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Build your automotive design skills through structured courses instead of disconnected tutorials.
What you'll be able to do.
Automotive Sketching
Control Proportion & Stance​​
Learn how professional designers establish balanced vehicle proportions before adding details.
Understand Perspective
& Construction​​
Build vehicles that feel believable and solid from any angle.
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Create Clean Professional Sketches​​
Communicate your ideas clearly with confident lines and readable forms.
Build The Fundamentals
For Original Design​​​
Build the skills that turn ideas into believable designs.
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3D Car Modeling
Understand the complete
car modeling workflow.​​​​
Learn how reference, blockouts, and clean topology come together to model cars from start to finish in Blender.
Refine and detail the car model. ​​
Learn how to add and refine details using multiple modeling techniques while maintaining clean, organized topology.
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Let there be light.​​
Learn how to create lighting setups, adjust render settings, and build simple environments that showcase your car model effectively.
Bring your car to life.​​​
Master how to animate and rig your car to create videos of your finished car.
Start where you want.
Progress at your own pace.
Begin with automotive sketching, jump into Blender, or learn both.
There is no required order and no previous experience required.
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Follow structured, step-by-step lessons
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Practice through guided exercises and projects
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Learn at your own pace
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Revisit lessons whenever you need them
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Lifetime access. 100% free.
Lumen Roadmap
START HERE > FOUNDATIONS
Automotive Sketching + 3D Car Modeling
FREE
BUILD THE COMPLETE DESIGN PROCESS
Lumen Complete
From research and ideation to 3D, visualization and presentation.
BUILD YOUR PORTFOLIO
Portfolio Accelerator
Develop portfolio-ready projects with coaching and critique .
YOU ARE HERE > FOUNDATIONS
Build real automotive design skills.
Two complete courses. One structured foundation across 2D and 3D.
AUTOMOTIVE SKETCHING
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Control vehicle proportion and stance
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Construct believable side and 3/4 views
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Translate forms across multiple angles
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Understand surface flow and shading
3D CAR MODELING
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Build automotive forms from reference
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Create clean, organized topology
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Refine and detail a complete vehicle
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Light, render and animate your model
Syllabus
Automotive Sketching Foundations
8 Structured modules that build your skills step by step.
Line Control + Silhouettes > Side View Proportions >
3/4 Front > 3/4 Rear > Angle Translation >
Multi-View Consistency > Surface Flow + Shading > Final Project
8 Modules + Guided assignments + Recorded Critiques + Lifetime Access
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Car Modeling For Beginners
Follow the complete process of building and presenting a vehicle in Blender.
Blender Fundamentals > Reference + Setup > Vehicle Block out > Surface Modeling >
Details + Topology > Materials + Lighting > Rendering > Animation
Step-by-step lessons + Complete vehicle project + Lifetime access
Learn from real student critiques.
​The Automotive Sketching Foundations course includes recorded student critique sessions from previous live cohorts.
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Watch me break down real student work and learn:
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Common sketching mistakes
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How proportions and perspective are corrected
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How sketches can be improved via professional sketch-overs
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The questions other aspiring designers are asking
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You don't just see what works. You'll see what went wrong
and how to fix it.
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Sketching Bootcamp
Build professional transportation design sketching skills through an 8-week step-by-step system.
$199
Learn from a professional car designer
I’ve spent over 10 years in the automotive design industry, developing vehicles while helping aspiring designers build the skills needed to communicate their ideas clearly and professionally.
Throughout my career, I've worked on production and concept vehicles programs while teaching and mentoring students through Art Center, CCS and Lumen Design Academy.
I created these courses to make the fundamentals of automotive design more accessible whether you're picking up a pencil for the first time or opening Blender for the first time.
You'll learn through the same fundamentals, techniques and design thinking used throughout professional automotive design.
You
Don't compare yourself with other people.
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Compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
Industry experience:
Real progress from real students.
See how students learn to think and sketch like a designer.
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Created by Chase
Better proportions
Student study > Professional reference
Students learn to break down professional designs and apply them to their own work.
Stronger 3D form
Clean confident surfaces
Student study > Professional reference
What students are saying.
If it wasn't for your courses and the feedback,
I wouldn't have made it this far.
(Recieved a $30,000 scholarship)
-Emiliano
I've noticed a massive difference
in how I think about designing now.
-Chase
Frequently Asked Questions
Are both courses really free? Yes. Automotive Sketching Foundations and Car Modeling For Beginners are both 100% free with no subscription required.
Do I need any previous experience? No. Both courses are designed so beginners can start from the fundamentals.
Do I have to take both courses? No. Start with sketching, start with 3D modeling, or take both. There is no required order.
How long do the courses take? Both are self-paced. You can work through the lessons on your own schedule and revisit them whenever you need.
What should I take after the free courses? When you're ready to go beyond the fundamentals, Lumen Complete teaches the complete automotive design process from developing an idea through refinement, visualization and presentation.
This is just the beginning.
Automotive Sketching
Originally taught as an 8-week live Sketching Bootcamp. Now available free, on demand
Follow the same structured curriculum, assignments and recorded student critiques used in previous live classes.
What's included
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8-week structured curriculum
Recorded lessons and demonstations
Recoded student sessions
Guided assignments
Lifetime access
Learn at your own pace
Access through Skool​​
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3D Car Modeling
13+ hours of step-by-step Blender car modeling. Free.
Learn the complete beginner car-modeling workflow from reference and block out
to detailed modeling, rendering and animation.
What's included
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13+ hours of step-by-step training
Step-by-step Blender tutorials
Reference setup + vehicle blockout
Modeling + detailing techniques
Lighting, rendering + animation
Learn at your own pace
Lifetime access​
Learn the fundamentals.
Build skills the actually progress.
Start with automotive sketching, 3D car modeling, or learn both...completely free.