Car Digital Drawing and Painting Tutorials
Create a Futuristic Concept Car in Photoshop
A video tutorial in eight parts that shows how to create a futuristic concept car using Photoshop.
Alpine A444: Rendering walkthrough
Local Motors designer and community manager Aurel Francois gives some information and tips about a rendering he made for the Le Mans themed sketch wall challenge.
Car sketching video demo
A video demonstration that shows how to sketch a car in Photoshop from scratch and render it using the standard hard round brush and airbrush.
1960s Cheetah race car illustration
A visual walkthrough of a race car illustration, done by concept designer Dwayne Vance.
How to color a car sketch
In this tutorial designers Luciano Bove and Fabio Ferrante explain the process for coloring a car sketch starting from a line drawing.
Daytona Rendering Process
A visual walkthrough of the creation process of a digital rendering, starting from a line drawing.
Automotive design quick line work
A quick line drawing sketch of a sportscar, done in Autodesk SketchBook Pro.
Under-lit Car Rendering Technique
In this visual walkthrough designer Gary Ragle shows his technique for rendering a vehicle using an under-lit technique starting from a linedrawing.
Volvo Concept design rendering video
A 22-minute video by Mikael Lugnegard who creates a digital car rendering in Photoshop starting from a line drawing.
Mercedes-Benz Concept sketching demo
A speeded-up video by João Dias, showing the digital rendering process of a Mercedes-Benz concept sketch in Adobe Photoshop.
MINI Cooper design sketching video
In this video Arvind Ramkrishna from Driven Mavens shows the creation process of a design sketch of a MINI Cooper hatch. Done in Painter 12 with a Fujitsu tablet PC.
Car sketching – Lighting tutorial
A two hour video tutorial that explains the author’s lighting workflow for rendering a car sketch in SketchBook Pro.
Rendering techniques in Painter 12
In this video tutorial concept designer Dwayne Vance explains his digital painting process using Painter 12 and a Wacom Cintiq 21 UX, covering rendering materials and color variations.
Design Strategy: PSD (Proportion – Surface – Detail)
A car design tutorial by Scott Robertson who explains the basics of the P.S.D. (proportion – surface – detail) strategy of styling by showing different cars designed over the same base vehicle.
Jaguar Concept from sketch to rendering
A visual walkthrough of the rendering process of a Jaguar Concept starting from a scanned pencil sketch.
Car Photoshop Retouch
After the long series of videos demonstrating traditional media, in this 10 minutes time-lapsed clip design instructor Sangwon Seok shows his technique for enhancing and retourchin a marker sketch in Photoshop.
BMW Pick-up concept tutorial
A visual walkthrough showing the steps for creating a digital car rendering starting from a sketch.
Drawing Cars in 3 mins – Sketch #3
A car sketch tutorial from the “Drawing Cars in 3 mins” series. Done on a Tablet PC with Corel Painter 12.