Amazing, you know I thought about this when I was a child, how some cars looked like sharks and large cats. And I also thought why don’t cars look cooler. As I got older I lost it. Now that I’ve taking sketching and designing cars as a hobby I wish that creative innocents would reappear.
Wow that's a great story. I think one way to reconnect with our child selves is to not put any pressure on ourselves to create a certain outcome. Just enjoy the experience of creating. Be in the moment, just like we were when we were young. Best of luck to you. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the speed form information. I am currently a student at IED and I have been struggling to understand what is a speed form. I have come to you channel in the past and it has really helped me out. Thank you so much keep up with the great work and lessons!
Adam - Thanks for commenting. I am glad the video was helpful. Are they teaching speed forms at IED? How do they teach you to draw from your shoulder there? If you like my vids and teaching methods I would suggest checking out my courses on Udemy. They're more in depth than the vids here on YT.
Your language and the expressions which you use in narration are simply appreciable and the way you just come up with comparisons from nature. I just went through all your videos and found them to be really helpful as they sounded like some real class lectures. Great work sir! Also i would like you to make a video on speed forms inspired by "dogs". Thank you!
thank you man, just thank you! i am watching your videos and learning, not only on how to draw, but even about the industry it self! the thing you said about car companies hiring people who have style makes sense.
You're welcome. I'm glad you're learning a lot but this is northing compared to the information and instruction given as part of my udemy courses. You can watch the trailers on Udemy. If you're interested in signing up, here is a link so you can take the Introduction course for only $15 usd. www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-automotive-design/?couponCode=LEVEL1-15 Best of luck and keep practicing.
@@howtodrawcars. thank you for offering, it goes without saying that i would love it if i could take your courses, but since i live in Iran and we are under sanctions i can't transfer money to another country so unfortunately... i can't! so i'll just try to get the best out of what i have access to! i am applying the things you say to my designs and i'm getting better pro results already, but i have to work more on my perspective drawings. i bet they're gonna get better as well thanks to you.
Hi Gear ! I'm a new Subscriber !! I just wacthed your videos for the first time. So Yeah ! They are so helpful ! I didn't have a design philosophy before, but now, I do ! Thank you so much !
Thanks! Be sure to check out the Udemy courses too! www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-automotive-design/?referralCode=17C40D3D6D40C2E8CBCB www.udemy.com/course/automotive-design-level-2/?referralCode=7487EEFD9C778A22A1BE
@@howtodrawcars. I've gone through that course an it is at high discount of 96*%. It is Rs.360 in India but I'm 17 yet and my parents won't allow me. Tbh I'll buy this course in the future. THANKS!❤️🇮🇳
I went to the High School of Art and Design in New York City where I was a part of the first ever high school level course in Industrial Design. I was doing clay models of cars in school at 16 and 17 years old. At the same time I was a successful fine artist with gallery representation. For college, I attended Pratt Institute where I studied Industrial Design with an emphasis on Transportation. I was also the first post-graduate intern in the history of Chrysler.
The goal of the speed form videos is to demonstrate a technique and to share a new way of thinking about where form comes from. It's not necessarily about demonstrating any particular individual inspiration. If you're into velociraptors, take the techniques shown in the videos and apply them accordingly and see what you come up with. Doing this will be much more beneficial to your creative growth and skills development than just watching another video. You can't do it incorrectly. There is no right and wrong with this. There is only where you start and how much better you'll be when you done if you really apply your talent and passion for drawing and design.
K- The exercises should work the same. Drawing is drawing whether it's pencil on paper or stylist on tablet. The problem with digital formats for most people is the drawing surface is much too small to develop the correct technique. If you know how to draw from your shoulder than it's not so bad. But if you are drawing speed forms to develop your drawing technique and you don't have a very large surface to draw on with a stylist, it's going to take much, much longer to get better. Makes sense?
Hi, great video! I had a question, could land and flying animals be useful for the same purpose too? Or are their natural aesthetics usually inherently not conducive for yielding forms as interesting for car design? Have they inspired car design before(with successful results) that you're aware of? Thanks for any help.
Yes of course. One of the great things about car design is there are very few rules when it comes to inspiration. There are plenty of rules that your designs must comply with if they want to see production, but you can draw inspiration from anything and you should. The more original your designs are the better chance you will be noticed.
@@howtodrawcars. Thank you for the reply, I'm watching your "land animals" video now so that answers some of my questions too, I've noticed though that when people usually draw speedforms the forms tend to get a bit "overboard" if you know what I mean, still beautiful and pleasing to look at deffinitely but nothing that you'd normally see in a car in the streets or maybe not something that would necessarily still be beautiful after you put the mechanics and weels in(just my opinion though). I have an Industrial Design formal study background(no actual practice in the field though), so a question, is the speedform stage a kind of "aesthetics brainstorm" in the context of a specific car development project, which would have to be "trimmed down" or maybe adapted or simplified a bit later on when it is the time to arrive at the final form? Of course I'm talking here in the context of a specific project though and not on the drawing of speedforms as a way of fostering the growth of one's drawing skills, aesthetics sensibilitites and shape creativity. Again thank you very much for your work, love everything about your channel and that you made available for us, it is truly a blessing to be able to have access to this kind of content, which otherwise I'd find hard to do in my country and with my resources.
To answer your question, yes. There is an army of engineers, marketeers, product planners, program managers, bean counters and government regulators who are standing in your way of creating a beautiful design. The process of bringing a production car to market is one of constant fighting. The more advanced your design, the more you will have to fight. Very few people want to do anything that different. Knowing this, it's important for a car designer to work as hard as possible at the beginning to give the car a visual character because you know the aforementioned army is waiting to water down your masterpiece. If you want to see what cars look like when designers don't do this, do a search for cars made in the old Soviet Union. Speed forms are not the only way to achieve a breakthrough in surface development. Part of your value as a designer is in coming up with a broad array of ways to be inspired. Check out my Race Car Livery video on this channel. It talks about some of this as well. Thanks.
@@howtodrawcars. Thank you, just to make sure I got it right though, the designer does usually have to adapt what he has created in his speedforms when it comes to the final form of the vehicle right(because of the constrained nature of a real vehicle)?
Yes but the amount varies. If you look at the Ford Ghia Focus show car from 1992, that is as close to a speed form / sea life inspired design that has ever been done. Look at early GM concept cars as well. When you are doing an advanced design like a show car or concept car, you can get away with a lot more. Most designers are looking to bring the essence of something to a production car. The new Kia SUV was inspired by a bull dog. Does the car literally look like a bull dog? No. But the stance is reflective of that animal. It's all about adaptation. How well you adapt what has inspired you will dictate your success as a designer.
If you wanted to learn how to dance, would you choose a closet to practice in? No, you would choose a big space where you could move around freely. Drawing big is the same thing. You cannot develop the "drawing from the shoulder" technique drawing small. You just can't. Just like you cannot learn to dance in a closet. Drawing big can help you design because it allows the freedom of expression and of movement that comes with having more space. Your design sketches should express the passion and emotion you feel about your work. In a lot of ways it is like fine art that way, like painting. Drawing big will not make you a better designer. A bad design drawn big is still a bad design. A good idea poorly drawn because you did not want to work hard enough to develop your skills is not doing honor to your idea. My suggestion to draw big is made because most young designers are insecure about their work. They're afraid. Drawing small makes your sketches easier to protect from the world. Drawing big makes a statement. It says LOOK AT ME! THIS IS MY IDEA! it takes courage to draw big. Automotive design is not a field for the faint of heart or the fearful. It's best to get some courage as soon as possible. When you see the sketches of the 16 year old that won the Sketch Contest, you'll see the power of drawing big. He's 16 and he's not afraid at all. He's technique is far beyond his years and drawing big helped him get there.
Noted on your suggestion. Others have asked for this as well. Regarding using other cars to generate speed forms, I would suggest against it. Part of doing speed form work is to develop a new visual form vocabulary that the world has not yet seen. Having your own "voice" or visual vocabulary that distinguishes you from the hundreds of other want-to-be car designers is paramount. Using other cars as inspiration is just copying what has already been done. You defeat the exploration / creative process part of the speed form work. If you're doing speed forms just to work on line technique, then it would be OK.
If you did what? Let me know. The purpose of the video was to get young designers to understand that new ideas do not come from copying existing car but from things outside the car world. My next course on Udemy (www.udemy.com/introduction-to-automotive-design/) will cover sections, drawing them the using them as the basis for refection patterns.
A lot of fans and subscribers of this channel are conflicted between studying engineering vs. studying design. If this sounds like you, a new blog post has been posted that you might in interested in that covers the pros and cons of each - howtodrawcars.net/automotive-designer-or-mechanical-engineer/
I feel like people want a simple design and modernize it. Some features on a car is so pointless and people do it anyways. The looks of a car is not the only thing that should matter. People now care about the performance.
hello sir, my name is vinayak. my age is 13 years and i am from india. I like designing cars and i wanna be a car designer in future. I need few guidance from people so that i get help in my car designs. Nowdays i am trying to design a car inspired by a sailfish. I am even trying ti go in few car designing contest but didint see any opening yet. Can you please help me to fullfill my dream sir.... with expectations, vinayak.
Thanks Alan. If you're looking for even more content like this, you might be interested in a new course for beginners called "Introduction to Automotive Design". Check out the free preview here - www.udemy.com/introduction-to-automotive-design/learn/v4/overview
Amazing, you know I thought about this when I was a child, how some cars looked like sharks and large cats. And I also thought why don’t cars look cooler. As I got older I lost it. Now that I’ve taking sketching and designing cars as a hobby I wish that creative innocents would reappear.
Wow that's a great story. I think one way to reconnect with our child selves is to not put any pressure on ourselves to create a certain outcome. Just enjoy the experience of creating. Be in the moment, just like we were when we were young. Best of luck to you. Thanks for sharing.
michael thank a lot.. my drawing skills have gone to the next level
Thank you for the speed form information. I am currently a student at IED and I have been struggling to understand what is a speed form. I have come to you channel in the past and it has really helped me out. Thank you so much keep up with the great work and lessons!
Adam - Thanks for commenting. I am glad the video was helpful. Are they teaching speed forms at IED? How do they teach you to draw from your shoulder there? If you like my vids and teaching methods I would suggest checking out my courses on Udemy. They're more in depth than the vids here on YT.
This is such a hidden gem.. Subscribed!
Glad you found the channel. Thank you for subscribing!
You are probably the perfect “teacher” to me, if i get on a skill lvl, i will come for some lessons but until then thanks a lot.
Keep practicing!
would really love to see more of these
Someone requested one on birds. What do you think?
Your language and the expressions which you use in narration are simply appreciable and the way you just come up with comparisons from nature. I just went through all your videos and found them to be really helpful as they sounded like some real class lectures. Great work sir!
Also i would like you to make a video on speed forms inspired by "dogs".
Thank you!
Thank you. I am glad you are finding value in the videos. Noted on the dog idea!
Have you seen the video on land animals? Check the channel listings.....
thank you man, just thank you! i am watching your videos and learning, not only on how to draw, but even about the industry it self! the thing you said about car companies hiring people who have style makes sense.
You're welcome. I'm glad you're learning a lot but this is northing compared to the information and instruction given as part of my udemy courses.
You can watch the trailers on Udemy. If you're interested in signing up, here is a link so you can take the Introduction course for only $15 usd.
www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-automotive-design/?couponCode=LEVEL1-15
Best of luck and keep practicing.
@@howtodrawcars. thank you for offering, it goes without saying that i would love it if i could take your courses, but since i live in Iran and we are under sanctions i can't transfer money to another country so unfortunately... i can't!
so i'll just try to get the best out of what i have access to!
i am applying the things you say to my designs and i'm getting better pro results already, but i have to work more on my perspective drawings. i bet they're gonna get better as well thanks to you.
@@amirfarahbakhsh2960 Noted. If you want to send me some of your sketches to get some feedback, send them to michael@howtodrawcars.net
Very nice. Work. Good approach for getting a design.
Another great lesson. Thanks a lot
You're welcome. Send me an email and let me know how you are doing.
How To Draw Cars okay :)
thank you sir for amazing video.
it is very helpful to understand speed form and inspiration.
You are most welcome
WOW! This is absolutely amazing, because a Shark's profile is the inspiration for my current project.
Richard: Glad it was helpful. What is your current project?
@@howtodrawcars. A single seat reverse-Trike body shell.
Is it going to be a production piece, a study you're doing for yourself or a school project?
@@howtodrawcars. It is for a contest.
@@richardike2342 Nice. Let me know if you want some feedback on it before you submit it. michael@howtodrawcars.net
amazing design
Thank you! Cheers!
Hellow sir, its verry usefull to kept my passion on the go
Love this - just subscribed! 🤩
Thanks. Be sure to take part in the upcoming Sketch Contest.
@@howtodrawcars. what sketch contest- how do i take part?
@@studiot7480 The next video will make the announcement with all the rules, etc. Should be up soon. Thanks!
What kind of pencil you are using? Looks like a beautiful dark red
Prismacolor Premier Tuscan Red. The tuscan red is my favorite for pencil sketching. More passionate than plain old black.
I love this!!! Amazing!!! Keep doing stuff like thiz
THANX !!! BRO IT REALLY HELPS. I have tried to design cars being inspired by f1 cars and f22 raptor and I want it to show to a professional.
Glad it's helping.
Hi Gear !
I'm a new Subscriber !!
I just wacthed your videos for the first time. So Yeah ! They are so helpful ! I didn't have a design philosophy before, but now, I do ! Thank you so much !
So what is your design philosophy? Please share. The world wants to know. :-)
yes this was very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Wow this really helps thanks
Really nice channel. Subscribed.
Thanks!
Great idea it's nice
Glad you like it.
Just subbed!
Thanks! Be sure to check out the Udemy courses too!
www.udemy.com/course/introduction-to-automotive-design/?referralCode=17C40D3D6D40C2E8CBCB
www.udemy.com/course/automotive-design-level-2/?referralCode=7487EEFD9C778A22A1BE
@@howtodrawcars. I've gone through that course an it is at high discount of 96*%. It is Rs.360 in India but I'm 17 yet and my parents won't allow me. Tbh I'll buy this course in the future. THANKS!❤️🇮🇳
Helpful
Glad it helped!
Wonderul video as usual! I wonder, what's your education and where did you educate yourself?
I went to the High School of Art and Design in New York City where I was a part of the first ever high school level course in Industrial Design. I was doing clay models of cars in school at 16 and 17 years old. At the same time I was a successful fine artist with gallery representation. For college, I attended Pratt Institute where I studied Industrial Design with an emphasis on Transportation. I was also the first post-graduate intern in the history of Chrysler.
Interesting
Glad you thought so.
Great!!!
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
I love black Marilyn
can u make a video of car sketching using speed form??
Can you show the same process for lions and jaguars?
It really helps
Glad to hear it!
i like velociraptor(inspired)
The goal of the speed form videos is to demonstrate a technique and to share a new way of thinking about where form comes from. It's not necessarily about demonstrating any particular individual inspiration.
If you're into velociraptors, take the techniques shown in the videos and apply them accordingly and see what you come up with. Doing this will be much more beneficial to your creative growth and skills development than just watching another video.
You can't do it incorrectly. There is no right and wrong with this. There is only where you start and how much better you'll be when you done if you really apply your talent and passion for drawing and design.
Please make a video about car designer career
What specifically do you want to know? Give me a list.
Yup that was helpful
do you have any speed forms exercices in digital media? i think doing it digitally can be interesting and challenging as well.
K-
The exercises should work the same. Drawing is drawing whether it's pencil on paper or stylist on tablet. The problem with digital formats for most people is the drawing surface is much too small to develop the correct technique.
If you know how to draw from your shoulder than it's not so bad. But if you are drawing speed forms to develop your drawing technique and you don't have a very large surface to draw on with a stylist, it's going to take much, much longer to get better.
Makes sense?
@@howtodrawcars. so the key is drawing big so your shoulder heve space to move
and make longer lines ,and in order to do that you need space.
Hi, great video! I had a question, could land and flying animals be useful for the same purpose too? Or are their natural aesthetics usually inherently not conducive for yielding forms as interesting for car design? Have they inspired car design before(with successful results) that you're aware of?
Thanks for any help.
Yes of course. One of the great things about car design is there are very few rules when it comes to inspiration. There are plenty of rules that your designs must comply with if they want to see production, but you can draw inspiration from anything and you should. The more original your designs are the better chance you will be noticed.
@@howtodrawcars. Thank you for the reply, I'm watching your "land animals" video now so that answers some of my questions too, I've noticed though that when people usually draw speedforms the forms tend to get a bit "overboard" if you know what I mean, still beautiful and pleasing to look at deffinitely but nothing that you'd normally see in a car in the streets or maybe not something that would necessarily still be beautiful after you put the mechanics and weels in(just my opinion though). I have an Industrial Design formal study background(no actual practice in the field though), so a question, is the speedform stage a kind of "aesthetics brainstorm" in the context of a specific car development project, which would have to be "trimmed down" or maybe adapted or simplified a bit later on when it is the time to arrive at the final form?
Of course I'm talking here in the context of a specific project though and not on the drawing of speedforms as a way of fostering the growth of one's drawing skills, aesthetics sensibilitites and shape creativity.
Again thank you very much for your work, love everything about your channel and that you made available for us, it is truly a blessing to be able to have access to this kind of content, which otherwise I'd find hard to do in my country and with my resources.
To answer your question, yes. There is an army of engineers, marketeers, product planners, program managers, bean counters and government regulators who are standing in your way of creating a beautiful design. The process of bringing a production car to market is one of constant fighting. The more advanced your design, the more you will have to fight. Very few people want to do anything that different. Knowing this, it's important for a car designer to work as hard as possible at the beginning to give the car a visual character because you know the aforementioned army is waiting to water down your masterpiece. If you want to see what cars look like when designers don't do this, do a search for cars made in the old Soviet Union. Speed forms are not the only way to achieve a breakthrough in surface development. Part of your value as a designer is in coming up with a broad array of ways to be inspired. Check out my Race Car Livery video on this channel. It talks about some of this as well. Thanks.
@@howtodrawcars. Thank you, just to make sure I got it right though, the designer does usually have to adapt what he has created in his speedforms when it comes to the final form of the vehicle right(because of the constrained nature of a real vehicle)?
Yes but the amount varies. If you look at the Ford Ghia Focus show car from 1992, that is as close to a speed form / sea life inspired design that has ever been done. Look at early GM concept cars as well. When you are doing an advanced design like a show car or concept car, you can get away with a lot more. Most designers are looking to bring the essence of something to a production car. The new Kia SUV was inspired by a bull dog. Does the car literally look like a bull dog? No. But the stance is reflective of that animal. It's all about adaptation. How well you adapt what has inspired you will dictate your success as a designer.
Remember Vinny in Atlantis: The Lost Empire saying "Hey Milo, you got anything sporty, you know, like a tuna?"
Exactly!
do you think drawing on a bigger format can give you more freedom with the design? or just like the end result turns out smoother
If you wanted to learn how to dance, would you choose a closet to practice in? No, you would choose a big space where you could move around freely. Drawing big is the same thing. You cannot develop the "drawing from the shoulder" technique drawing small. You just can't. Just like you cannot learn to dance in a closet.
Drawing big can help you design because it allows the freedom of expression and of movement that comes with having more space. Your design sketches should express the passion and emotion you feel about your work. In a lot of ways it is like fine art that way, like painting.
Drawing big will not make you a better designer. A bad design drawn big is still a bad design. A good idea poorly drawn because you did not want to work hard enough to develop your skills is not doing honor to your idea. My suggestion to draw big is made because most young designers are insecure about their work. They're afraid.
Drawing small makes your sketches easier to protect from the world. Drawing big makes a statement. It says LOOK AT ME! THIS IS MY IDEA! it takes courage to draw big. Automotive design is not a field for the faint of heart or the fearful. It's best to get some courage as soon as possible.
When you see the sketches of the 16 year old that won the Sketch Contest, you'll see the power of drawing big. He's 16 and he's not afraid at all. He's technique is far beyond his years and drawing big helped him get there.
kee p doing it really help
Please make a video for speed forms inspirations from daily life please sir
Noted. Thanks for the suggestion.
Can there be a video of difference between the sports car, sedan cars, SUV etc pls
What part of the difference between them do you want to see in the video? Do you mean in how to draw them? Let me know.
@@howtodrawcars. what I mean was how's the difference between the design of those cars
Can you make a video based on land animals?
Also, is it still beneficial to do speed forms based on other cars?
Noted on your suggestion. Others have asked for this as well. Regarding using other cars to generate speed forms, I would suggest against it. Part of doing speed form work is to develop a new visual form vocabulary that the world has not yet seen. Having your own "voice" or visual vocabulary that distinguishes you from the hundreds of other want-to-be car designers is paramount. Using other cars as inspiration is just copying what has already been done. You defeat the exploration / creative process part of the speed form work. If you're doing speed forms just to work on line technique, then it would be OK.
@@howtodrawcars. perfect speech
Hay Micle can you tell me what kind of color pencile i have to use
Anything with a very soft and creamy lead. I use Prismacolor Premier. Verithins will also work.
Is there any way to catch the pencil in right position to draw lines and circles ?
Did you mean hold the pencil? The ability doesn't come from how you hold the pencil but in how you move your whole arm.
@@howtodrawcars. Thanks for letting me know.
Michael, you are the president of mac case. Correct me if i am wrong.
Correct.
good morning professor😃! I have made a speed form of the Mercedes Benz biome! may I share it with you? (btw I'm 13)
You can send it to michael@howtodrawcars.net
How about bull?
Yes, there is a plan for another vid with land based animals. Bull is an excellent one too!
How about EAGLE ?
Yes, there is a plan for another vid with land based animals. Eagle is an excellent one.
大师！
谢谢 ! 一定要留意我们即将举行的草图比赛
While drawing land based animals draw a viper I from India how to join a design school
The top design school in India is NID. I would suggest contacting them to see what the admission prices is. Good luck.
Thank you sir
This is cool and all, but my professor would fail me hard if I did this -.- here I was hoping I'd get a proper tutorial on making section lines etc.
If you did what? Let me know. The purpose of the video was to get young designers to understand that new ideas do not come from copying existing car but from things outside the car world. My next course on Udemy (www.udemy.com/introduction-to-automotive-design/) will cover sections, drawing them the using them as the basis for refection patterns.
A lot of fans and subscribers of this channel are conflicted between studying engineering vs. studying design. If this sounds like you, a new blog post has been posted that you might in interested in that covers the pros and cons of each - howtodrawcars.net/automotive-designer-or-mechanical-engineer/
I feel like people want a simple design and modernize it. Some features on a car is so pointless and people do it anyways.
The looks of a car is not the only thing that should matter.
People now care about the performance.
hello sir,
my name is vinayak. my age is 13 years and i am from india. I like designing cars and i wanna be a car designer in future. I need few guidance from people so that i get help in my car designs. Nowdays i am trying to design a car inspired by a sailfish. I am even trying ti go in few car designing contest but didint see any opening yet. Can you please help me to fullfill my dream sir....
with expectations, vinayak.
Please send me your sketches and I will give my feedback - michael@howtodrawcars.net
why dont you answer??
Biomimicry.
Next video: how to design an electric car
When i clicked the video I thought he was going to draw a shark car
Rewatched at least twice. Still not getting what you are trying to say.
Regarding which part? Let me know and I will try to shed some light. Did you see the new form study video on land animals? Check the channel listings.
michael thank a lot.. my drawing skills have gone to the next level
Excellent. Great to hear. Thanks for leaving some feedback and letting me know.
Great !!!!
Thanks Alan. If you're looking for even more content like this, you might be interested in a new course for beginners called "Introduction to Automotive Design". Check out the free preview here - www.udemy.com/introduction-to-automotive-design/learn/v4/overview