How to Draw a Cartoon Car

Video Transcript

"Alright folks, in this clip, I'm going to teach you how to draw a cartoon car. Now, one of the first things about a cartoon car is they are not at all set in reality, of course. Most of the time they're meant to look very bubble like, so there's really no need to add a great deal of realism to your design. What I mean by that is, feel free to kind of get a little bit over-exaggerative in the just general, shapes. What I'm going to be doing here is a, just taking the car from the front and working backwards. I'm drawing, right now, the left, a wheel hub, and the lower bumper, kind of coming along the front, just like that. I'm going to come over here and draw the other wheel hub, like so, and draw the little headlights right up on top, like, just like that. See? Right there. Then you come up and draw the space where the wheel goes, just like so. Then I come along back, and like I said, this is dimensionally not nearly up to spec in terms of what we would see if this were a real car, obviously. This is a cartoon car. Cartoon cars are meant to be exaggerated greatly. So there are the two wheel wells, and I'll come in here and I'm going to draw the wheel, keeping in mind, dimension. But then again, dimensions in the cartoon world are definitely meant to be broken. Go in here and draw the little wheel itself. Create some definition there so make sure people know that that is in fact, the wheel. Then we're going to come up here and we're going to draw the...the windshield. Come on down like that, come on up. Nice little windshield there, side window here. And maybe even a nice little back window. It's not incredibly important that you make, again, everything believable, in terms of dimension. It really depends on the type of drawing that you're trying to do. At the end of the day, this is obviously a cartoon. So don't worry too much about realism. It really just depends on what your vision is. But this, my friends, is essentially, how you draw a cartoon car."