great threat!! worth reading whole the story!!
I love to design cars. I never really had references...allways designed them myself. My mom is an artist and all her sisters are. My uncle (from my dads side) is a luxuary yaught designer. I also learn a lot of him. Last week I went there to watch what they do overthere. He gave me the oppertunaty to trace his mall's, so Im making professional car design mall's now!! He also has some very good designers working for him!! one of them is the designer of the Citroen C2. and my uncle himself designed the Citroen Xsara coupe with a group of people. I don't compare my work with his, but if I need help I can allways ask him!!
I think it's also important to try out every material you can use!! some people prefer working with pencils, while others prefer to work with pen's or whatever. Same counts for the paper you work on. I saw at my uncle's place that they draw on 90 grams chalk paper (also known as tracing paper). I also bought a role to try it out.
I also dont mind giving out a lot of money for buying stuff I never used. Even if I just use it once!! It is allways worth trying.
And as final I want to say that this is my favourite forum!! I think the people overhere are really awesome and allways be good to each other!! If there are questions, there allways are answers.
I gotta go work thurder now. I have to make a signment for the school I want to go to. It's the 5th best design school in the world, so they have to take me haha...It's an international school in the Netherlands.
http://www.designacademy.nl/
greetz Venom