Eric Brockmeyer Designs

摘要

When Eric Brockmeyer was a kid, he would spend every dollar he saved on Hot Wheels and model cars. He would draw these cars and change them to how he would've liked them. At that time, he didn't know he could make a career of it. As he got older, he looked into how he could turn his talent into a paying job. He aimed to become a designer for one of the big domestic car companies. He went to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose guest speakers told students about their job. One of the guests was a designer for GM who described how he spent months designing the side-view mirror for a Chevy Cavalier. This didn't appeal to Eric, so he looked elsewhere for work after school. He got a job in the design department of a boat manufacturing company, which was closer to what he wanted to do. He started drawing cars on the side, and the requested volume of drawings quickly forced him to choose between the boat job and hot rod rendering. He got the chance to work with Boyd Coddington and other high-end builders who really boosted his resume, and gave him enough work to get started on his own. Eric's work starts with a photo and a list of likes and dislikes. Many people are married to ideas before the pencil hits the paper, so it's important for Eric to know what those ideas are. Just as important to note are a client's dislikes; if someone hates stripes, there's no use drawing five versions of the car with stripes on them. Like many of the other guys out there, Eric starts with a drawing on paper to get an idea of what the car will look like, then scans it into the computer for fine-tuning and additional changes.