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Published: 2007-04-17 17:48:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 8784; Favourites: 171; Downloads: 0
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Piece commissioned by legendary skateboard master, Steve Caballero. Portrait of his Model-A, in a twilight setting.... I was astounded to have the master contact me, and request some artwork! (...and he even swapped me for a piece of his art! COOL!) I began with about 20 thumbnail sketches, and then scanned in the most likely candidate, re-drawing the car in Illustrator, using a variety of reference photos to get details right... the background was inspired by thinking back to days skating behind a friend's house at night... adding mountains and palms, as well as the dragon statue, as an homage to CAB's deck art through the years.Hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it.... it was a labor of love and patience, and I wanted it to be a standout in my portfolio, much as CAB ius a standout human being.
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Damn, thats sick......and ya did that for Cab? WOW! Great work man!
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Thanks, man! Yeah, it was for the one and only CAB....What's great about it, was that it was part of an art trade... So I not only got to create something cool, but now have a piece of HIS work on my wall.... Truly a great guy, and a pleasure to talk with...
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Damn....you got to trade art with a legend.....THAT'S impressive! Good to hear that he was a cool guy as well.
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THE coolest! Great guy, and super down-to-Earth.
And a good artist, too!
BTW-- great to see you on the Friday Art Show, man!
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hell yeah, Cabs great......doesn't he still live in my neck of the woods? I could have sworn I saw that 5-window around... ah, probably someone else. Oh yeah, great to see you as well... dude, that monte carlo looks wicked
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He sold the car a while back... thankfully, it'll probably stay the same!
Thanks again, man!
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Nice 
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Thanks!! ....I still do....
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This looks great! I like your style, its like hand drawn, with the vibrancy and solid colour illustrator provides. Great work! Well shaded, the framing, its all right (and I dont say that often
Anyways wanted to try something like this, but never found the time to do it properly
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Thanks so much for the comment, and for taking time to check it out!
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Beauty, power, manliness and legend all wrapped into one package.
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That Cab's pretty cool too..... oh, hang on....
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So much work so nice result you can be pride of you. Thank you to share this with us.
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Thank you for taking time to look it over, and for the nice comment as well!
My pleasure!
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Love'n that! 
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Lucky you! : )
This picture, though, is just marvelous. Its a true treasure! 
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beautiful car, your work does it justice. What kind of rails does he have it sitting on?
Great work.
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all i can say is bad ass, and its cool that he contacted you for you art. that has to be quite the honor
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This is excellent in every way. And the backstory adds so much to it. It sounds like it was a blast.
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That is so cool, Cab has a sick ride. Great job!
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Wow, Caballero! It's a very nice car. I also like the background and sunset, it fits the coupe....
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Ive seen this car in real life a few times and its one of my favorites. Very nice
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