Luciano Bove

Ed Welburn presents the Cadillac Ciel Concept Design

Published on 2012-02-07 13:45:00

General Motors Advanced Design studio in California, Ed Welburn head of Design and his designers present their Cadillac Ciel Concept talking about design philosophy and showing sketches and models. A real good video to watch, have fun!

Drawing sections on our car sketch

Published on 2012-01-31 17:33:00

Dear friends, today I would like to talk a little about the importance of drawing sections on our car sketches. Here a quick sketch I did, with no design. Just a demo about how to draw sections on our car sketch. Drawing sections is very important to understand what we are really drawing and how reflextions are going to play on our design body proposal, it is also a way to see and modifie our shapes to tune up better volumes and proportion details. This technique is something we learn in s

How to draw wheels on a car sketch by Future Elements

Published on 2012-01-28 09:40:00

Dear friends, I received via my Facebook page several requests to view sketches asking for a critic. Most of the sketches I saw were not too bad at all except for wheels sketched with the wrong perspective. So i did correct few of them sending back via email the correction explaining the reasons of my corrections, however I found this great tutorial video made by Fututre Elements that explains really well how to do it. Check this out, too: Hot Rod Art Book to learn all about good proportions

How to draw a car sketch in side view

Published on 2012-01-21 05:15:00

Tutorial by Luciano Bove Dear friends, I just made this quick car sketch in side view and I wanted to share it with you hoping that it might be of help. This sketch is the very first step to draw a quick car sketch in side view using the tyre as a reference to control proportions length and hight of the car. First step This car is a sort of small compact coupé type and to do it I just 3 and 1/2 tyres between the front and rear tyre to set up my wheelbase, after almost 3 tyres to s

Car Design styles.

Published on 2012-01-18 14:36:00

Alfa Romeo rendering by A. Masera Dear friends, today I would like to provoke you on a very delicate subject: Car Design styles. When we have a new car project do do in school as well at work we start doing our research to understand more about the project mission and how it should be done not to miss it, not to be off subject. We make a benchmark of what other car makers do in the same segment of cars and then we decide how we intend to use our creativity to make our project to be bett

Driven Mavens on AutolineDetroit TV

Published on 2012-01-12 17:22:00

My friend Arvind Ramkrishna guest star via Skype on AutolineDetroit TV to explain his DVD project to learn "How to draw cars now". I am happy about his initiative and project, check out the video!

Chris Bangle Design Challange

Published on 2012-01-10 15:52:00

Get subscriptionSubscription PackagesHow to subscribeThe most “notorious” car designer of all times is inviting you to design challenge. Winner will have a choice between a Bangle workshop in Italy or € 2000 in cash. Additionally, winner’s illustrations will be published in Chris Bangle’s book. “I have written a fiction book about Car Design and the prologue takes place 25 years in the future. It contains some concepts I have been working on, and this contest is to see what YOU woul

How to draw a simple side view car sketch: basic steps

Published on 2012-01-05 13:49:00

Dear friends, a long ago I made this simple tutorial for a side view of a car drawing. By surprise this tutorial got already 11,000 hits! Thank you! How to draw a simple side view car sketch: basic steps

Ferrari design proposal by Samir Sadikhov

Published on 2011-12-29 04:52:00

Great Ferrari design proposal by designer Samir Sadikhov, Samir is a very talented designer that recently uploaded on his blog some beautiful supercars design illustrations and renderings. Please check his works at: Samir Sadikhov Car Design Mania

Merry Christmas from Luciano Bove to all of you!

Published on 2011-12-23 04:33:00

Dear friends, 2011 has been a great year for this blog and myself. Almost a year ago I decided to open the first page for this blog on Facebook and today we are 1748! In August 2011 I opened my professional page "Luciano Bove car designer" on FB and we are 289, via Feeds 753 people read this blog via email or google reader or other systems online, via Google Firend Connect I have 254 followers, via Linkedin several friends follow and comment my posts on car design education. Professionally it