Tons of people pretty much every day are trying to come up with tips on how to learn to really draw a car. So what is it that’s so hard and how can you find out how to draw a car properly and make it look real? I’ll be furnishing you with some tips I’ve learnt that one can apply to your drawings and hopefully create a car that seems as if it’ll drive right off your paper!
Most car drawings that I’ve observed show me that folks lack a couple of key things when attempting to draw a car. One of them is patience. It is always obvious when someone only has spent a half-hour on a drawing that they’ve tried to compose on their own.
Drawing a car and making it look real is hard enough without having to make up every detail of your drawing. I suggest beginning drawing from a reference picture. You actually can trace right over pictures if you’d like, but this won’t help you much ultimately. You must train your brain to perceive lines and tones and be able to apply them to your drawings.
It’s a bright, colorful world…or is it?
One great tip that I use when I have trouble deciding what my drawing may need to look like is removing the color. Whenever you remove all of the color of a car photo, you’re just left with the grayscale tones that you need to replicate as part of your drawing. This makes it easier to visualize what you should do to make your car look real and accurate.
When you are doing this, observe the way the light plays on different surfaces of the car. Do you find it shiny and metallic? Dull and rubbery? What makes it look different on a photo and how would you think you can represent that with pencil and paper? Obtaining a firm understanding of this process will allow you not only learn how to draw a car very well, but also you’ll be able to draw anything you want. Great artists have become great through practice and observation. You can do the same.
Don’t go full tilt!
One thing I notice in a lot of aspiring artists and something that I was also doing is the tilting of your head. This may not seem like much but when you tilt your head, without noticing it, you are effectively offsetting the position of your drawing and you will end up with a car that slants to the left or right. To prevent this stop every couple of minutes, stand back and look at your drawing from a different view point. Ensure everything that should be horizontal is and that it isn’t leaning one way or another.
If you’re sick of your drawings looking sloppy and unrealistic and you want to learn how to draw a car the way the pros do, practice the above helpful tips and you’ll improve pretty quickly. You may also benefit from How To Draw Cars Fast and Easy.