Step-by-step advice from one of today's top industry designers provides the drawing instruction you're looking for! From concept through finished illustration, Thom Taylor guides you through every procedure required for drawing a variety of cars, including instruction on shading, reflection, styling and design. "There really isn't a better text on the subject." Car and Driver.
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Classic Cars (UK), December 2006
“Regardless of whether you intend to have a go yourself, this 143-page softback helps you understand why the best motoring art is so captivating and why so much of it just doesn’t look right.”About the Author
Thom Taylor is a four-time winner of the coveted America's Most Beautiful Roadster award and an inductee into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. A graduate of Pasadena's Art Center College of Design, he has designed cars for builders like Boyd Coddington and Roy Brizio, and for celebrities Eric Clapton, Tim Allen, and Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top. In addition to creating signature die-cast lines for Racing Champions, Revell, and Testors, Thom is the author of Motorbooks' How to Draw Choppers Like a Pro.
Lisa Hallett is a writer and editor based in Southern California. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles, Times, Emmy, and Westways.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very well organized, illustrated, and explained book.,
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This review is from: How to Draw Cars Like a Pro (Paperback)
Being a car enthusiast and artist, I believe that this book is a very well explained, contains awesome illustrations, and provides an easy to follow hands on course for all automotive enthusiasts and artists. The book provides a good sense of feel for drawing cars, while at the same time not limiting the reader, or rather, the drawer to drawing the "stereotypical" car. The drawer is able to take the concepts reviewed in the book, and then incorporate his or her ideas to expand one's abilities. This is a great review for professional designers, a handy resource for all designers, and a good learning tool for the younger artists. I enjoyed reading (viewing) this book and recommend it to anyone even the slightest bit interested.-Brian (PVKnight)
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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The best primer on the basics by the best artist,
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This review is from: How to Draw Cars Like a Pro (Paperback)
As a mechanical engineer and an artist I have always liked building street rods and custom vehicles. I have been a huge fan of Thom Taylor's designs and ability to put them on paper for years. Taylor goes methodically through the basics and reasoning, with examples by himself and other great artists, to give one the foundation needed to start drawing with sound fundamentals. The artistic quality of the book itself is worth the price.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Teens love this book,
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This review is from: How to Draw Cars Like a Pro (Paperback)
I bought this book for a 16 yr old "motorhead" and I was a little worried when I ordered it that it would be too juvenile. It isn't. He said it was "awesome" and thanked me about 3 times (and if you know 16 yr old boys this is high praise). It has a good variety of techniques and subjects (i.e.: shading, color techniques, trucks, interiors, race cars, cartoons) and a little bit on how to pursue this as a career with art design schools and all. That made it even better in my opinion. If your teen is really into drawing cars and may even think about auto design as a career, this would be a good book to get them started.
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Except for a few amateur inventors who may have fastened a crude steam engine to a couple of bicycles in attempts to come up with horseless contraptions, most people who design vehicles-whether for land, sea, or air-started with a pen to paper. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drawing cars, car drawing, horizon line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Except for a few amateur inventors who may have fastened a crude steam engine to a couple of bicycles in attempts to come up with horseless contraptions, most people who design vehicles-whether for land, sea, or air-started with a pen to paper. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drawing cars, car drawing, horizon line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Darrell Mayabb, Charlie Smith, Center For Creative Studies, Greg Tedder, Henry Hirise, Jersey Suede, Jim Bruni, John Bell New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Francis Ford Coppola by Jean-Paul Chaillet on page 73
- The American Dream by Lew Smith on page 126
- How to Draw Aircraft Like a Pro by Charlie Cooper in Back Matter
- How to Draw Cars the Hot Wheels Way by Scott Robertson on page 137
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