Drawing and Painting Race Cars in Action: A Top Motorsport Artist Shows You How [Hardcover]

Michael Turner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

In this book a motoring artist takes the reader through the basics of drawing accurately, creating pleasing compositions, painting techniques and exhibiting and publishing their work. Although much of the information is applicable to all types of vehicle, this book concentrates on competition cars, historic and current, including Formula 1, sports amd rally cars.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Haynes Publications (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185960627X
• ISBN-13: 978-1859606278
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,627,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a book for fans of racing and racing art!, May 25, 2000

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Daniel Ricchezza - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drawing and Painting Race Cars in Action: A Top Motorsport Artist Shows You How (Hardcover)

What a fantastic book! Michael Turner not only shows you amultitude of examples, most of which are beautiful full colorpaintings of various racing subjects from what appears to be the 50's right through to present day, but he also provides basic lessons that will assist beginners and professionals alike. The cover gives away the content in that the bulk of the book consists of Formula 1 cars, but the principles contained within can be applied to other drawing disciplines. Mr. Turner provides suggestions for the materials to be used to render your artwork and covers all aspects from drawing the car itself to background setting and the various details in between. Rudimentary lessons are provided in the basics of perspective, ellipses, and overall development of the vehicle's appearance from a simple shell to a fully detailed racing machine!

It would be foolish to say that reading this book will instantly have you creating masterworks on level with those in the book, but the techniques contained within will certainly set you in the right direction. I cannot recommend this book enough. As an aspiring artist and racing fan, I often lamented the fact that there were no books that specifically combined my two loves. Thanks to an ad in an issue of MotorSport (which I picked up on a whim) my wish has now been answered! For artists, or just for fans of racing art, this book is highly recommended!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Race Cars and Art - Perfect Match Demonstrated, September 30, 2000

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paul_cheng "K.F." (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drawing and Painting Race Cars in Action: A Top Motorsport Artist Shows You How (Hardcover)

There are a lot of photographers specialized in capturing exciting moments in motor racing. On the other hand, painters on motor racing is not easy to find. Michael Turner has been painting racing cars for some years and his works had been published and well accepted by F1 fans.

This book is not one just to demonstrate his works but it actually walks you through on how to draw and paint racing cars. With Michael's expertise in this area, you won't feel lost while picking up the techniques described. If you want to try it out yourself, this is a very good book to start with. Don't expect to become an expert right away but at least you have the expert telling you where and how to start.

This book is absolutely one of its kind, you couldn't find any other like this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another good auto art book, November 20, 2001

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"sieg46" (Albufeira, Algarve Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Drawing and Painting Race Cars in Action: A Top Motorsport Artist Shows You How (Hardcover)

Its a very good book, at the same time similar and not similar to Thom Taylors "How to Draw Cars like a Pro".
I gave this book a 5 star rating, but there is just one thing that was making me feel like giving it a "4", the thing is that the book could have some more explanation about the colouring process, beacause painting is not that simple to understand for a beginner artist. Well, I hope that more books similar to this one will be published and i can promise i will buy all of them. I like it.
Thanks Amazon.