Welcome to This Week on Trading Paints, the pulse on what’s happening in the Trading Paints world.
🧑🎨 Jason Dakins in the Spotlight
For this month’s Artist Spotlight, we caught up with Jason Dakins, a highly active painter in the community. Jason sharpened his skills through sim racing, developing into a career designing for iconic teams in both sports cars and now oval racing.
🎨 Gradients, custom fonts, and curved lines in Paint Builder
Curved Lines and gradients are now part of Paint Builder.
We released a new update to Paint Builder Monday featuring some exciting new abilities for everybody’s favorite livery-design web app. You can now upload custom fonts to use your projects, draw with the new Curved Line tool (it’s easier to pick up than Photoshop’s Pen Tool, to be honest), and apply gradients to your layers and outlines.
Check out our release notes for some demos and complete list of improvements.
🏁 ICYMI: Official DTM paints are here!
As part of the new iRacing DTM Series that kicked off last week, DTM has posted their entire 24-car grid of 2025 liveries to the Trading Paints Showroom.
Check out the DTM Official account to race your favorites.
✨ New Verified Official Paints
Take a look at some of the newest official paints to land in the Showroom, verified on behalf of real-world teams and artists.
Official 2026 AO Racing IMSA GTD Pro #77 Sketchy (Rexy) GT3 Rawr Laguna Seca Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) from Patryk A. on behalf of AO RacingOFFICIAL Pfaff Motorsports 2026 Lithia Driveway 80th Anniversary Lamborghini Temerario GT3 IMSA GTD PRO from Jason Dakins for Pfaff Motorsports2026 Denny Hamlin King’s Hawaiian Toyota Camry from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing2026 Christopher Bell Rheem Talladega Camry from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing2026 William Sawalich Starkey O’Reilly Toyota Supra from Brantley Roden on behalf of Joe Gibbs Racing2026 Sammy Smith O’Reilly Auto Parts Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Connor Zilisch Jockey 150 Years Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR Motorsports2026 Shane Van Gisbergen Kubota Tractors Chevrolet from Ryan A Williams for JR MotorsportsOFFICIAL #66 Foxxtecca x MBM Motorsports Dystany Spurlock ARCA Menards Chevrolet SS from Jason Dakins for MBM MotorsportsOFFICIAL #45 Alpha Prime Racing x Foxxtecca Lavar Scott Xfinity Series Camaro (2025) from Jason Dakins for Alpha Prime Racing
Teams, drivers, brands, and artists: want to give the verification mark to your official paints on Trading Paints? Let us know!
🏎️ Staff Picks
The Trading Paints team sees a lot of paints every week! Here are just a few of our favoriterihit now.
We’re really enjoying what you’ve been sharing in the new Number Showroom, part of the new Number Builder update. Here are a few recent numbers that caught our eye.
📢 Community Shoutout: Carson Hocevar & Spire Motorsports
We’d like to congratulate Carson Hocevar and our friends at Spire Motorsports for their victory at Talladega Superspeedway in the NASCAR Cup Series Sunday. Carson is a longtime active Trading Paints member (who’s known to take over the Trending page thanks to his streams) and Spire Motorsports was one of the first teams to share their verified official paints on Trading Paints — including the race-winning Ride the ‘Dente Dark Mode Chevrolet. (Intimidente, baby!)
2026 #77 Carson Hocevar Chilis Ride The Dente Dark Mode #77 NASCAR Cup Series Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 from Spire Motorsports
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