Thanks for your advice. I'll keep in mind larger proportions when sketching to better convey size. I will also do some interior and packaging sketches to show how the car enables passengers to sleep.

Hey! Great start! Because your sketching technique is already really advanced, I would recommend challenging yourself to come up with a story for your vehicle. When there are tons of other options for autonomous vehicles in the future, why would someone buy yours? What can the passenger in your vehicle do that they can't in any other car? Answering the question as to why your vehicle exists at all and what make it an essential part of the passenger's life can go a long way to make your design meaningful. It's not as fun as sketching, but doing some research is super important and can help define the shape of your vehicle. Something else that I would challenge you to do is break away from traditional proportions. If your vehicle is autonomous and isn't powered by a traditional internal combustion engine, then there isn't any reason it has to have the same proportions as cars today.

Hi Davis!

Thanks for the advice. I agree that coming up with a strong background for the car is a great idea. Getting into why I put in certain features will enhance the design. How would you recommend I do this? Is it better to do a comic-like series of sketches that outlines the life of a typical customer, or should I just describe these reasons in an essay?

A comic style storyboard is perfect for showing how your customer/passenger would interact with the vehicle. If your up to it, definitely give one a go, especially over an essay. Also, it's totally fine to make up an individual/ user profile for someone who would buy and use your vehicle (i.e. This is Sam, he's a lawyer and he wants to buy this car to have a mobile office, etc), just don't focus too much on that one person. Try and find a group of people (one which your individual customer belongs to) and design the vehicle for them. Since this is Cadillac and it is a luxury vehicle, the group could be anything from silicon valley start-up CEO's, to politicians, to surgeons. You can design it for a couple of these larger groups if you want and think they will have similar needs from the vehicle. So, essentially, define your customer first, then crate a story board that shows how your customer interacts with the vehicle. As a side note, something that isn't as often explored in regards to autonomous cars is what they can do when the owner isn't in them. You can come up with some pretty unique ideas for you vehicle if you think about this as well.

Sounds good. I like the idea of giving the car some purpose outside of driving its user... Perhaps a ride sharing system like Elon Musk has mentioned, or maybe some package delivering thing. Thanks again for your help.

Thank you for your input. I'll do some proportion studies and see if anything stands out.

Great

Amazing sketches!!!!!

Congrats, hope you make it to the top 3!

Hey Ben! I love the most recent sketches you’ve put in but I do have a suggestion based on the design language of Cadillac. If possible, I think it would be beneficial to add vertical headlights/ daytime running lights, just to keep consistent with the current “look” of the brand. Other than that, keep up the great work!

Thanks for the tip, I'll try making the high powered beams vertical in my front-end render.

Hey man. Your sketches look great. Keep up the great work. Maybe ill run into you at school sometime.

Thank you. Hope to meet you as well.

Love the renders! Good luck!