Name: Podspeed Ep. 41: Artist Jon Sibal
Uploaded: 2021-05-17T16:13:51.907373+00:00
Duration: 7077 s
Channel: GTChannel
Description: Visual and graphic artist Jon Sibal is a first-call artist when it comes to rendering custom car projects for clients. Jon’s ability to pull inspiration from all corners of the automotive universe gives him a signature style, but it was his love of comic books that led him to art. Podspeed catches up with Sibal to discuss cars, superheroes, and how he turned passion into a career.

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Visual and graphic artist Jon Sibal is a first-call artist when it comes to rendering custom car projects for clients. Jon’s ability to pull inspiration from all corners of the automotive universe gives him a signature style, but it was his love of comic books that led him to art. Podspeed catches up with Sibal to discuss cars, superheroes, and how he turned passion into a career.

<p>Visual and graphic artist Jon Sibal is a first-call artist when it comes to rendering custom car projects for clients. Jon’s ability to pull inspiration from all corners of the automotive universe gives him a signature style, but it was his love of comic books that led him to art. Podspeed catches up with Sibal to discuss cars, superheroes, and how he turned passion into a career.</p>

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Artist Jon Sibal embodies the idea of following your passions into a livelihood. As a kid in the Philippines, Sibal would draw images from favorite TV animation and characters. Eventually finding it hard to communicate his design ideas to body shops, he took up Photoshop to convey specific ideas about how to modify his BMW, and a career was born.

How Job Sibal Turned Cars And Art Into A Career

Japan’s Option magazine sent Sibal deep into the Honda rabbit hole, and eventually led him to BMWs and Euro tuning brands like the factory-clean lines of AC Schnitzer, and the more aggressive touring-car style of Hamann.

JDM, Euro Tuning, Option Magazine: Inspirations For Jon Sibal's Auto Art

When it comes to concept designs and renderings, Jon Sibal tries to focus on a theme — a street-tuned car, a race car, or a motorsports-inspired street car, for example — and get as much detail from the builder and client as possible, especially as designs need to be rendered in 3D today.

Artist Jon Sibal Reveals His Process For Car Renderings

Among the hundreds of builds and designs Jon Sibal has lent his touch, his Dodge Challenger project remains a personal favorite. Having won the car almost on a whim, he toned down the car’s brash hot-rod style into something between Japan’s touge and deep Detroit muscle.

How Jon Sibal Fused Japan and Detroit In Dodge Challenger Build

Scion’s annual tuner challenge in the late aughts helped boost Jon Sibal’s career, first when turning out renderings for friends, and then when finally leading his own projects.

How Scion's Tuner Challenge Pushed Designers And Builders

Jon Sibal says artists can cheat a lot, indulge their imaginations on car designs that don’t add any performance or function in real-life. Working on past Scion Tuner Challenges has given Sibal a new respect for car builders and engineers.

Design And Tuning Competitions Forge New Respect For Builders, Engineers

Like many observers, Jon Sibal’s first impressions of the new Proto Z weren’t especially warm. The big gaping front end made the car feel unfinished. But Sibal admits he felt same way about the new Supra, and after trying out some renderings of the new Z, he thinks it has a lot of potential.

Jon Sibal: Why You Can’t Always Trust First Impressions

Jon Sibal worked up some renderings for Formula D driver Dai Yoshihara’s Mercedes 190E project, but also went so far as to create a custom wheel design that Titan7 wheels manufactured. The one-off wheel took cues from the 190’s German touring car racing theme.

From Rendering To Custom Wheels: Jon Sibal On Dai’s 190E Project

Anytime a new car comes out, Jon Sibal immediately wonders: what can we do with this? Does this car have potential? Turns out, almost every car has potential, especially one like the new Subaru BRZ. But it has to fall in Sibal’s wheelhouse for him to truly see the possibilities.

Jon Sibal: New Cars With Best Custom Design Potential

Jon Sibal started like many artists, drawing the objects around him: trees, houses, and finally cars. The Jaguar E-Type was the first car to make an impression, and it still makes his Top 5 today, along with icons like the Ferrari F40 and E30 BMW.

Artist’s Path From Portraits And Comics To Cars

From the team-oriented approach to drawing comic panels and pages, to the fine weight of pencils, Jon Sibal’s roots and knowledge of comic book art are deep. He also tells us which superhero is his favorite to draw.

Jon Sibal Explains The Finer Details Of Comic Book Art

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