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Thursday 11 August 2011

How To Learn To Draw Cars

By Owen Jones


Do you like drawing or painting? If so, have you ever considered drawing or painting cars? You might even be able to earn some money out of it. Young drivers love their first car and older drivers love their flashy cars. You could sketch their cars and then sell the sketches to them or offer to make 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 about doing that? Well, the first thing to do is make a decision which sort of cars or vehicles you want to draw. That normally 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 type.

Granted some of these sorts of cars are not easy to see unless you live in a big city, yet you may find a manner around that. You may get able to produce some fantastic drawings from decent photos, videos, manufacturers' advertisements or Internet promotions.

The thing that you have to do, by whichever means you have accessible to you, is familiarize yourself with your subject. Just as early painters used to become involved with autopsies in order to understand the underlying bone and muscle structure, so should the aspirant drawer of cars study the basic structure of cars.

All cars are basically the same, merely as all humans are in essence the same, and each body is different yet every create of car is different too. Begin with the general and effort your manner towards the specific. In other words, familiarize yourself with the basics of cars but then the particulars of the model that you want to draw.

If you are already an experienced sketcher, I do not want to tell you how to suck eggs, and if you are only beginning out, I would like to give you some pointers.

Make your initial sketches pretty easy. Start by drawing fundamental shapes: most cars are oblong with squarish side windows and oval front yet rear windows. When you have a fundamental shape, you can begin trying to add some specifics.

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

The main thing is not to be worried about making mistakes and only listen to critics who have tried sketching themselves.




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