Our 1st Featured Design Maven! Hyundai designer Jason White

Jason White, talented automotive designer working for Hyundai, becomes DM's first featured Design Maven!

Our 1st Featured Design Maven! Hyundai designer Jason White Our 1st Featured Design Maven! Hyundai designer Jason White

Intro to Value Sketching Part 1

How to sketch cars using a range of values from a base color. First video in a series of value sketching tutorials.

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Vintage Grand Prix Car Art Series 1: 1950’s Conceptual Grand Prix Cars

Conceptual Art of a 1950's Grand Prix Car Painted in Photoshop

Vintage Grand Prix Car Art Series 1: 1950’s Conceptual Grand Prix Cars Vintage Grand Prix Car Art Series 1: 1950’s Conceptual Grand Prix Cars

Sports Car Rendering on Newsprint Tutorial

How to Render a Sports Car on Newsprint! A quick 6.5 min tutorial!

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Vintage Grand Prix Car Art Series 1: 1957 Cuban Grand Prix

1957 Cuban Grand Prix Painting. Alfonzo Gomez places 6th place with the Jaguar D Type

Vintage Grand Prix Car Art Series 1: 1957 Cuban Grand Prix Vintage Grand Prix Car Art Series 1: 1957 Cuban Grand Prix

Drawing on Craft paper!

by Arvind Ramkrishna on March 13, 2010

Craft paper is awesome stuff to work on.  Especially with old grand prix cars from the 60’s.  Craft paper always adds that additional “vintage” weathered look to your drawings.  Here are couple drawings from the old archives!  Did these a couple years ago and had them in my www.hotsketch.wordpress.com blog.   Using craft paper is a little similar to canson paper in that it gives you some tooth and texture to the illustration which adds it’s own charm and dynamic. Of course you sort of have to deal with more of a duo-tone drawing rather than using the color of the paper as a base color of the car.  Canson allows you to do all this.

I have an excellent reference book called American Racing: Road Racing in the 50’s and 60’s by photographer Tom Burnside. It’s just a fantastic book capturing iconic images from several memorable races from that era.  What is so wonderful is the excitement and energy portrayed  in each picture giving an account of the events that are taking place in that scene.  Each picture depicts a sensational story leaving you wondering what it would be like to be a part of that era!

Hope you enjoy and keep drawing!

Cooper Maserati with WW2 Cargo Plane

Nino Vaccarella Ferrari 275 P

How to use Post it Notes to Sketch: Part 2

March 9, 2010

Ok…Here is the 2nd part of our post it note sketching series.  Having an awesome time sketching on these little yellow bad boys!  As I had explained in my first post, sketching on post it notes allows you to quickly generate some ideas, compositions, and perspectives without having to commit so much time and energy [...]

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Driven Mavens Podcast Episode 2

March 6, 2010
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Welcome to our 2nd Episode from DM!  Want to know what it’s like to be a real designer?  DM interviews our first Design Maven.  The talented and versatile designer from Hyundai, Jason White!  Jason discusses his background, interests and emphasizes the drive, determination, discipline, and drawing required to be a success in the automotive industry.  Check out [...]

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Our 1st Featured Design Maven! Hyundai designer Jason White

March 2, 2010
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Jason White graduated from the College for Creative Studies in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Transportation Design. While at CCS, he was awarded internships at Chrysler Corporation and William M. Schmidt Associates. He worked as a designer at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan from 1999-2006. His contributions there include the [...]

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How to Use Post it Notes to Sketch: Part 1

February 27, 2010
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I love sketching on Post it Notes! Why? Cause they’re easy and a heck of a lot less intimidating to work with. You ever take out that large sheet of paper and try to figure out how you are going to fill it? The first thing that used to come to [...]

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