariachi or the Orb in without clashing with the visual appeal.

I sketched this design on paper, then scanned it into my computer, where I recreated the swirling black details using vector graphics.

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