Bonus Material

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The day The Drive’s website was launched I told myself that I would come back as soon as possible and add a Bonus Material Page. 

I had something very specific in mind: Visual Art that would keep spoilers to a minimum, yet, provide deep inspiration and motivation giving homage to key elements of The Drive. It would also be a way to give back to The Drive readers and supporters.

The first artistic vision I had, was The Scarlet Tactical Glove of Hope and Salvation. 

Basically, if Leonardo DaVinci has God and Man… 

The Drive Mike Lorenz would have The Arbitrator and his Daughter. 

A modern twist on such an uplifting theme. 

On a glorious Sunday morning in August, thanks to our amazing friend Marilou Côté, we were able to capture the image exactly as it had been presented to me.

There was no lighting equipment or special setup involved, no added effect, no photoshopping… Just a perfect moment caught in time and space that was perfectly aligned and balanced in the Astral plane.

From the rich green foliage to the patches of yellow flowers (their deeper meaning is explained in The Drive). From the peaceful and serene color of the blue sky to that unexplainable aura from above, caught naturally, that reminds us:  The Herald brings hope with a touch of the Divine.

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We are very proud to share with you, The Scarlet Tactical Glove of Hope and Salvation.

We believe the moment was blessed and is intended to uplift The Driven.

Many thanks to Marilou and Mandy, the Princess of my Heart.

As Always, stay away from bad, do good, protect your family, and live… by God, Live. 

God Bless.

MikeLorenz

Hint: For optimum viewing, move down to the gallery, right click on the image and select open image in new tab, this will result in the image's optimum framing.

The first artistic vision I had, was The Scarlet Tactical Glove of Hope and Salvation. 

Basically, if Leonardo DaVinci has God and Man… 

The Drive Mike Lorenz would have The Arbitrator and his Daughter. 

A modern twist on such an uplifting theme. 

On a glorious Sunday morning in August, thanks to our amazing friend Marilou Côté, we were able to capture the image exactly as it had been presented to me.

There was no lighting equipment or special setup involved, no added effect, no photoshopping… Just a perfect moment caught in time and space that was perfectly aligned and balanced in the Astral plane.

From the rich green foliage to the patches of yellow flowers (their deeper meaning is explained in The Drive). From the peaceful and serene color of the blue sky to that unexplainable aura from above, caught naturally, that reminds us:  The Herald brings hope with a touch of the Divine.

We are very proud to share with you, The Scarlet Tactical Glove of Hope and Salvation.

We believe the moment was blessed and is intended to uplift The Driven.

Many thanks to Marilou and Mandy, the Princess of my Heart.

As Always, stay away from bad, do good, protect your family, and live… by God, Live. 

God Bless.

MikeLorenz

Hint: For optimum viewing, move down to the gallery, right click on the image and select open image in new tab, this will result in the image's optimum framing.

Following my first artistic vision of The Scarlet Tactical Glove of Hope and Salvation, I knew it would be time to combine my legacy heritage and my passion for manual builds. 

Long story short, I come form a long line of Engineers that like to hone their metal working skills in their off time. This is how the project that would keep me busy for my August vacation was born.  

After The Scarlet Tactical Glove of Hope and Salvation, I noticed that simply framing the image with The Drive’s thematic fonts and colors would yield something that looks strangely like an official Super-Hero trading card.

This motivated me to press on and move onto this next project, where I could give homage to one of the most colorful and epic symbols of The Drive… but also, to my ‘metallwerke’ legacy heritage, and also, to my two blood lines. 

A few years back, I had researched ancient European Crusade symbology. The documentation is scarce and quite limited.  But still, you find that Blue was intimately linked to BOTH German and French noble crusaders, and that Gold represented a special elite class among this nobility. I found that to be utterly fascinating.

Many segments of The Drive came to me as Dreams and Visions (read The Drive to learn more about the Astral Plane) this why the operatives in The Drive are much more Legendary than what my simple mind could have ever imagined. And I wanted the visual art section to give homage to these Epic Legends.

Objectives: Make the Build look legendary strong. Make the Azure Blue color pop. Make the Gold color sober. Make the final polish noble, yet credible. 

Added bonus: Find a stance, background and framing that highlight the symbolic (and literal) strength of this Legendary colorful build.

Blessings: Yellow dandelion flowers, just the right amount of sunshine and white clouds to make the colors pop out even more.

Result: Legendary.

Hope you enjoy.

Added bonus, if you're like me, you can appreciate the impact and additional dimensions that colors can bring...  Yet there is something about the purity of a bare-metal build.  So we added the first visual test we did when the build was fresh out of the assembly forge.

We don't know about you, but we could lose ourselves in both versions for hours.  Having read the book, my wife told me she likes to visualize the pristine colored version as what was taken into battle...  And the bare metal version as what actually came back.  One would think my wife appreciated the magnitude of the Epic confrontation at the conclusion of The Drive's Chapter 12.

Many thanks to all of you for your support and as always, a special thanks to Mandy, the Princess of my Heart.

As Always, stay away from bad, do good, protect your family, and live… by God, Live. 

God Bless.

MikeLorenz

Hint: For optimum viewing, move down to the gallery, right click on the image and select open image in new tab, this will result in the image's optimum framing.