Time sure does fly during the summer. Especially when you spend half of it moving and the other half traveling. As a result, posting on the blog became something that was put on the back burner.
Now that things are slowly returning to normalcy, I should be posting more regularly.
A good chunk of this summer was spent on the road for different trips. So it seems fitting that I should practice drawing cars while on different parking lots.
I am actually very car-illiterate, so whenever I see a car, half of me is trying to get a believable drawing of a car down on paper, and the other part of me is thinking about the look and character of the car.
Cars, in my opinion, are tricky to draw right because 1) they are machines with slightly curved lines. If they're too straight lines, it's too blocky and if you use too many curved lines, it doesn't feel like a machine. And 2) we see (and use) cars every day. So everyone can look at a drawing of a car and determine if it "feels right" or not.
These first two groups were from a parking lot while waiting in line for a convention in early August. I used an ordinary writing pen and was just trying to get the gesture of the car. The car on the bottom of this group was the one that I feel is the strongest. Compared to the other two, you can tell this was a car designed for a sense of speed. I can't help but wonder how professional car designers think of these things?
This group on the left was also from same parking lot as above. The strongest one of these four is the SUV (don't ask me for model or brand) on the lower right. This bulky type of car is borderline a truck, but the lines that make up it's body are still curved to a small degree. It's a classic example of the first point I made earlier.
This last group was actually drawn while riding on a coach bus. Many of these were drawn while stopping briefly at red lights in towns, but some of them, like the pickup truck, the SUV and the convertible (the top right) were done off quick gesture lines from glancing outside the window.
The truck on the lower right side of the page was actually started from a gesture off the highway and finalized later at a rest stop (it's just about impossible to draw a straight line on a bus going at 70 mph).
All in all, these pages were a good practice in observing and capturing the vehicle we see so often.
Thank you for reading and stop by for the next post soon.