How to Draw Cars Like a Pro
How to Draw Cars Like a Pro is a digital PDF guide to drawing and rendering automobiles. This second edition by Thom Taylor, with Lisa Hallett, is available as an instant download.
The book presents practical instruction on perspective, proportion, line quality, light, shadows, reflections, color, and presentation. It also explores automobile design history, cartoons, cutaways, interiors, computer illustration, and schools.
Its focus is on drawing and simpler rendering techniques rather than painting or airbrush illustration. The guidance is intended for readers who want to develop automotive drawing skills through practice and observation.
Book Overview
How to Draw Cars Like a Pro explains how to approach automobile illustration from its foundations through more specialized subjects. Thom Taylor draws on his experience as an automotive artist and designer, while Lisa Hallett is credited as the accompanying writer and editor.
The sixteen-chapter structure begins with a quick history of automobile design and continues through tools, perspective, proportion, ellipses and axes, sketching, lighting, shadows, technique, color, and presentation. Later chapters address cartoons, cutaways, interiors, computers, and schools, followed by an appendix and index.
Category: Design
What You’ll Discover Inside
- A quick history of automobile design, from early horseless carriages to later developments.
- Tools and equipment for drawing cars.
- Perspective, proportion, ellipses, and axes.
- Sketching, line quality, light sources, shadows, and reflections.
- Color, rendering technique, and presentation.
- Cartoons, cutaways, interiors, and computer illustration.
- Information about schools, plus an appendix and index.
Why This Book Matters
Automobile illustration combines artistic decisions with technical concerns such as accurate perspective, proportion, ellipses, light, and surface finishes. This book brings those concerns together in a focused reference on drawing cars.
Its discussion of automobile design history places car drawing within the evolution of vehicle forms. The book also recognizes both traditional drawing and the growing role of computer illustration, while encouraging continued practice and observation.
Book Details
| Author | Thom Taylor with Lisa Hallett |
|---|---|
| Title | How to Draw Cars Like a Pro |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Publisher | Motorbooks |
| Imprint | Motorbooks, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company |
| Publisher Location | 400 First Avenue North, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA |
| First Published | 2006 |
| Copyright | 2006, 2010 by Thom Taylor |
| Softcover Edition | 2006 |
| Digital Edition | 2010 |
| Digital Edition ISBN-13 | 978-1-61060-137-5 |
| Softcover Edition ISBN-13 | 978-0-7603-2391-5 |
| Editors | Zack Miller and Dennis Pernu |
| Designer | Kou Lor |
| Printed In | China |
| Format | |
| File Size | 103.8 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 108854650 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 145 |


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