How to Draw a Real Car – Easy Tips to Draw a Car

If you are like me, you are fed up with the appearance of your car drawings 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 sitting on paper purring. I’m going to give you some tips on how you can make this happen and I hope you can start creating some cool cars right away.

4 quick tips on how to draw a car…

1. Contrast: A great way to make your car look real is to use contrast. I mean contrast in terms of tone. To achieve the best results, you should have different pencils on hand. Trying to make a car look real with pencil type just won’t work. You should be able to use dark tones, mid tones, and highlights when you are learning how to draw a real car.

2. Shadows: Creating realistic shadows will take you one step closer to learning how to draw a real car. Not just a diffuse shadow that the car casts on the ground, but being able to cast a shadow from a point light source and cast a very precise shadow that is reproduced across the entire car and ground surface. You can do this by projecting lines from a single point of your choosing onto your page and offsetting the line as it reaches each point on your car. Get this right and you’ll have a realistic car growling on your sheet of paper!

3. Grids: Using a grid will greatly improve the accuracy of your drawings. Being able to work on your drawing by only paying attention to one grid at a time gives you the ability to focus on all the minor details of your car without getting distracted. It also allows you to compare the proportions of the lines and the proportions of your drawing, so it doesn’t look lopsided and loose.

4. Patience: This may seem a bit cliché, but it’s very important to learn to be patient and correct mistakes in a drawing that you think is screwed up. If you give up on a drawing too quickly because it looks bad, you’ll never learn how to draw a real car and make it look good.