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How to Make Custom Paint Designs for a Car

by Andrew Dewitt

Illustrations by Andrew DeWitt

Creating custom paint designs for a car is an inexpensive way for a car enthusiast to express creativity. One of the best parts about creating custom paint designs is that they can all be done on paper and laid out in front of you. This allows you to choose your favorite custom paint design without going through the expensive and time-consuming hassle of trying out your ideas on the actual car itself. Compelling paint schemes have a strong theme and bold color choices, such as flame red with poker spades.

Designing the Paint Job

Step 1

Decide on what type of car you want to make the design for. The example used here is a Cadillac, but any car will do. Draw the car out on paper. The details do not have to be exact. Simply draw a rectangle for the front grill section of the car. Attach two diagonal lines to the upper left and right sides of this shape to create the hood of the car. Add a horizontal line at the top of the diagonal lines to create the bottom of the front window. Add short diagonal lines to the left and right side of the horizontal line to create the sides of the front window. Draw a slightly curved horizontal line connecting the two diagonal lines to form the roof of the car.

Step 2

Flesh out the details on the frame of the car. Add small rectangles to the bottom left and right sides of the front window to create the side view mirrors. Create the head lights with a pair of small circles, side by side, at the right and left sides of the front of the car. Add the bumper with a curved rectangle shape attached to the front bottom of the car. Create the grill itself with a square shape in the center of the front of the car. Draw five horizontal lines across the square and eight vertical lines running down the square to create the effect of the grill.

Step 3

Add a base color to the car. Color the entire car red except the grill, which should be gray. Once the ink has dried, add highlights and designs to the base color. Color the front window black or dark gray and the bumper light gray.

Step 4

Add some flair to the paint design. Do this by adding orange and yellow highlights. This will enhance the look of the red paint, and the variations in color will prevent your design from looking stagnate. Using an orange colored pencil, add highlights to the top front of the car and the front right and left sides. Add more color with harder strokes near the front and gradually ease up on your pencil as you go further down the car. Add a thin line of yellow to the center of these highlights to really punch up the color design.

Step 5

Draw a spade in the center of the hood as the main focus of your design. Do this with two diagonal lines that start at the center of the hood just below the front window. These lines should slowly spread apart form one another and then curve back towards each other. Add a U shape to the base of the spade to complete frame of the design.

Step 6

Add two smaller aces on the side view mirrors of the car. Do this the same way you did the hood but make the lines much smaller. Place these spades in the very center of each side view mirror.

Color the spades in with black marker. Be careful around the edges of the spade to not let the marker bleed past the guidelines you have drawn.