#car tow

[shotmrmiller]

tow trucker soap who already has your car halfway up the ramp when you're rushing out the door still in your sleeping clothes. a grin spreads across his face as you run up, breathless, trying to explain that you live here, there'd just been no parking spots last night. you frantically point at the resident sticker on your windshield to prove it.

his grin remains unsettingly wide and desperation frustration begins to seep into your voice, insisting that right there on the second floor, that little christmas tree by the window? that's your place. (it's september, you mumble. christmas is around the corner.)

he takes off his beanie, scratching at the buzzed side of his head then tells you to stay put, he's gonna go talk to his manager and see what he can do for you but he's actually calling his bf ghost to tell him of their new addition to the relationship and how pretty she looks when she begs.

(shouldntve told him where you live~)

[kkelsey--spring]

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no.5 of "Racing With The 95: Stage Two"! the rest of the pieces are my fave just sayin (not biased) (my number one is piece#1 for stage two though hehe)

i love reading the little hashtags in your guys' reblogs, it genuinely makes my week :>

[cani-bal]

first batch of cars human designs yes yes idk how i ended up here after saw but yknow.

[ottosbigtop]

Ka cheow

[stickers95]

this is literally THE funniest scene in any of the Cars movies it just takes me out every single time

[yogurtgut]

More. More cars disney pixar more lightning mcqueen. And his bestie, Mater!!

and not that old car mcqueen practice doodles

[favlie]

I wonder what Mater is telling them.

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Human Cars (2006).

[bisexualmcqueen]

wanted to sketch mater i am so sleepy

+frank mischief

[beefycupcakes]

I watched the Cars trilogy recently and with that came a wave of nostalgia and a strange desire to make my own designs for the cars as humans. Aka taking all the charm out of Cars but scratching the brain itch.

So, no need to drag out the intro any longer, I have some notes written out about em for those who might be interested or just bored.

Lightning McQueen:

I tried to make his suit look as professional as possible, with references pulled straight from McQueen's paint job/stickers, while also keeping in mind that I do intend to draw him more so I didn't want to go too crazy with the design. In a perfect world I would've let my maximalist cravings win, but alas let's keep it digestible for my sanity.

I feel like everyone's kinda on this unspoken agreement that McQueen as a human would pretty much look just like Owen Wilson, and that's the big picture here. I used Wilson as inspiration while tweaking and exaggerating a few things to my preference. (Okay, well not everyone, lmao.)

The chevron markings on the front cut off at the side seams not wrapping around the entire suit as to not clash with the sponsor logo on the back.

Also, he's wearing special gloves to help him grip & have control over the steering wheel. I think sometimes that looks a little weird when his sleeves are down & cuffed, but I just feel like he needs to have the gloves there— especially when he comes out of the top half of the suit. (It's also lowkey supposed to mirror his 4 tires when you consider his shoes are also black.)

So yeah, that's basically all I have to to say regarding Lightning McQueen's page. I feel like a lot of my design choices are self explanatory and, honestly probably shared universally... I mean, he's really cut & dry. (But I love him ⚡︎)

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Mater:

I'm not gonna lie, Mater was a bit challenging for me. I definitely had to step out of my comfort zone but I wanted to stay true to the character and not butcher anything.

My first thought was to give him a fishing pole to substitute for the tow hook— but then the more I was thinking about it, the more that felt so... out of place? Radiator Springs is in Arizona, which is (not entirely, but mostly depicted in the movie as) a desert. And even though there are beautiful bodies of water in Arizona, in the movie I don't recall seeing any prominent ones, at least in relation to Mater. So, scratch that, instead I gave him a lasso, which isn't supposed to entirely substitute for the tow truck— no, he still drives a tow truck, but the lasso is so he can grab people/things similarly to Tow Truck Mater (very cartoony). My explanation for this is the cattle ranch. Yeah, Mater is a tow truck driver but perhaps he has a side hustle, or hobby, if you will.

Also, I didn't want to make him... dirty(??) Like, yeah, of course, Mater would obviously get a bit filthy from time to time, it's just in his nature, but that is NOT going to be the core of my design. In regards to the rust happening on him, I felt like instead I would substitute this with being very tan. Again, Arizona is a desert. Because of this, he would take off his shirt often, and this would substitute for the missing hood like on Tow Truck Mater. The removal of the shirt also reveals just how tan Mater actually is.

It's his uniformed overalls that have his original aqua color, but from years of wear & tear they've been patched up with brown patches, this would also reference the rusting. The one strap is supposed to mimic the one headlight being broken, and I know that's a stretch, believe me, I wanted to do something with his eyes but eyes are not the headlights in the Cars universe..... think about this. Think about it really hard... if you know what the headlights are in the Cars universe then this actually makes perfect sense.

He is taller and wider than McQueen, which is a reference to the literal frame of their vehicle counterparts. (A little hard to picture with these images, but eventually I'll draw them together!)

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That's all I have to say really, but do let me know what you guys think! Gas it up and it might encourage me to make a part 2 with some of the other characters! Who would you like to see next? ♡ Thank you so much for reading & have a great day, Kachow!!

[violentlycookingcartoons]

Mini Cars 🚗🚘🚙

BONUS:

[tortoisequeef1999]

can i request a drawing of spongebob and mater interacting if thats okay ^_^

AHH YES!!!!!

i think theyd be good friends who gojellyfishing togethe.....

[justlemoney]

MEMES. *slams desk and runs*

Cars Meme Masterlist

[kaderp]

Ok for context

@chickthiccs and I were coming up with the hc that Mater is actually only half siblings with Mato. Same dad, different moms as the result of an affair. Of course Mater growing up didn't know that, but his 'mom' definitely knew, so she started treating Mater differently from Mato. And it eventually trickled down to Mato, too, and sparked their competitive streak.

Mater gets fed up with everything and runs away to his cousins in the south when he's 13, joins the rust bucket gang in the comics, and gets pseudo-adopted by Sheriff as a teen like in the comics too.

And of course Mater tells Lightning all this kinda lighthearted after the wedding in COTR who's just like 'we've known each other for 15 years and you're just NOW telling me this???'

[sukibon]

i was listening to behind the clouds on loop for like 2 hours, thats when i got the urge to draw mater

[rhombiee]

McQueen and shoulder touches ⚡️

[stickers95]

Got hit with that Art BlockTM, have this old doodle of Mater and Finn (and Lightning lol)