Depending on our skills in handling materials and techniques, combined with our level of practical experience, the level of our drawings will appear. Let's not confuse it, it doesn't matter as cute or ugly, but as successful or not when it comes to achieving the goal: to communicate an idea.
The act of designing implies a responsibility. When designing it takes into account factors that directly and indirectly affect the product, the user and the interaction situation between the two. The sketches presented on this page are drawings and nothing else. They may be beautiful, but they are not designs. Some are drawings of existing vehicles and others are the fruit of the author's creativity.
To emphatically mark the silhouette of the vehicle, a shadow is drawn in a dark and diffuse way on the part reflecting the floor, thus achieving an important effect of brightness on the body. The white areas provide a feeling of abundant illumination.
Smooth shading helps communicate shape and volume, as they allow to track the curvature of surfaces.
The body was treated with orange marker, orange and red pencils, while the yellow and diffuse orange reflections were created with chalk cake filing.
Rims, lights and front grille represent chrome through visual illusion. The same is achieved by playing with the reflections of chromium. If you look in reality or in photos, the chrome pieces always reflect the environment, whether it be the floor, the horizon or the sky itself. Depending on the location of the part and the observer, they will detect what the drawn element should reflect.
In this case, the following elements were used: + a black fine-tip marker + a black marker with a thick tip, to cover large extensions, + and a black cake (to chalk) for the fading on door and hood
This drawing, of a classic 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback, is an example of how much you can highlight the figure in the background just using some white areas of light and well-marked shadows that define shapes.
Small details such as fenders, side air intakes and handles are easy to highlight by illuminating them in simple white color over all black areas.
The headlights have very fine strokes that represent the old openwork glass. The upper area of the same has a strong light impact that highlights them from the dark background.
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Warm shades at the bottom forge the idea of contact with the soil, the earth.
The tires have been colored with warm grey on their tread, to achieve the effect already mentioned.
Cold grays in parts reflecting the upper environment generate the connection with the sky, usually represented in cold tones.
The background is also given by cold greys, with transition from dark to light from left to right. The main motif of the drawing, the car, stands out with illuminated areas with no color, that is, the white of the paper remained uncovered.
To detect the reflection angles of the environment on the body, you can refer to photos of a real model. This helps bring some realism to the drawing, although it is true that too much realism can play against drawing.
The body was treated with orange and red markers, orange and red pencils, while fuzzy yellow and orange reflections were created with chalk cake filing. The windshield has soft bluish reflections, a result of the reflection of a sky.
The background presents an abstract gray square, the purpose of which is simply to be a contrast element.
The main elements to be used to make sketches such as those presented here, available in art bookstores, are the following: + black and colored pencils + Pantone or Kurecolor color markers + chalk cakes + ellipse templates {to outline the wheels) + Erasers and sharpener + scalpel cutters for masks + cotton for smokin 'cakes ... and finally many hours of practice and perseverance. Remember not to tie yourself to any style, as you could override your own talent for drawing.
© Adrián Blanco 2006 — Prohibited the total or partial reproduction of text and/or images without explicit written consent of the author. —
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