"How to Draw Cars Like a Pro"

What's happenin' man. I admit I did not read every reply because of length so if this was mentioned somewhere... sorry.

A nice useful actual exercise is to pick a subject and draw it out to your view of completion. Then get away from it for about 3 or 4 days... whatever. Then get back to it and spend 30 minutes putting pencil (or whichever media) to it every single solitary day for like 6 weeks. Try to improve every aspect of your original for the entire time you work on it.

The 6 weeks isn't set in stone. However, it is very important to set a lengthy time frame and stick to it to the day. This will help you gain a different view of your own style and a "next level", as you called it, outlook on your skill. Whatever amount of time you decide to use, you HAVE to stick with it and work the entire time. You can't sit there and stare at it trying to decide what to do. That's what the rest of the day is for....

Try it out man...

 

Who wrote the book? If it's by George Trosley, then buy it. If it sin't, then buy it anyway..

Spike

 

Thom Taylor.

 

I have this book, and I say buy it. Like every one else said practice practice practice... Ed Big Daddy Roth said something to me when I was 9 that has stuck with me, after giving him a drawing that he inspired me to do. He stopped what he was doing and said "That looks good, Keep it up Kid". So thats my advice to you If you want to learn to draw cars Just keep doing it, never stop.

Also look at old concept car books, and other car related books. Look and take pictures of wheels and tires, windows and body lines. Look how paint reflects off different curved surfaces, and how chrome sparkles. If you have a question ask. I am sure any of the artists here would help you out. The only stupid question is one that has not been asked.

 

Before I reply to the original question, I'm going to play "art teacher" for a minute. Take that skull that you just drew from straight ahead and now draw it as you think it would appear from other angles. What would it look like from a top/right/front three quarter view? Below? Behind? You want to start thinking about changing up your "poses", what pojnt-of view or "camera angle" makes a more dramatic rendering, and how this can help what you're trying to convey.

The Thom Taylor book? Barnes and Noble has had the softcover version on the Bargain Books list lately... see if you can find it there. Drawing Cars the Hot Wheels Way is also cool... there are some interesting ideas on car design in there, but the best stuff is on perspective and shading. I hear there's a second edition of "How to Draw Cars Like a Pro" coming out with lots of new and updated info.

If you can find a copy of "Drawing the Head and Figure" by Jack Hamm, BUY IT! Not only does this book give great shortcuts to proper proportion in your figure drawings, but it has killer techniqies for rendering hair and folded clothing that are INVALUABLE when it's time to add a few hotties into your pics.

I know a few aspiring artists who have made some decent money on their way up doing flash art books for the tattoo industry. I don't know what the going rate is for this stuff now, but you'd be surprised how many tattoo "artists" base all their work on something out of somebody else's imagination. "Number nineteen? One screaming indian brave, coming right up! What color you want his loincloth?"

I don't draw every day, and when I do scribble something out it takes me a lot longer than when I used to sketch every evening. I do it for fun now, and when I need something for a flyer for a show I'm promoting or somesuch, I don't have to pay somebody else for a cartoon. If I wasn't married with bills to pay, I might have given it another shot, but I was stupid enough to join the Navy rather than going to art school, and just never really got back to it. Now I'm 37, have a half-done hot rod, lots of model cars and a sketchpad I blow the dust off of every month or two.


Do it. Don't let up. Make it yours. There will be more women after you've made it. Don't get distracted by the ones who want a realationship... find the easy ones who just need a little attention once or twice a week. You're young, and there's plenty of time for that **** later.

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i picked up a lot from trosley when i was younger, reading CarToons mag. he showed how to draw a different car in each issue. i learned how to apply some of his methods into mine to make them better.i never really had any real art cl***es, but i wish i had.therefore, i say read everything you can and practice. something i should do.

 

What's the big deal?

 

Like it was said before you can learn from any book any person or anything but the value of the book is what it brings to the drawing table get it use it and draw as much as possible don't worry about the detail and if it looks like what you are useing as a model just finnish it the more you draw the better you will get just like your ABC's there are lots of threads on drawing from people who know your young so time is of the essence.

 

I'll see you at the early friday art show...

 

Now, THAT is art!!

 

well ive skimed over this thread and it all seems like good solid advice so sorry if i repeat something thats been covered all ready, but taking a look at that skull you just posted a bit further up there. if you could trace it and make it look that good im preety confident in saying youve got talent and you should persue it.

as far as making it your job? well, its preety great but its about the least "easy" thing youll ever do. but it will be worth it.

cant say enough about newts stuff, still blows my mind everytime i stumble across something "new" of his.

i would STRONGLY encourage a live figure drawing cl***. i know i know, your thinking alright hot naked chicks. but the greatest thing youll get out of that cl*** is drawing what is realy there NOT what you think you see.

example "arms arent shaped like that! let me draw it like its spose to be" then youve got this disfigured person on your paper. arms from that angle DO look like funny little squgly things.

and so do strombergs, and tires and everything else, fight your "minds eye" and just draw whats there. i cant say it enough


also ive never realy looked at it to much but always here people rave about that "drawing from the ....something?.. side" its full of drawing with your wrong hand and drawing stuff upside down but people that have been threw art cl***es were thats what they taught from realy ssay it helpd.

i think its kind of pointing back to what i said previously about drawings the shapes you see and the lines you see. not drawing what a car is supposed to look like, ect.

good luck to ya

 

I've pulled these off of Ebay, so feel free to study the man's (Newt) inking skills, they are sick, sick, sick . . .