A couple years back I drew a cross section of an anthropomorphic race car. With the eminent release of another anthropomorphic race car movie coming out I thought I’d celebrate by returning to this idea. I drew a more cleaned up version of the race car and also his friend the tow truck:
I’ve also started selling prints in my online shop. I’ll be adding new prints to the shop each week and retiring old prints after a couple months. The prints are printed on nice sturdy archival velvet fine art paper and printed in a lush 7 ink process. They look great up on the wall. Here’s a few close ups of and links to the prints I have so far:
Major Internal Structures of a North American Tow Truck

Major Internal Structures of a North American Race Car







I sorta find these gross Jake. But in the awesome “you’re amazing” sort of way!
I want to get my son the McQueen one but he might not get it.
haha, thanks. My five year old walked into the studio today and his jaw dropped when he saw these. All he said was, “cool.”
I asked my daughter about what she thought of these and she just said “good”. I’d use a word such as awesome, or fantastic, but good will suffice!
This is disturbing on so many levels. And I pretty much love it.
Nice work.
Sick dude
No I mean it…these are a disgusting and disturbing insight to the REAL Jake Parker’s mind.
Gorgeous.. I always liked this concept. The layouts and inclusion of the typographic elements really does it some justice.
Thank you for not putting horrified expressions on their faces. That would have been much more disturbing.
I love it when you show the guts of stuff. And I really like the style and typography of these.
As beautiful as they are rendered, the car/truck cutatways creep me out! I never liked anthropomorphized in-animate objects, even as a kid (I remember as a four-year-old hating the little tugboat from the Golden Books).
Pretty, but creepy. Probably not what you were going for, though…
waaaay t0o much brains in that tow truck
Creepy, but also sheds some light on a few things I had wondered about that movie. Great execution. I like the comparison between these and the one you did previously- great improvements since then.
LOVE this!! it’s genius!
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My girlfriend showed me these and I’m a jeep nut. I can’t wait to see major.
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