How To Learn To Draw Cars

Posted by Georgy | 3/08/2011

By Owen Jones


Do you like drawing or painting? If so, have you ever consideration around drawing or painting cars? You may even become able to make some money out of it. Young drivers love their first car but older drivers love their flashy cars. You could sketch their cars yet sell the sketches to them or offer to create a painting from your sketch.

The good thing about drawing cars is that whilst they are still, they are perfectly still and they do not change their outline or colour like humans change their expressions, stances and clothes. In fact, it would be fairly easy to compile a collection of sketches of fairly exotic cars as well - cars that most people could never even hope to own.

So, how would you go around doing that? Well, the first thing to do is make a decision which sort of cars or vehicles you want to draw. That usually equates to the kind of cars that you find beautiful. You might like vintage, classic, sports or racing cars. Or drag or Formula One or luxury cars or any other sort.

Granted some of these kinds of cars are not easy to see unless you live in a big city, and you might find a way around that. You might become able to produce some fantastic drawings from decent photos, videos, manufacturers' advertisements or Net promotions.

The thing that you have to do, by whichever means you have accessible to you, is familiarize yourself with your topic. Just as early painters used to be involved with autopsies in order to understand the underlying bone but muscle structure, so ought to the aspirant drawer of cars study the fundamental structure of cars.

All cars are basically the same, just as all humans are in essence the same, yet every body is different and every make of car is different as well. Begin with the general and work your way towards the precise. In other words, familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of cars and then the particulars of the model that you want to draw.

If you are already an experienced sketcher, I do not would like to tell you how to suck eggs, yet if you are just beginning out, I would like to give you some tips.

Make your initial sketches fairly easy. Start by drawing basic shapes: most cars are oblong with squarish side windows and oval front and rear windows. When you have a basic shape, you can start trying to add some particulars.

Do not be worried about going over your initial lines in order to draw the shapes more realistic. When you start, your car may look as if it is emerging from a fog, but the next time you draw a car, the lines will be better and more truthful from the start.

The key thing is not to become worried about making mistakes and only listen to critics who have tried drawing themselves.




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