How to Draw Hot Wheel Cars

Hot Wheels Cars are exciting and colorful. They come in almost as many varieties as there are actual car models, and they are extremely fun to play with. Drawing a Hot Wheels car can be done quickly if you break down the car into its most basic parts. Hot Wheels cars are unique from other toy cars with their larger wheels, roomy hoods and simple designs on the top of the car. You can use this article as a template. Create your own designs on each car you draw. Soon your drawing portfolio might even boast more Hot Wheels than your toy collection.

Things You'll Need

• Paper Pencil Black Ink Pen Eraser

Instructions

1. 

   Draw a long rectangular cube for the body of the car. Do this by drawing a rectangle pointing diagonally.The upper right corner of the rectangle should be pointing to the upper right side of the paper. Add a small parallelogram to the front of the rectangle. Do this by drawing a parallel line in front of the short left side of the rectangle. Connect this line with two vertical lines extending down from the corners of the rectangle. Add a parallel line to the bottom long line of the rectangle. Connect these with two vertical lines coming down from the bottom right and left corners of the rectangle.

2. 

   Draw a rectangle in the middle of the cube for the roof of the car. Add the front window by attaching a trapezoid to the left side of the roof shape. The sides of the trapezoid should come diagonally from the upper and lower left corners of the roof rectangle.

3. Draw a slightly smaller trapezoid on the right side of the roof for the back window. The sides of the trapezoid should start at the upper and lower right corners of the roof triangle. Add a small almost triangular trapezoid for the side window. Place this on the bottom right side of the roof shape. The bottom line of this trapezoid should connect the bottom left corner of the front window with the bottom right corner of the back window.

4. 

   Draw racing stripes on the car with two sets of 2 parallel lines running across the hood, roof and back of the car. Make the lines on the roof slightly smaller than on the hood. Make the lines on the back of the car smaller than the roof. These racing stripes are very characteristic of Hot Wheels cars. They will set your illustration apart.

5. Add wheels with wide (but short) cylinder shapes on the bottom front left and back right of the car. You can do this by drawing a two circles for each wheel. Space them slightly apart. Then connect these shapes with straight lines. To get the full "Hot Wheels effect," make sure that these wheels are a bit proportionally larger than normal wheels and tires. Keep the tires smooth as well.

6. 

   Add the headlights with two small circles on the front of the car. Add the doors with two vertical lines coming down from the side window. Add fins to the back of the car with triangles on the back corners of the car. Round off the front corners of the car by drawing a line across bottom right and left corner of the the basic rectangular cube frame.

7. 

   Erase your guidelines. Ink the entire picture. Let the ink dry and carefully erase the pencil lines.

Tips & Warnings

• You can make a copy of your final picture. Use the copy to test out different color schemes and designs without damaging the original.

• Be sure to let your ink dry before you erase your pencil lines, or the drawing will smudge.

Resources

• How to design flames on model cars.
• How to draw police cars.
• How to draw exotic cars.