That's a couple really great points Jason.
I started out doing this for the same reason. I was totally fascinated by the artists/designers that have been doing this for decades and measured my work against theirs to see what I needed to work on. It was magazines that provided visibility of this niche within the automotive industry.
Often times, a plan of attack or vision is one of the hardest parts of a build project. Even if you imitate aspects of several different vehicles, it's sometimes difficult for folks to integrate these concepts into one design, even though they may have been pioneered by someone else. What "Sketchpad" features sometimes do is, not necessarily provide a "Copy/Paste" idea for you to build but rather a starting point for you to create an evolution of that concept perhaps. Who knows where it could lead from there.
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