How to Draw a Muscle Car
America has long had a fascination with its fast and furious muscle cars. Muscle cars hark back to the classic Ford Mustang, Pontiac GTO, Chevy Camaro, Plymouth Roadrunner and other models of the 1960s. Motor sports and current day hot rods have never been more popular, as in NASCAR racing. These automobiles can be drawn in a few steps with a sharp eye for overall shape, followed by an attention to detail.
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Things You'll Need
- Pencil
- Drawing paper
- Eraser
- Ruler
- Drawing markers, fine and medium point
- Reference photo or car
Instructions
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Look for photo images of the car or cars you'd like to draw. Choose from magazines, books and the Internet. Pick a dynamic image of the car you want to draw, that depicts the best features; for example, the front grille of a 1966 Pontiac GTO. Print out several pictures of your image using a computer printer, or make copies, preferable in color.
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Analyze the main shapes that make up the car; for example, rectangles for windows and doors and circles for tires. Use a drawing marker to outline the main shapes that make the car. Limit the outline tracings to as few shapes as possible. Repeat this exercise until you have distilled the overall shape of the car to about five or six shapes.
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Keep the shape sketches on hand to refer to, along with a picture of the car with no shape outlines drawn on it. Lightly sketch the main shapes of the car centered in the paper, referring to the shape drawings and the car photo. Draw and erase until you have properly sketched the shapes in relation to each other, recreating the outline of the car.
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Look inside the major five or six shapes that make the muscle car. Find the secondary shapes inside these shapes. Lightly sketch them inside the proper shape on the drawing. Draw and erase until they look correct.
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Look at your reference photo to see what details lie inside the secondary shapes; for example, door handles and hubcap details. If there are dark areas of your reference photos, such as tires, fill them in. Give your drawing a finished look by tracing the pencil lines with a fine line drawing marker. Erase the pencil lines once the ink is dry.
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Tips & Warnings
Color your drawing with color pencils or water color paints. Start with the lighter colors first, adding their shapes. Work to the darker colors. An alternative coloring method is to scan your drawing into an image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop and add color.
Draw a muscle car from life rather than from a reference photo. Use the same method of seeing the shapes that compose the car. It may be more challenging to draw a muscle car from life, but life drawing tends to have more dimension that drawings created using reference photos.
