Draw Realistic
Car Flames
Flames are often drawn on cars to give them their own personality. Model car collectors enjoy showing their hard work and dedication by drawing large attention-grabbing flames engulfing their cars. These flames can take just as much work as anything done on a real car. The steps for drawing professional-looking flames for model car decals are actually quite simple. With a little practice you can draw realistic flames to decorate your model cars, or drawings of cars.
Instructions
1. Start by drawing the basic outline of your flames. The main body of the flame should be uninterrupted and applied to the lower quarter of the sides of your car and on the middle of the roof and hood. Draw small ovals to represent the main body of the fireball. The oval may be as thick or thin as you want the flames to be.
2. Draw the outline of the flame streaming down the body of the car. The outer portion of the flame should look like elongated versions of the letter "S." These squiggles of flame should be drawn horizontally, and come off the back end of the oval base. On longer tendrils of flames you can put multiple S-shapes coming off of the inside of the first. The ends of the S-shaped flames may be forked, like a snake's tongue.
3. Now draw the interior of the flame. The interior is a smaller version of the exterior, nested inside the outline of the flame, though you can add a few extra forked-tongues of flame for interest. This inner detail of the flame will eventually be painted in a variety of colors to show the different levels of heat within the flame.
Also draw a few smaller flames branching off of the larger flames to show floating embers. These can be done simply by drawing a small oval and making one side of it sharper and pointed.
4. Repeat for the other side of the car and both sides of the hood, extending over the roof if desired. When moving from the side to the top of the car you should continue the same flame along the edge so that both the top and side will look like one shape. When drawing the flames do not draw on windows, instead have the flames move around the windows or simply continue on the other side as if that portion of the flames were cut out.
