by Nahp Suicide

I came across this truly unique car art while cruising online, and really wanted to share it you. The man responsible, SlAnG 500, owns and operates a car customizing shop in the OC. He’s been building show cars for 15 years, and does “the art stuff on the side.” SlAnG 500 uses nothing but Sharpies to do his artwork, which combines graffiti and tattoo design elements.





“The idea came from a guy in Florida that tried to do something similar a few years ago on a Lambo,” says SlAnG 500, who flipped the idea with his own So Cal graff flavor. His first Sharpie project was a friend’s M3 (pictured) that he’d just finished modifying in his shop. He started work on the front fender, and completed it eight months later.

It ended up being pretty much all pictures mixed with my designs, that’s why it took so long,” says SlAnG 500. “I drew everything freehand – no stencils, no taping, no tracing.” Consequently the project was pretty labor intensive, taking almost 600 hours to complete.

“I wanted to do something that would get my mind off of the shit I was going thru at the time,” says SlAnG 500 of his monumental Sharpie endeavor. “This was the only thing I could do and not think about anything else, due to the amount of work and concentration needed to finish such a huge project.”