what is your drawing technique?

Hey!
for the first, sorry about the language/grammar and stuff like that, hope you understand anyway!=)

Just wanted to see what kind of drawing technique you all use?

the technique i almost always use is to print out the car i'm gonna draw.
if its going to be a4 size(ordinary size for me) i print it the size i'm going to draw it. then i use to draw a line under the wheels, like the bottom, or the "floor", the place the wheels stands on.

then i measure the car, and put dots in all important places(like, the front wheel starts 1.5" from the headlight), the length, the height, the height of the hood and like that, hope u understand my sucking english =(

it is actually a pretty fast method, and sometimes i use the grid method(which is very good, but i think it takes just a little to much time=))

i think my measuring method is pretty good/great.
once i traced the outlines after i finished a car, on a transparent paper and put it over the finished drawing, and i was pretty amazed how exact it became, some milimeters in the front and one door was like 1mm bigger than it should be, so it is a fast and pretty darn good technique.

at least when i'm a more experienced drawer, grid technique i's probably better for beginners.

freehand is actually the funniest way to draw. but its pretty hard to get everything right, u can have really issues with a small thing and u can get a little bit crazy over it=)

and just some word about tracing, that really sucks!
i think i've only traced one car since i started drawing, and that wasnt funny at all.
but i think it is actually a pretty good thing to do when you are starting to draw, just to learn a little bit how the lines goes and things like that.


What is your drawing technique?
any special?=)

hope you understood!
sorry for the spelling and the grammar!

What was wrong with your spelling/grammar? It was better than a lot of people.

I use a simmilar approach to you. I print off the ref pic, sometimes one in colour and on in black and white.

I then make measurements on the main features, and start doing a detailed outline, which I then shade, smoothing out the shading with tissues and tortillons.

i'm swedish, and i does'nt feel so comfortable writing/talking english.

do you use the grid method?

hmm, i get a blank piece of paper, get the ref pic n put it to the side and start sketching it out, depending on the shape of the car i find the easiest point to start from and take it from there.

pretty simple.

totaly freehanded, its pretty funny, but it takes TIME!!!=) to get i all perfect i mean.

when i hav the time i use the grid technique, otherwise i just freehand sketch random stuff.

typically, i look at several views/photos of an object and create a non-existent view from those. i make it up based on what i think the invented view should be.

typically, i look at several views/photos of an object and create a non-existent view from those. i make it up based on what i think the invented view should be.

oh.. i think thats pretty hard

Nah, not if you know proprtions and things like that. If you get your angles down packed it is not that hard. I do it too. It's fun, especially when the view you want can't be found in a book. It's a good chalenge.

Yes, can i see some drawings from you HighOctaneNOSUser ??

usually, I just use the box method, and some math to get the proportions correct. Then I use tortillons to shade.

this is interesting.... i try to stay away from drawing exactly what i can see on a picture in front of me... i usually get a picture of a car that lets me see the majority of its body styling and little things that make it that car. from there i kinda get going with whatever perspective i feel, i often roughly use the box, to get things right with perspective.

i cant just take a car and draw it very well, i dont have nearly as much fun wtih that so i cant focus and get it done.
i'll take a picture of a stock car.. do as i said above.. and give it my own rims, body kits, wings, scoops, and all that good stuff.

*** highoctane- i havent been on in several months... my old name was "79VW" i forgot the password when i wanted to get on recently... anyway, please dont tell me that you still dont have a way of getting your stuff online. haha, i hope youve gotten your shit together.. if not.. good luck man

yea im a newbie ive only drawn a few cars and most were from refernece n i measure it out and place dots and stuff but i just started my own concept to its totally different but its really fun so far im doing a front, back, side, and top view im still trying to improve on mi angled views to make it look better:p

i dont liek to "copy" car either, but when i'm going to selll drawings thats what i have to do=)

i juss use the freehand method, u gotta look at the elipses and make sure u got the proportion rite, because if u dont, a single wrong wheel alignment could mess up the whole car

or so

Yeah Sad isn't it? I haven't done much recent stuff, so right now I am in a bit of an artistic rut. Sadly I still don't have a means of getting some older stuff online. I am waiting for my dad to finish working on our new computer so that I can get a scanner. I can get some digital camera pics up soon enough...

i use the box method, or i draw the car boxy, erase all the corners, and round/smooth them out, and my elipses are always completley totally wrong in every sense of the word.

Lol, I've got a technique for guys who don't know what to draw...
Step 1. Put Pencil to paper....
Step 2. Move hand around in varying directions.
Step 3. Look at paper.
Step 4. Go from what you see.

Bumpity! Well I might as well mention my method...

First I LOOK at the picture/car. I look at my paper, then I look at the pic/car again. After doing that a bunch fo times I will draw an outline. IMO after the outline is 'perfected' the rest is easy. I draw the major lines; windshield, windows, doors, grille et et cetera. Finally after all that it's just fill in between the lines. :) Not to be modest, but it's pretty easy. Just take your time. Up until my first drawing (I drew 3 before the alfa GTV) I didn't even know I could draw!

I only use the grid method for my own prototypes where I have no picture in front of me, only the imagination somewhere in my head.
Also very helpful is to draw the line that would mirror the car ( you know, the line going from the front bumper to the grill, the hood, the windshield, the roof and so on)
I have problems with the way bonzelite describes. Actually, I always remember the phrase: You need to draw what you can see, not what you could expect to see) I have great respect for everybody who can use this technique.
to get a feeling for the car and the perspective, I sometimes just look at the reference picture for 5 minutes. then I draw the two lines of the side skirts and the front or rear bumper. Everything is freehand... I think art should not be polluted with mathematics.

P.S. Could anyone tell me how to add pictures to my account gallery?