One of the first hobbies I ever had was drawing cars. The earliest thing I remember wanting to be when I grew up was a car designer. I loved sketching and drawing side profiles of imaginary vehicles. In grade 7, we had an art project of any style that we wanted. I chose a hyperrealistic pencil drawing of a Mustang, which introduced me to an entirely new passion.
My hyperrealism drawings are not from my imagination; they are real photographs which I do my best to recreate. To maintain proportions in my drawings, I overlay a grid on my reference photo, and the first thing I draw on the paper is a matching grid. From there, I lightly draw the prominent lines in the drawing with an extremely hard pencil (5H), and add darker and darker layers.
At some point, I would like to experiment with placing a display or printed photo underneath my paper, projecting the image across, and then tracing it, for more accurate realism.
