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Car sketch tutorial by Maxime Moreaux

This is a demo made by Maxime Moreaux. The step by step images show very clearly his methodology.

Please go check out his blog , he is very young and has an incredible talent.

Book: How to illustrate and design Concept Cars

This book written by Adrian Dewey is soon to come.

This book provides an easy to follow guide on how to draw cars like the professional design studios. Covers materials used from pencils to markers, airbrushes to computer generated drawings. The book features clear and concise step-by-step guides to drawing all external components of a car, and teaches how to render them in order to bring them to life. It also showcases work that demonstrates how these techniques produce great car art and design.

For more info visit "Veloce Publishing"

Source Veloce Publishing

Argus 8th Design Competition

French magazine L’argus de l’automobile has launched its 8th European Design Competition, open to students attending design colleges within the European Union and Switzerland (automotive and industrial design, fine arts, architecture…).

This edition's brief is "Less is more: travelling in the era of simplicity".

Participants can submit their project from 1st June to 11 December 2009.

Prizes

The winner will receive a sum of 3,000 €, as well as an internship within the style department of French car manufacturer Citroën.

Info here:

To get all the necessary info click Carbodydesign and or Trophée de L'argus 2009

Luciano Bove on Local Motors homepage

Hi friends,

this morning I went to check out my profile on Local-Motors.com and I found one of my drawings chosen as "featured design" in the homepage.
Useless to say that I am a bit surprised and happy,too. LM is a great car designers lovers community and the amount of excellent work published is incredible! My interior sketch is nothing compared to the works present on the website "Wall".

Go check it out it is really interesting and fun! Thanks LM.

Design student organization

Hi friends,

we are close to june and july months dedicated to final presentations, exams and portfolio's reviews. many of you are tired phisically and in the head, you still have to complete your renderings, final drawings, finish models, prepare final presentation area. For those that are ready to get a diploma there is also the final portfolio to preparein order to be ready for job or internships interviews.
Its quite a lot of stuff all together in such short time, isn't it? To continue reading this post click on Design student organization Thanks.

Design motivation

Hi friends,

Design motivation is extremely important to achieve our goal to be a car designer. Moivation is what really pushes us to go on and improuve day day. Here a propose to you an article Motivation in Design (To read it just click) that I wrote some time ago and that is always of actuality.

Good luck!

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Custom Car Skin competition contest

A NEW type of competition! Details are posted here.
Custom Car Skins® Competitions will become an avenue for Local Motors customers to host competitions on the design of their LM vehicle exterior. If you didn't know, all Local Motors vehicles are vinyl wrapped instead of painted because this process is more sustainable, cost effective, and customizable. Such a process also lends itself really nicely to Custom Car Skins®.

The first Custom Car Skins® competition is a challenge to design the skin for Local Motors' CEO Jay Rogers' 1971 Mercedes 280SL. Why are we doing a custom car skin for a non-Local Motors vehicle? We are testing out the process of the design competition as well as the vinyl wrapping so it will be fine-tuned when we present it to customers on their Rally Fighter. Also, the 280SL is a bangin' classic with great curves and it will serve as a nice showpiece for Local Motors and Custom Car Skins®.
Details: here

Submission Start Date: May 20th, 00:00 (est, -4 UTC)
Submission Deadline: May 26th, 23:59 (est, -4 UTC)

Note: There is a one week submission window and voting will take place over the course of the week. The Voting deadline is May 27th 23:59 (est, -4 UTC). Though everyone can and should vote, Jay will choose the winner.

Source LocalMotors

How to draw a car in 3/4 view

This is a good demo for beginners.

Quality presentation technique

Hi friends,

few days ago I saw an interesting comment to an article of mine about "presentation techniques" published on the website Virtualcar.it. It was a question like: "could you explane what type of illustration technique is considered of high quality?"

In that article I was explaining how to manage a car design presentation in school, what to say and what not to say, how to talk about your concept and sell it without...to continue reading click Hubpages.

Thanks.

Dad I wanna be a car designer!

I was 19 when I confessed to my father that I wanted to become a car designer. One week earlier I found on a car magazine a great reportage about Art Center College of Design, the californian design school one of the best istitutions where to study Design. At the beginning my father did not want to listen to me...for the rest of the story click: Luciano's story


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Luciano Bove Design blog N°16 in Italy

Hi friends,

it is with great pleasure that I announce to you that this blog is classified #16 between the Design blogs in the italian Wikio website.

This is an incredible result that has been possible thanks to your trust and also to the Wikio italian news aggregator that helps a lot with their excellent and professional service.

Mustang drawing tutorial

Excellent drawing tutorial from Youtube!