Drawing Made Easy: Cars, Lorries, Sports Cars, Vintage Cars, All-Terrain Vehicles: Step by step for perfect results

By Vasco Kintzel

This book shows how even those without much previous experience can easily have a go at drawing over 50 different cars, lorries, sports cars, all-terrain vehicles and vintage cars. All you need is paper and a pencil. As you follow the step-by-step instructions to reproduce the examples on your own paper, you will soon see how much your drawing skills are improving. Once you reach the final stage you can refine your drawing with highlights and shading, and add details of the surroundings to bring your drawing to life. For those who aspire to larger formats, realistic finishing touches such as tyre profiles, wheel rims and headlamps will help you perfect your masterpiece.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Feb 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9783844871098

Vasco Kintzel

Der Autor arbeitet als selbständiger Grafik-Designer, Illustrator und Autor.

Book preview

Introduction

Vehicles

Details for adding the finishing touches to your drawings

Headlights on/off

Wheel rims

Tyre profiles

This book gives you step-by-step instructions on how to draw different kinds of vehicles. Perhaps you’ve already leafed through the pages and found the drawing that you would most like to commit to paper? Now go for it!

Make sure you have to hand a piece of paper, a soft pencil (2B-4B), an opaque white pencil (or a tube of opaque white and a fine brush) and a soft eraser. All materials are available from an art supplies shop. If you have difficulty drawing straight lines free-hand, you can use a ruler.

Now you are ready to begin the first stage of your drawing. Do not press too hard on the paper with your pencil. Draw as lightly and gently as possible; this means you can easily make any later changes and rub out any guide marks. As the proportion, that is the ratio of width to height in the drawing, and the distance between the wheels of the vehicle need to be established in the first stage, it is very important to draw these lines with great care, precisely