How to Draw a Sports Car for Kids

The side view of the sports car is the easiest to draw.

There's a secret to drawing sports cars that animators in Hollywood have been using for years. It's a really cool drawing material and fun to play around with. The secret is tracing paper. Tracing paper allows you to redo your sports car drawing over and over again until it's exactly what you want it to be. Drawing with tracing paper also gives you more freedom to spend time giving your sports car a really cool personality.

Things You'll Need

• Drawing pencil
• Ruler, 12-inch
• Compass
• S-curves: small, medium, large
• Drawing pad, 9-by-12-inch
• Drawing board, 12-by-18-inch
• Tracing pad, 9-by-12-inch
• Masking tape

Instructions

1. 

   In this view, notice how long the front hood is.

   Draw each of the sport car views in this article. Each photo is more challenging than the last one. Follow the same steps listed here for each drawing. Take your time. It takes patience and hard work to do a drawing. The more drawings of the sports car you do, the better you will get. Start with the side view of the sports car above. First, take your pencil and ruler and draw a horizontal line on your white drawing paper (positioned horizontally also) a few inches above the bottom of the drawing paper. This represents the ground.

2. Draw in two circles with your compass to represent the tires. Next, use the compass to draw in the rims of the wheels of the car, as well as the inner hub of the wheel. One of the cool features of sports cars is they have huge tires.

3. 

   Drawing a sports car on an angle creates the illusion of movement.

   Draw a slightly curved straight line just above the ground line for the bottom of the car using the large plastic S-curve plastic template tool. Use the same large S-curve to draw in the back, top and hood of the car. Don't worry about making mistakes of lines overlapping. You don't have to erase anything at this stage. Use the medium and smaller S-curves to finish drawing general body shapes such as the inside lines of the oval windows, thin fenders and molded side air-intakes. Learn to look at and identify the basic artistic shapes in the sports car, such as ovals, rectangles and circles, and use the S-curve to create those shapes for you.

4. 

   The top view makes the car look wider.

   Finish off any unconnected lines in the body that you have missed by drawing freehand with a pencil. Draw in various details with the pencil such as the side-window molding, steering wheel, hood mirrors and vent. At this stage you want to make a personality for your sports car. For instance, if you draw large, darker window frames, you can make them look like cartoon eyes. You could give the car a longer, sharper pointed front hood to make it look like a Space Age stealth jet.

5. 

   You can give your sports car a personality.

   Tape a piece of tracing paper over your first drawing and copy it, transferring only the lines you want. Leave out all the mistake lines or marks you don't want. At this stage, also try adding some darker lines to represent shadows below the body, under the body and inside the hubcaps. This will make the car look more realistic and dynamic. Continue doing this with more pieces of tracing paper until you get the exact sports car drawing that you want.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment using the ruler, compass and S-curves. Many interesting drawing effects can be created when drawing sports cars. For example, if you want to write a car's script logo on the side of your drawing, place the ruler where you want the logo and write using the ruler as a guide.

• Practice using the drawing tools and tracing paper over photographs of sports cars. Tape the tracing paper on top of a magazine photo of a sports car, and create a line drawing using your new drawing techniques.

References

• cartooncritters.com: Cartoon Critters, Learn to Draw Lessons- Car
• dragoart.com: How to Draw a Corvette Car
• how-to-draw-and-paint.com: How to Draw Cars