An artist has hand-painted classic cars to look like 2D comic book sketches

An artist called Joshua Vides is presenting his latest art highlighting automotive culture at LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum in a new exhibition entitled ‘Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides”. Tin, what it says, pretty much, on, etc.

Only this isn’t what it says on the tin, because Vides’ art isn't really going flat out. Instead, it's been made to look like a giant, real-life comic book sketch, and you’ll spend a considerable portion of your day just gawping trying to figure out how he’s done it.

According to the Petersen, Vides “painstakingly hand-paints crisp black lines onto all-white surfaces to create monochromatic graphic artwork that resembles flat comic book sketches”. So, that’ll do it.

For ‘Flat Out’, Vides apparently spent nine days hand-painting the heck out of the five cars on display, including a delightful old Mercedes, Porsche and Ferrari. Not just the cars, but walls and other bits too, transforming the Armand Hammer (yes, that one) Foundation Gallery into a comic-book style mechanic’s garage.

Want to step inside a real life comic book? The show’s running until July next year.