I made a short video showing my method to start sketching a car in side view. Please follow and enjoy!
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How to Draw Reflections on Car Sketches eBook
Posted on December 2, 2016
Reflections ebook
To know how to draw reflections on your car sketches & illustrations is very important. Many of you use markers and colored pencils to apply those black shapes on side windows and windshields, however many of you make several mistakes which are really visible. The secret is to understand how a reflection behaves on a surface.
Start always from Basic Shapes and study how objects placed around, those basic shapes, reflect into each one of them, there you will have the first answer about how a reflection will display itself on a given surface.
My latest eBook REFLECTIONS tries to help with simple explanations and tutorials thanks also to Hakan Saracoglu’s car sketches donated to make this ebook a better one.
( Hakan Design Director at Chery Motors and ex student of mine at Art Center Europe back in 1992.)
If you want to check this ebook please click: REFLECTIONS by Luciano Bove
Thank you!

Step by Step Tutorial by Michele Leonello
Michele Leonello is an expert Car Designer (former Alfa Romeo designer) and also one of best SPD Design school teachers in Milano Italy.
Michele made this great step by step marker car sketch tutorial to clearly explain his own technique and methodology, so here I am presenting it to you because it might be useful to understand and of course exercise!
Car Illustration in Photoshop Tutorial by Alan Derosier
Posted on September 24, 2016Alain Derosier is a French young designer working in China. Today looking at his blog I found this nice Photoshop tutorial that I am happy to publish here to show it to you.
As you can see Alan starts from a free-hand simple sketch that already has the right proportions, perspective, line quality and composition on the page. The wheels are very well done following the perspective.
What really is strong in this illustration is the control of its Focal Point (front wheel/hood/ground) with the light effect which is driving our attention to it first before admiring the rest of the illustration. Reading from left to right.
The balance between the light and shadow is perfect and the color treatment, too.
Enjoy!
How to Sketch Wheels in Perspective eBook
Posted on September 19, 2016Sketching Wheels’ Tips is my latest eBook about how to draw cars correctly. I receive many requests to see portfolios and car drawings, often I see sketches with wheels not respecting perspective rules and it is a very bad mistake.
For this reason I decided to dedicate a short eBook (21 pages) to this topic to explain basic rules to draw wheels in perspective on your car sketches. Mostly how to do it correctly.
Car Design Sketching Tips 2 by Luciano Bove
Posted on September 8, 2016Car Design Sketching Tips e-book comes to its second year with a new edition the N°2 and some new sections like:
- Wheels in perspective
- Composition on page
- Backgrounds
- Interior car sketching how to start
- New tutorial & illustrations by designer Michele Leonello (SPD teacher in Milan and freelancer designer)
- New illustrations by designer Riccardo Cascone (Renault Design India designer)
10 extra pages compared to the first edition.
It is always intended to be your reference guide to have at home or on your PC. Every time you have a doubt about a perspective, line quality or about your background you can check how to do it even if your teacher is not next to you.
I hope it can help you!
Car Design Sketching Tips Ebook discount NOW!
Posted on August 7, 2016Dear all, after a year of my first e-book, Car Design Sketching Tips, dedcated to sketching cars & basics of drawings is time for a discount :)!
Paper format – 10%
E-book format new lower price at 7,99 USD
Click here to check it out: Car Design Sketching Tips discounts!