Jason Pohl on the dragon bike sent to clients in Beijing. Then I’ll go into Photoshop or SketchBook Pro, and I’ll start drawing it and adding to it-add color to it real quick. Then, when I get something that I like, I zero in on it and take a picture of that one. Sometimes, it’s half a bike sometimes, it’s just a headlight or a frame. It’s really just quick conceptual sketches, and I just blast out, like, 10 in a row. 2 pencil, the cheaper the better maybe a stick of charcoal if I’m feeling frisky and paper. My background is in painting and drawing, so I start every project with a No.
How would you describe your general approach to design?Ĭomplete chaos, mayhem, not really organized, not really methodical.ĭo you sketch, or do you start everything in the computer? Here, he speaks about motorcycles, art, giant elk skulls, and the exhilaration of making things. They’re long, they’re chrome, they’re bold, and they’re unique.” “And that’s one thing that choppers are: They’re timeless. “I wanted to make something that I could pull out of a garage 30 years from now rip off the cover and be like, ‘It’s still cool,’” he says. Courtesy of OC Choppersįor Pohl, an art-school graduate who began his career as a video game animator, the transition to custom bikes presented itself as an opportunity to make lasting art. OCC’s designs, as Pohl will tell you, get pretty “out there.” One of the company’s most famous bikes, designed for the opening of its Beijing showroom, is wrapped in a 10-foot-long golden dragon with 3D-printed parts.Ī rendering of one of Jason Pohl's projects. The motorcycle manufacturer and lifestyle brand’s custom-built bikes have been featured on the reality show American Chopper and the eponymous CMT show Orange County Choppers. And once client-approved designs are ready for fabrication, Pohl moves on to the CNC programming and machining of the unique, complex components that comprise a one-of-a-kind bike from Orange County Choppers (OCC).Įven if your motorcycle knowledge isn’t all that vast, OCC is likely on your radar. What Pohl does is actually much more elaborate, involving research and development, conceptual sketching, 3D modeling, and photorealistic rendering of design ideas. So, in a way, I get paid to color.” Pohl, if you couldn’t tell, isn’t afraid to have a little fun at his own expense. When people ask Orange County Choppers Lead Designer Jason Pohl what he does for a living, he says: “Well, I draw pictures of motorcycles, and then I color them in.
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