Basic theory about car design

A small collection of tips directed to make that the exposition of a project or simple sketch has more possibilities of success. The drawing is an act of communication of ideas, and the main tool for a designer who wants to shape on paper and to transmit the ‘soul’ of his [...]

Video tutorials on the net (II): 3/4 front

A selection of videotutorials from different authors that can be found in YouTube.

Most of authors usually accelerates the images to make agile its visualization, and not always it is easy to know how are they performing, but in any case they will help us to introduce new techniques in our works.

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Video tutorials on the net (I): Side views

A selection of videotutorials from different authors that can be found in YouTube.

Most of authors usually accelerates the images to make agile its visualization, and not always it is easy to know how the author is performing, but in any case they will help us to introduce new techniques in our works.

Sketching tutorial by Mikael Lugnegård

(Thanks Mikael, for your support)

When Allan Macdonald (from the site www.designertechniques.com) approached me about writing a tutorial for his website, we both agreed that it would be nice with something that wasn’t completely focused around a digital technique. There’s a lot of great tutorials on how to use Photoshop in a successful [...]

Video tutorials

Perspective and sketching with Painter. Learn how to use Painter to begin a sketch or render, paying attention to the perspective.

The videos in this tutorials are high resolution and can be downloaded for a better result.

Even when result has not a high level of quality, all of them can provide a strategic [...]

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 [...]