Course content
Lesson 1-12
You will learn how to draw a proper line, which is a very basic skill for sketching. You will also learn ideas of perspective and how to categorize the style of cars.
During the stage of actually sketching cars, you will learn general knowledge of sketching with great tips, such as how to draw side views, quarter views, usage rules of sketch marker and coloring with digital tools.
Lesson 13-24
You will create your own design art which may be used for your job hunting opportunities.
In order to create successfully, we will provide you with ideas like conceptual design and how to make a characteristic Thumbnail sketch. You will also learn how to output or expand ideas that summarize your design.
Everyone can improve sketching
Even though so many great ideas come to your mind, it is useless if you don’t have the skill to express them. There are three essential points of definition for good car sketching. ‘Powerful lines’, ‘Accurate perspective’ and ‘Well expressed surface texture’. Every top-class car designer with Car Design Academy cooperated to develop the original program to learn these techniques effectively.
Our textbook was systematically edited from the great experiences and techniques of world renowned car designer Mr.Kurihara and other famous car designers working in the industry today.
We will provide you with the skills to express your imagination into form!
It’s all about Portfolio
Is your portfolio attractive?
It was over 30 years ago, Mr.Nori Kurihara brought his portfolio to Italdesign Giugiaro, known as famous Italian design company, and got hired right away. Portfolio is the most important material for others to judge your skill and future potentials. There will be nothing you can do to appeal yourself as a designer without an attractive portfolio when you encounter the scene of job hunting interviews or internship programs.
Mr.Kurihara has a lot of experience in world wide car design scenes, and has hired on many designers. Why don’t you learn through his great experience? We support you to make your portfolio very attractive.
Tutorial Video by Professionals
In fact, it is not likely that you will ever get to see the sketching by professional designers elsewhere like you can with us. Our tutorial video contains full sketching by plofessional cardesigners, thus you can emulate and benefit from their tips to improve your sketching by watching them. These videos are viewable through your portable devices such as smart phones or tablets as well. They are also repeatable, so that they enhance your comprehension and skill much more than taking live class sketch lessons.
Ask Teacher Anytime You Need
Please don’t hesitate to ask help for any trivial question or problem about car design. You can ask casually to instructors, and will receive the answers very soon. You will also be able to ask advice about job hunting situations or a method of learning effectively, which is a very unique service we provide. We would like to support you in all aspects about car design.
Positive Reviews by Instructors
Sometimes, you might not know what is wrong or how to fix your sketch.
At Car Design Academy, we provide you with first-class designer’s advice and reviews of your sketches. We guarantee you that we are the only one who will provide you with such great advice and attentive reviews to individual students.
Individual Advice Via Video
While taking this course, you will create a presentation board using the skill of planning a concept proposal by sketching what you learned from Lessons 13-24. If you hand in the assignment in each lesson, professional designers will give you advice visually via private tutorial video to you.
View other students' sketches
You will be able to browse not only the current student’s sketches, which were already corrected by designers, but also sketches of all the students in the past. They might inspire and give you some ideas to use or to improve your sketching.
Lessons and Programs
Lesson 1-12 consist of car sketching techniques below:
Drawing clean lines
Basic skill of perspective
Side view or quarter view sketching
Marker techniques
Coloring with digital tools
Lesson 13-24 consist of styling and designing. These lessons help you create your original concept presentation board and cover below:
Setting up the theme of a presentation board
Planning a concept
Developing ideas for sketches
Rough rendering
Effective expression
Throughout lessons 1-24, you will be able to receive reviews, advices and suggestions which help both beginners and experienced persons to improve car designing effectively.
Comments from students
I think learning not only by textbook but also by tutorial videos helped me get intuitive understandings. It is very attractive that I can watch these videos anywhere I go, like while I use public transportation. Also, I liked browsing other students’ art works, which inspired me sometimes. Handing in art works and asking questions online is very easy for a busy person; online correspondence with teachers is very smooth.
It is very satisfying that I can learn what I need. I think Car Design Academy is a very unique and effective educational program that is taking advantage of internet correspondence course, because I can learn anywhere or anytime I want. Each lesson is well organized and easy to understand for beginners. I enjoy learning it! I can watch professional sketching through video, and emulating them helps me improve my sketching. All the educational tools consist well for working on each assignment. I also like that it shows assignment through internet I need to work on as tasks.
I am very thankful that I can learn cheaper than going to a traditional school, also I can learn professional skills without worrying about time or place to be. There are many techniques in the textbook which I would never be able to learn by self-study. I am always practicing sketching with watching designer’s demonstration videos.
Other student's Reviews is here
Annual Fees Comparison
Car Design Academy took advantage of online correspondence course and the annual fee is much lower than other design schools. Since it is an online course, you never have to pay an extra expense for transportation or room to live. In addition, you don’t have to give up your current school or job to apply for our online course.
Car Design Education for Job Positions
From the fact that other design schools lack prominent teachers; students have problems not getting proper and practical design education. This is a serious matter for those students which may hinder their hiring opportunities as car designers.
In addition, it is very hard to get essential information to become a car designer unless you are the student of a school which already has a tight connection with industry leading companies.
Furthermore, educational expense of going to a traditional design school is very high, and this fact makes many ambitious people give up their dream to become a car designer. We established Car Design Academy to solve these issues.
It has been no so long since our online correspondence course started in August 2013, but two of our students has already participated in internship programs, and one of them got a position for a top maker in the car industry. He was a college student learning engineering and had no idea about car design before he started this course. It had been only three months for him attending this course when he was hired.
Some of the top car makers have adopted this CDA Total Course for their training programs. This fact proves that CDA total course is a great educational program.
We have a very diverse group of students participating in our online courses. There are college students, car engineers, office workers from car manufacturers, product designers and some just learn this as a hobby. You don't have to hesitate to register because of time, location, or age! Join us! You are able to register on this page below.
Notification and Tool
＜Notification＞
*If you are under 20 years old, you need to have permission for applying to any CDA courses by a guardian.
*You must have internet accessibility.
＜Necessary Tools for Course＞
*Copic Marker
*Photoshop or Paint tool SAI
*GraphicsTablets & Pens
*Image scanner or scanner apps. (like a CamScanner)