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If your anything like me your sick of the way your car drawings look and you want to learn how to draw a real car. Make the shadows look real, the tints look real, the tires look real and create a car that looks like it’s just sitting there on the paper purring away. I’m going to give you a few tips on how you can make this happen and hopefully you can start creating some hot cars right away.

So, now in this article I would mainly like to discuss some of the best tips with you that would help you to draw a car.

1. Make your experience enjoyable – Drawing different cars can really be a fun filled and enjoyable experience if you are really focused on what you are doing. From semi-trucks to sports car, nothing is impossible to draw, but you just need determination and some hard work.

2. Divide your drawing into parts – A very good way through which you can draw complicated things easily is by dividing them into different parts. The same thing you can do while drawing cars also, you can even use different colors for different parts of the car. The top portion can be drawn in red while the bottom can be completed in black ink.

3. The rougher the better – One of the most frustrating parts of drawing is when you make an error with a line or shading and you’ve pressed too hard on the paper. This does two things, one it creates an indent in the paper which will ruin further shading when rubbing over the indent and it will be much harder to rub out. So you furiously try your hardest to rub out the pencil and you end up with horrid smudge marks and a drawing that will be hard to rescue. To avoid falling into this trap, make sure your never gripping your pencil too hard. Be sure to use a light pencil in your primary foundation sketches and keep check of how hard your putting your pencil on paper. I find that the longer I am drawing, the harder I start pressing down on the paper.

4. Don’t give up on yourself – The biggest mistake however is when people give up too quickly. If you take a look at one of your drawings while your doing it and decide it looks terrible and scrap it, your never going to learn how to correct your mistakes. Take your time and fix things up and train your brain to draw the right line every time. It takes time, but eventually you will get faster and faster until you know how to draw a car on paper in a very short time.

5. Take the most care and time when shading – This step is the most time consuming part in the how to draw a car step by step instructions, depending on how good you want it to look. You will need to use a variety of different pencils to achieve the contrast in tones needed to get a nice metallic look. To get a good grasp on this, I’d suggest you going out and looking how light plays on cars and imagining it in black and white. Apply this to your drawings and it will be easier to envisage how your car should look. Remember to leave the highlights of your car unshaded to use the natural white of the paper to create that shiny look.

So, these are some very good tips that you can use to draw a car. I am sure that next time you want to sketch a car these suggestions would prove to be very useful for you.

When you are committed to take it to the next level and you want to draw a car for a boutique sticker or t-shirt design, it is suggested to first buy a guide written by a boutique to fully explain how to draw a car step by step. Just understand, it takes time to get really really good at something, just as it takes the right education to get you there!