Why drawing cars?

I was just thinking about my impression that why it is so popular to draw cars in vector applications? :) I mean almost in everybody`s portfolio there is a beautiful car :)

Maybe that is a good lesson to practice through the lights, shadows etc?

certainly good practice

maybe it's because the cars themselves are usually designed using computer tools that are CAD/CAM-vector based

Cars, like human faces are iconic visual objects, with immediate, familiar recognition. As an artist, if you screw up a human face, no matter how realistic the rest the image, it will seem less realistic or poorly done. If you get the car looking recognizalbe and fairly accurate (especially with metallic highlights and shadows), the rest of the image will work. Being so iconic, cars are frequently replicated by vector artists.

However, there are no car illustrations in my portfolio - I'm not into cars, per se. Illustrations of humans, illustrations in reference to pre-20th century styles and maps are all that you'll find in my portfolio. So not 'everybody' has a car illustration in their portfolio...

Maybe it's a bloke thing? I mean we stick posters of cars up in our bedrooms and stuff as Teenagers so who knows. Sigmund Freud probably had a theory but lets not go there!!.

It's not necessarily a guy thing, I did a car once. I admit I did it as a gift for my husband though...

It was a learning and practice experience for me as well.

Personally I neither too much interested in cars, but looks beautiful in vector drawings. And if someone for example dreams about a lamborghini to modelize, the first step is going to get the official "frame" somehow so the visible lines of that model?

you mean like a dream car ??

Not my favorite thing to draw do but I have done a few cars before. it is probably popular because you can make your car look photo realistic.