Shubham Singh, a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, won the 2018 Detroit Middlecott Sketchbattle Experiment presented by BASF. Singh won $2,500 and a championship belt designed by Mob Steel.

More than 500 people attended the 2018 Sketchbattle to watch 15 artists compete in a boxing-themed automotive sketching competition at the St. Andrews Hall in Detroit. (photo by Mike Ferdinand)
Introduced in 2012, the experiment is Detroit’s “Fight Club of Design,” an underground, automotive industry event developed to identify emerging car design talent. Coinciding with the North American International Auto Show, the event is an automotive sketching