This piece is a little different than my usual stuff. It's the beginning of a wallpaper I'm making for my little sister. She just got a computer as a birthday/graduation gift and it needs wallpaper, and she asked that I make her something with KITT from Knight Rider on it. Unfortunately, quality pictures of KITT are hard to find, leaving me with only two options: give up, tell her "too bad," and let her keep using the fish wallpaper that came with Windows or make my own image of KITT. Well, I obviously went with the second option. I couldn’t let my let my sister down or resist the challenge.

I began this image by tracing a medium resolution photo of a car that looked a lot like KITT in Illustrator. As I went, I got more adventurous and stopped trying to make an exact duplicate with vectors. At one point, I intended to use gradients and meshes, but when I got to the end without them and liked what I had, I decided not to.

Let me know what you think. Suggestions before I move on to making the wallpaper would be nice.

Disclaimer: I did not create KITT, just this picture of him.