How to draw cars video tutorial by Drivenmavens channel

Hi friends,

look at this video discovered by my friend Michele Leonello. This video tutorial shows really well how to draw cars from a side view to a perspective, at the end there is a nice and clear exercise to show side body sections on a cube and also how to render it.
Have fun!

Line drawing is important tutorial by Jason White

 How a simple line drawing can become a great illustration like this one made by Jason White?
One of most interesting tutorials made by designer Jason White in his latest book "Old School Wiscom" is dedicated to the importance of a good line drawing.
This tutorial is all about it!

"If all the lines in a drawing are the same thickness, the drawing comes across as primitive and static. This drawing of the Apollo 11 modules is intended to illustrate the benefits of using different line weights in a drawing."

In other words we cannot pretend that it is enough to draw lines to make a shape in good perspective to obtain a good drawing and illustration...we do not have to forget that our drawing is always in perspective and to give that effect of depth we need to change the thickness of some lines according to the technical drawing rules. So the thicker lines are the border objects (basic shapes) ones and the lighter ones are the inner lines (like cut lines and graphic lines). In this tutorial it is very clear how and where to variate lines, so I suggest you to go check all images step by step of this excellent tutorial to understand and learn...start doing the same from today to your sketch technique to improve it and bring it to a professional level.

Click: Jason White's linedrawing tutorial.

Legacy Lightcycle sketching by Daniel Simon

In this video concept designer Daniel Simon explanes how he designed the Legacy Lightcycle, an interesting video tutorial with cool sketching action.

Check out Daniel Simon's professional portfolio clicking: Simon's designs

Car sketching tutorial by Miles Waterhouse

This video realised by Miles Waterhouse is promo of a series of tutorials in car design sketching, several aspects of car sketching are illustrated and explaned. From basics like wheels in perspective to shading, from quick use of paint to main illustration rules.
A video to see and mostly visit Miles Waterhouse web site for additional infos.

Copic Day with Michele Leonello in Firenze, Italy.

In Florence on the 4th of April there will be the "COPIC DAY" demo and tutorial sketching stage with Michele Leonello and Vera Taccani.

The event will take place on 4 April 2011 from 11.30 AM to 18.00 at the Faculty of Architecture – University of Florence in Via Vittorio Emanuele 41, Calenzano, Florence, Italy.

Via Carbodydesign.com

Car sketch Copic markers tutorial by Michele Leonello

 Michele Leonello is a professional car designer (ex Alfa Romeo) and a teacher moreover he is a good friend of mine and so I asked him to make a post on car sketching together.
I asked him to prepare a car sketch tutorial using Copic Markers in 8 steps for you followers of this blog and for all passionate of car design sketching.

The image here published is Michele's final result of his demo to discover all the sequence with my explanation step by step just click: Michele Leonello's car sketching tutorial.

Image courtesy of Michele Leonello

Drawing of a portrait using charcoal

Today I decided to publish this portrait charcoal drawing to remind 3 important factors: proportions - chiaro scuro with gray scale - ability to draw free hand and blending color to design volumes.
All this is the base of sketching correctly any type of car or anything.

Enjoy and try it!

Prismacolor car sketch video tutorial

Drawing Cars: Value Sketching 1 from Arvind Ramkrishna on Vimeo.

Great video tutorial by Drivenmavens, how to use Prismacolor black pencils to draw an outline of a car and then create a focal point with linework and shading.
Watch this video and try to do the same.

Sketching well is a matter of training.

 Spencer Nugent published this demo on his blog IDSketching.com 
His point was to demonstrate how, by exercising hard, we can improve our sketching technique as well as our skills. Back in school my teachers used to say " to draw well you must exercise over and over untill you get sick of it"...they were right!
With this drawing Spencer Nugent shows us exactly the same thing, the blu line drawing is one of his first car drawings ever made and the black line one is a recent one done on an Ipad.
This is a fact, Spencer Nugent is a well known designer and internet professional reference in our field with the website IDSketching.
I think that one of his strong points in drawing is the good sense of perspective and his skill in managing the linework quality.
So what are you waiting for? Go back to your drawings :)

For a video tutorial click: car sketching video demo

Car sketch tutorial video by Spencer Nugent

IDSKETCHING.COM: Pinewood Derby/Toy Car Sketch from Industrial Design Sketching on Vimeo.

Many times we talk about simple pencil sketches to learn how to control proportions and perspective, how to apply simple shadows and a fairly good linework.
In this video tutorial (digital sketch) done by Spencer Nugent and published on IDSketching.com we can see how to start drawing a car with simple steps.
Have fun and try to COPY, OK?

Please I invite you to visit the website IDsketching

Drawing cars and making good sketch books

 Hi friends,
many times I wrote about the importance of drawing in the learning process of designing cars. To draw is going to be your best friend activity, mission is to draw really well and to do so the only thing to do is draw draw draw!

Driven Mavens is a very good designer who also writes a lot about drawing cars, the sketch here made by him is a good example. Nice cool sketches to make a good sketch book, a way to learn and progress.

Check out this video tutorial made by Driven Mavens about sketch book and car drawings, I am sure you will love it!
To see it click: Driven Mavens sketch book video.

How to sketch a car on paper

Thinking about car sketching on paper I made a short and quick research on internet to find interesting drawings of cars done with a simple pen or pencil.

I found this one which is preatty good and professional and the author also wrote an interesting and complete article about tips on sketching cars correctly on paper.

His principle is to abandon for a while all that computer digital drawing stuff and be concentrate on a real hand made car sketch on white paper, you know me now I totally agree on that!
So I invite you to read the article and tips and see also the tutorial video he posted.
Click : How to sketch a car on paper!

"DRIVE" - a book by Scott Robertson

Concept designer Scott Robertson has announced his upcoming book titled "DRIVE", featuring his latest vehicle designs and artworks. It will include more than 300 illustrations and will be published by Design Studio Press in November 2010.

Check out some of internal illustrated pages it is really a great book! Click: DRIVE illustrations. 




 

Car sketches and DVD tutorial by Anthony Sims

Anthony Sims released a tutorial DVD about how to sketch and render in Transportation Design, I suggest to go visit the page where you'll find all info about this DVD. To do so click: Anthony Sims tutorial.

Car Sketch Studio by Mason

 Dear friends,
few days ago I received an email by Mason (the author of this cool sketch) asking for some infos about Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Withe great pleasure I answeared back writing all I knew about ACCD and life down there, how you prepare to be accepted and attend the school.
Mason also asked me to look at some of his car sketches to give him a constructive critique, so I went on his blog named Sketch Studio and I found some real nice car sketches and drawings and , most of all, I discovered he is 15 of age! Yes you got it right!
Mason is 15 years old and is doing a great job on his own at home before going to Design school! He is doing it correctly respecting the good method: ideation sketches, bigger detailed sketches and final illustration et renderings. His skills are already at a good development stage, he needs a school to become a real good designer.
So for those that want to know about real talent, strong motivating passion and hard work check out Mason's blog clicking: Mason Sketch Studio.

Car sketch demo

Video tutorial about a car sketch on black background, small problem of perspective on the back...but not so bad!

Car sketch tutorial by Michael Smith

This beautiful car sketch has been done by Michael Smith and it is possible to discover how Michael did it following 12 steps.
To follow the 12 steps just click Michael Smith's tutorial and you will learn how to start drawing from wheel base to final rendering.
Have fun!

Click on image for larger vue.

Marker quick car sketch demo

Hi friends,
great video of this quick sketch technique using a gray marker, it is about a side view sketch done on a good size of paper which gives the opportunity to move well our arm and hand make nice movements to obtain nice lines, control proportions and have fun!
This is a demo by Drivenmavens

Car pencil sketch tutorial

Dear friends,
many times we spoke about how to make a good pencil car sketch and the importance of doing it well. In this video tutorial by IDsketching we have a great demonstration of how to do it. Some of key points to keep in mind:
1. Black pencils super sharpened, 2. clean desk with only paper pad and pecils this is about discipline and order, good organization prevents making mistakes, clean hands not to make our sketch dirty after few minutes, 3. Line quality sketching light before working the depth of our linework, 4. Good perspective and proportions, this is a must to have good sketches in our portfolio 5. Pencil shading, it is like modeling in 2D with a pencil. It is with a good controlled shading that we create dark areas as well as light ones we also create highlights.

Watch this demo clicking IDsketching video tutorial

Drawing Art with a Bic

Great video tutorial about drawing Art with a Bic pen.