Introduction to Automotive Design

Professional Techniques, Tips, Tricks and Secrets for the Aspiring Car Designer

Created by: Michael Santoro
Professional, Award Winning Automotive Designer

What Will I Learn?

• You'll be able to take your car design drawings to the next level and beyond
• You'll learn to draw wheels faster, better and more accurately
• You'll learn the most important drawing technique of professional car designers to radically improve your sketches
• You'll learn the importance of speed forms for developing your car design drawing technique
• You'll learn what materials are the best for sketching your ideas and how to maximize them
• You'll learn the techniques for laying out a great side view sketches including proportion
• You'll learn where professional car designs get their inspiration from and how you can get inspired too
• You'll learn the vocabulary of automotive design so you'll know what you're talking about

Requirements

• A burning passion for cars
• A burning passion for design
• A burning passion to improve your skills
• The ability to work very hard toward achieving your goals
• Basic art supplies: something to draw with and something to draw on
• Preferred materials: 18 x 24 smooth newsprint pad, soft lead colored pencils, ruler or T-square, tissue and kneaded eraser

Target audience

• Aspiring, young car designers
• Someone looking to change careers and become a professional car designer
• Anyone looking to prepare a portfolio for admission into a design school
• Anyone getting ready to apply for scholarships to design school
• Anyone looking to improve their drawing abilities for product or transportation design
• Anyone interested in cars, design and / or drawing