TUTORIALS

HERE you will find tutorials from many of the worlds leading automotive and product designers. Step by step they will show their skills tricks and techniques. You will be able to learn everything from how to get your perspective correct in even the most basic of pencil sketch, all the way through to how to achieve fully rendered presentation drawings. The techniques covered will include the traditional "by hand" methods as well as those in the digital realm.

All the tutorials you will find here are donated by the artists free of charge in order that you too can learn the skills that won them university places, placements with industry and finally jobs in automotive design studios. Please feel free to mail us at [email protected] with any ideas you have for new tutorials and we will do our best to supply.

LEE ATWELL
INTERIOR RENDERING

This tutorial explains how to create an interior rendering using Adobe Photoshop and a graphics tablet, along with some pens and markers. The Author, Lee Atwell, graduated from Coventry University in 2006 with an Mdes in Transport Design. He has worked for Arup Vehicle Design as an automotive designer and Alias modeller, as well as completing various freelance contracts.

MIKAEL LUGNEGÅRD
TRADITIONAL SKETCH RENDERING

In this tutorial Mikael Lugnegård shows us his techniques for developing a traditional sketch rendering, with minimal use of modern digital technology. The ability to sketch with only a pen and a piece of paper is very important to a designer, and in this tutorial Mikael shows us the impressive results you can achieve.

HECTOR REALUBIT
HAND SKETCHING

Hector graduated from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) in August 2005 with a Bachelors of Science in Transportation Design. He is currently working as a contract/freelance designer for various industries. In this tutorial he shows us some of his techniques and thoughts on hand sketching methods.

ALLAN MACDONALD
PHOTOSHOP PATHS

Photoshop paths can be used for many functions in car design rendering. For the beginner however the tool can at first be a little daunting. In this tutorial Allan Macdonald explains how the tool works and then goes on to give some examples of how you may wish to use it in you Automotive renderings.

EMRE HUSMEN
PHOTOSHOP RENDERING

Emre Husmen is a 20 years old design student and a Hot Wheels illustrator from Toronto, Canada. He has taken part in the 2004 Peugeot Design Contest and was one of the first ten finalists. In this tutorial, he is showing us his rendering techniques with Adobe Photoshop.