The Spanish magazine Autopista announces its XII Design Contest

After its previous eleven succesful editions, the heaviest automotive spanish publication Autopista announces its present year Contest. Previous winners CV’s includes a lot of very known designs, as the Audi TT Series II (Jorge Díez, the winner of the first edition) or the Fiat 500 (Emanuel Derta, fifth edition, has participated). The Prizes? [...]

Sketching with Photoshop

This tutorial will explain the way to obtain a half-an-hour sketch by using a superposition technique. You can use this technique as an easy way to explore the volumes and shapes without the needing of a study of the reflections (although they can be shown).

One of the main advantages of using this technique [...]

Car proportions

When we start drawing cars, the first time we do it is because we like them. Maybe we have been looking at a car that we like for hours, and then we think “I want to do something like this”. Even when we do not want, the first draw of our own car has [...]

How to design a car on a computer!

Stefan Jansson, a designer at the Volvo Monitoring and Concept Center, Camarillo, California, describes how the shape of the Volvo SCC was created, with the aid of computers. He was the responsible exterior designer for that project.

A concept car project differs in many ways from a production car project, but there are [...]

Quick render tutorial

Introduction

With this tutorial, we will try to give a fast view of the quick rendering. Through these 10 steps we will have a global vision of the process, always considering that the number of steps can vary, depending on the shapes complexity and the final quality level we want for our work.