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Introduction to Automotive Design
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Introduction to Automotive Design

Professional Techniques, Tips, Tricks and Secrets for the Aspiring Car Designer
Created byMichael Santoro
Last updated 2/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • You'll be able to take your car design drawings to the next level and beyond
  • You'll learn to draw wheels faster, better and more accurately
  • You'll learn the most important drawing technique of professional car designers to radically improve your sketches
  • You'll learn the importance of speed forms for developing your car design drawing technique
  • You'll learn what materials are the best for sketching your ideas and how to maximize them
  • You'll learn the techniques for laying out a great side view sketches including proportion
  • You'll learn where professional car designs get their inspiration from and how you can get inspired too
  • You'll learn the vocabulary of automotive design so you'll know what you're talking about

Course content

1 section • 5 lectures • 34m total length

  • Emotion and Flow: Secrets of Car Designer Line Quality6:44

    In this lecture you will learn why automotive design drawings look so different that drawings in other creative fields and how car designers achieve this look. There is a real secret to this technique and once you become aware of it, you'll never look at drawing your designs the same way again. The exercises taught in this lecture are quite simple, but can only be mastered by constant practice. Once the technique is mastered, a new world of car design possibilities will open up for you.

  • Get Inspired: Developing Your Style and Technique with Speed Forms8:37

    Do you have a personal design vocabulary? Like fine artists, musicians and writers, each car a professional designer creates bares his or her's distinct design style or form vocabulary. Without a personal design vocabulary, you'll just be copying other people's work and never make your mark. How does one develop a personal design vocabulary? This lecture show you several resources professional designers use for inspiration and how to use speed forms to create a form language of your very own.   

  • Master Your Wheels: Secrets of Drawing Circles6:44

    The greatest weakness for many aspiring car designs is in how well they draw their wheels. Mastering the art of drawing a circle in a single gesture is paramount. Mastering the art of drawing a circle in perspective in a single gesture, otherwise called an ellipse, is mandatory. This lecture builds on the techniques taught in Lecture 1. A clear method for practicing these skills and learning the technique for drawing perfect circles and ellipses is shown in this lecture. Once mastered, your car design drawings will take a giant leap forward.

  • Talk the Talk: The Vocabulary of Automotive Design3:52

    Do you know the difference between a belt line and an "A" line? Can you draw a DLO? This lecture reviews the vocabulary of automotive design. Future lectures will be filled with the words used in this lecture. It will be best to learn the vocabulary early.  If you want to be a car designer, it's time learn to talk the talk.

  • In the Beginning: Secrets of Drawing Great Side Views8:42

    5 lectures in and we are finally drawing cars! This lecture covers the steps of setting up a proper side view drawing with the understanding that it is, in essence, a one point perspective sketch. Basic understanding of the concepts and principals of one point perspective will be reviewed. Proportion is also covered. All the techniques from the first 4 lectures come together here and we finally start drawing our car designs. Upon completion of this course, you'll be ready to advance to Automotive Design - Level 2.

Requirements

  • A burning passion for cars
  • A burning passion for design
  • A burning passion to improve your skills
  • The ability to work very hard toward achieving your goals
  • Basic art supplies: something to draw with and something to draw on
  • Preferred materials: 18 x 24 smooth newsprint pad, soft lead colored pencils, ruler or T-square, tissue and kneaded eraser

Description

This course provides the student with the basic foundation for creating professional car design drawings and an understanding of automotive design terms. Automotive design is one of the most competitive and difficult creative fields. Any chance you can give yourself to increase your opportunity to be successful should be taken. This course is that chance.

The lectures cover the following:

  • Why drawing cars is different than other types of drawing and how to do it like a pro

  • The secrets of drawing circles and ellipses

  • Why you need to draw speed forms

  • Where car designer get their inspiration

  • How to structure your side views to take your sketches to the next level

  • The language of automotive design

These lessons are the same coursework that is taught at major design colleges and universities around the world. This course gives you head start or will help you improve your skills for a fraction of the price.

Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring, young car designers
  • Someone looking to change careers and become a professional car designer
  • Anyone looking to prepare a portfolio for admission into a design school
  • Anyone getting ready to apply for scholarships to design school
  • Anyone looking to improve their drawing abilities for product or transportation design
  • Anyone interested in cars, design and / or drawing

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