Childhood (the Forest Car)

Client: Personal Project
Description: Several weeks ago, I had a friend mention an illustration contest where you had to draw a picture that you thought represented "childhood." For some reason, the first thing that sprang into my mind was a group of old rusted out cars that were in a small woods, out passed a dead-end road near my childhood house. As you might imagine, it was very off-limits to go play on or by these rusted old cars, but occasionally, we'd sneak off and take a look at them anyhow.

I'm pretty sure that I've since missed the contest, but I thought I'd put the image to paper. Needless to say, that kid doesn't look like me, and there were never fairy lights hanging from the surrounding pine trees... but still.