How to Draw a Sports Car Easy

We recently created several advanced drawing tutorials on cool and fast sports cars, and now the DrawCarz team wants to show you how to draw a sports car easy.

Car design requires an artist to pay close attention to every line.

This step-by-step guide is very simple, and once you master it, you’ll be able to draw a sports car of absolutely any make.

Unlike more detailed and advanced sports car drawing tutorial, this one was intentionally simplified, removing all complex elements, including shadows and highlights, to make it as straightforward and accessible as possible for beginners.

How to draw a sports car: easy tutorial

Step 1: Sketch the sports car body

Let’s sketch the base of our complex sports car using simple techniques. Define the general outline of the body with rough and light lines. We’ve chosen to use a Lamborghini as an example, but our readers can draw a Ferrari or any other car. By the way, always check the height-to-length ratio. Sports cars should appear longer than they are tall.

Step 2: Sketch the headlights, windows, mirrors and wheels

Now mark the outlines of the angular headlights, windows, mirrors, and large sports wheels. Remember, you can make this easier by using a ruler, but it’s better to draw a sports car without one. Use light lines and try to maintain proportions and symmetry at this stage. When sketching the wheel arches, imagine circles hidden behind the body.

Step 3: Draw the sports car bumper details

Now sketch the bumper lines in more detail. Pay particular attention to the shape of the bumper lines. Of course, the bumper’s contours will vary greatly depending on the car model you’re illustrating, but sports cars typically have very distinctive and complex bumpers. Even at this simplified level, small angular details will make the front end more realistic and convincing.

Step 4: Detail the headlights of the sports car

Next, detail the striking headlights and flat hood. Sports cars have aggressive headlights, and this is clearly visible in our example. Note that we’re sketching a Lambo, and the lines here are very clean and straight, but they could be smoother if you were designing sports cars of other brands. To keep things simple, avoid detailed shapes inside the headlight. Just add one or two straight lines and keep the edges clean.

Step 5: Detail the roof and windows section

To avoid confusion, in this step, detail the roof, then the flat windshield, the side windows, and the side mirror. Sports cars typically have very streamlined bodies with a flat roof, so try to convey this in your drawing. To simplify, as in our example, depict the windows as flat shapes without reflections. Sketch them as rectangles or trapezoids. Leave the mirror as a simple, angular block.

Step 6: Draw the sports car door and handle

So, if everything went well, the shape of the car is almost complete. Let’s continue drawing the sports car and draw the car door, the contours of the rear, and the lower body line. After that, add a small handle at the top of the door, just below the side window. To simplify the car, reduce the door to a single large rectangle with a diagonal top. The handle can be a short horizontal line.

Step 7: Detail the wheels and rims

We’re approaching the finish line of our tutorial. Once everything is ready, draw the wheel rims in any shape you like. For simplicity, detail the rims as small circles inside a wheels with four or five straight spokes. Don’t copy complex drawings. If there are any extra lines, remove them with an eraser.

Sports car drawing basics

In this simple sports car drawing tutorial, we’ve tried to simplify the process of sketching a fast and powerful car by minimizing all possible details.

Try sketching another fast car using the tips and tricks from this tutorial.

For example, you could draw a Ferrari, simplifying its complex and smooth shapes to minimalist outlines, or another Lamborghini model, also trying to simplify everything, as we demonstrated in this tutorial.

When repeating the exercise, don’t try to copy every curve of real cars. Instead, focus on the basic wedge shape, flat roof, and large wheel arches.

These three characteristics alone make any sports car recognizable. By simplifying each element to a rectangle, trapezoid, or circle, you can quickly draw different models without complicating them.

As a reminder, on our website we want to show you how to create a variety of car models.

The same approach applies to all cars. A sedan can be simplified to a longer rectangle with taller windows, while a truck becomes a tall block with large squares for the cabin.

For sports cars, always keep the body low and the proportions wide. This habit of reducing cars to their most basic geometry makes sketching easier and more consistent.

Besides this very simple tutorial, there are many truly advanced tutorials that result in quite realistic illustrations of cars or other cool vehicles.

Once you feel confident with simplified contours, you can gradually increase the complexity of the drawing. Start with additional air intakes, sharper lines on the hood, or more detailed wheel rims.

But remember, the simplified outline is the foundation. Even complex artworks start with the same basic body and simple shapes before moving on to detailing.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I look forward to seeing you in our future tutorials.