3 Tips on How to Draw Cars That Look Realistic!

Oct. 19, 2009 - PRLog -- Or maybe you want to know how to draw cars, but have no idea where to start, either way these tips will improve your car drawings straight away!

1. Tones and Contrast

What can often turn one of my lousy car sketches into a car drawing that looks like it's about to drive off my page is the proper use of tone and contrast. This is a difficult technique to perfect and requires a bit of practice and a good eye.

Something you can do right now to make your cars look real, is copy photos of actual cars. But turn these photos into a black and white form. This makes it much easier to visualize how dark or light you need to shade a particular portion of your car. Make sure you have a few different types of pencils on hand to achieve this look!

2. Drawing in Perspective

Angles and perspective can turn an average drawing into a masterpiece! This is a very important skill to acquire when learning how to draw cars. To draw a car in perspective, you need to first create a side view of your vehicle. Then project the major points to a point on the page above your car of your choosing. The point you project to will determine the extent of the perspective.

3. Shadows

Everything creates a shadow. So when you want to learn how to draw cars that look real, you have to give your cars some shadows. For now these don't have to be too complex, but try to imagine sunlight coming from a single source at a point of your choice on the piece of paper. You can then project lines from this point and offset them slightly when they hit your car. Then use a dark pencil and shade a strong shadow on the ground under your car. This will add a lot of depth and realism to your drawings.

If you want to avoid your drawings looking sloppy and unrealistic and you want to learn how to draw cars the way the pros do, have a look at this step by step video guide: http://drawacarsecrets.com/ ... It shows how a professional car designer creates his car drawings from start to finish in the easiest and simplest way know to mankind.