Draw! Cars [Import] [Hardcover]

Doug Dubosque (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 79 pages
• Publisher: Demco Media Inc (February 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606074481
• ISBN-13: 978-0606074483
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,572,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"You can draw." I've heard that a lot, since I was a kid. "You have real talent."

I have 2-point perspective drawings I did at age 5.

Was that simply talent? No, you need more than talent: you need skills (nobody's born with skills!). You need practice (you don't get practice if you don't try - and try again). And you need encouragement - otherwise you may start to believe, in a weak moment, that you "can't" draw.

The reason I could draw buildings in perspective at age 5 is that my father saw how much I loved to draw, and showed me how to draw in perspective.

Here's some advice that I hope will encourage you:

1) Draw easy stuff when you're "off." Draw difficult stuff when you're "on." The cartoon character you've drawn three gazillion times is easy - great to cheer you up on a rainy day. But if you want to get good, forget your cartoon character for a while. Really LOOK at something real and then draw it: your hand. Your foot. Your face in the mirror. Your mother. Your cat.

2) Don't worry about special pencils or paper if you don't already have them. DO make sure you have good light when you draw.

3) Put your name on your drawing, and the date, and keep it. The Great Unsolved Mystery of the World (IMHO) is why some drawings get better when they just sit around for a while - sometimes a year or more. Don't throw them out!

4) Have fun!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is cool!, May 8, 1998

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[e-mail] (Centreville, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Draw Cars (Paperback)

I am 9 years old and I love to draw pictures of cars. This book tells you how to draw some very cool cars like Lamborghini, Ferrari and Dodge Viper. If you like to draw like I do, you might want to get this book.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Draw Cars, February 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Draw Cars (Paperback)

I own the older version of this book by Doug DuBosque and I think that this book is absolutely a best buy. I am a middle-schooler and I like to draw cars in my spare time. This book like many other books gives the reader something else to do other than read and read and read. I think that this is an excellent book and I give it 5 stars and 2 thumbs up.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every how to book should be modeled after this one., December 10, 2001

By 

Aaron Newlands "Sithgod" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Draw Cars (Paperback)

What can I say. the book is brilliant. He shows step by step how to a car side on. Every step of the way. Then there are several cars side on. He cuts out some of the steps but tells us to do it the way we did the first one and to check back to it. After that he shows how to do cars from angles.
The joy of this book isn't just in the cars he has chosen. Everything from a 1906 franklin to a formula 1 racer is in it. But he explains how to look at photo's, or magazines and draw the cars from there.
He also shows how to turn a standard car into a fantasy car. It really is worth the money. An excellent book.