Do you like drawing or painting? If so, have you ever consideration about drawing or painting cars? You might even be able to create some money out of it. Young drivers love their first car yet older drivers love their flashy cars. You could sketch their cars and 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 might find a way about that. You might become able to produce some excellent 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 in essence the same, just as all humans are in essence the same, yet each body is different and every make of car is different as well. Start with the general and work your way towards the specific. In other words, familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of cars and then the particulars of the model that you would like to draw.
If you are already an experienced sketcher, I do not want to tell you how to suck eggs, yet if you are just starting out, I would like to give you some pointers.
Make your initial sketches fairly simple. Begin by drawing fundamental shapes: most cars are oblong with squarish side windows and oval front and back windows. Once you have a basic shape, you can start trying to add some details.
Do not be worried about going over your initial lines in order to draw the shapes more realistic. When you start, your car may look as if it is emerging from a fog, but the next time you draw a car, the lines will be better and more truthful from the start.
The foremost thing is not to become worried about making mistakes yet merely listen to critics who have tried drawing themselves.
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