Pretty straight up…time to draw a Smart Car! They have such cool little personalities, it makes it easy to capture the character like feel that these cars have. Used a ultra fine point Sharpie and Pentel Sign Pen to bold up the out side lines. Keep it loose and free… Enjoy!
been awhile since ive picked up a good magazine and cut loose sketching and getting inspired and what not…James Jean is definitely one of my favorite illustrators…i just needed a break, needed to breath a little, this is what i like to do from time to time to warm up and loosen up (oh yeah, dom’s warm ups are good too)
Curvilinear Forms can be some of the toughest things to sketch in perspective, but when you nail it they can shine for you. This technique reaches back to my first Visualization class with Dave Fleming at San Jose States Industrial Design Dept. Follow each step, and you will learn to build 3D curvilinear forms on paper!
1. Perspective, Proportions and Connections: Sketch your initial box forms. Take a look at the proportions of the two boxes in relationship to each other (they are the major bodies of the object). Once you are happy with the proportions, connect the two boxes, and find the center line of both boxes.
2) Contour lines, Center lines, Radi and More: Use your sketch from step one asn an underlay to make the second sketch. Lightly ghost the key points from the original sketch (as visual reference). Start to “shape” the boxes into softer forms, paying attentions to the outside profile to maintain the correct perspective position of those curves. Use crossing contour lines to help describe to your eye how you see those new shapes. Add curves and Radi based off of those contour lines. Make sure that the center lines now live on both forms.
3) Final Shape, Details Texture and Preparation: Use the sketch from step 2 to help create your final shape. Adjust curves and contours to fit your design, always referencing your previous sketch. Place key details that play a big part in the design on the object, always looking to see if center lines/ contour lines hit those objects (this can help play up certain details). Always follow the surfaces you have built to make details more realistic. Add textures if necessary to separate forms, and the sketch is prepared for value and shading!
Enjoy!
Feeling tired and rusty? Been a while since you last sketched? Need a pick-me-up, that will get your marker started? Sketching warm ups are the best way to break that silence between your pen and paper. It will help your brain visualize your next move and learn to build confident lines. This technique shown here is most commonly taught at Art Center in Pasadena, and Scott Robertson being the biggest proponent! I threw on his DVD and did a little sketch warm ups.
Click on the photo to take you over to the full Sketch Warm Up, filed under Tutorials and Techniques page!
Finally back…sorry for the leave of absence but the vacation was much needed…we have tons of pics that eventually will go up as well as sketches…so, we were on a train from Madrid to Barcelona, Dan was fast asleep, Dick Cheney was sitting behind us and Albert was sitting across from me…i sketched this on my train ticket…
Wow…longtime no post…sorry we’ve been quite the busy bees @ work and haven’t had time to post…we’ve also been planning our Lineweights Europe trip…we’ll be going to visit Dan’s home country of Spain then going to Paris and lastly chilling in London with my cousins out there…and of course we’ll be sketching throughout, packing the moleskins with all sorts of random stuff
Anyways, I was in Vegas celebrating a close friend’s birthday and we went to watch circus de soleil: mystere, and it was the best show ever…i fell right in and chased the white rabbit and never looked back…when i got back to my hotel room i doodled some things i saw or thought i saw…
Hey guys! Just thought i would post the label I made for me and my friends beer that we brewed!
It is pirate themed beer!
Back before i started i.d. a was dabbling in illustration/animation, but never pursued it cuz i wasn’t up to par and lacked the self confidence to think i could make it into the program (SJSU has one of the best illustration/animation programs, as their graduates go on to work for ILM/Pixar/Disney/EA Sports/etc)
I took their intro to illustration class with one of the greatest instructors ever, John Clapp. He taught us 3 things that we would take to our graves: 1) Contrast is the meaning of life 2) Shadows are your friend 3) When in doubt, squint…
The following was one of my main projects, a photorealstic sketch using only dense charcoal and rubber kneaded eraser…we used a subtractive process where you start with a black base and then erase out the rendering, playing with contrast tone…I struggled so hard with this project and my final (a self portrait), as well as life drawing in general…
Some background on the photo i referenced, i forgot who the photographer was but i think was taken during the Great Depression of a farmer or field worker, he was blocking his face with his worn down hand, probably embarassed and distraught…i never finished this rendering, it was one of those work in progress projects, i gave it to my sister…
I was down at the SF Train Station the other day and sketched out all 3 different types of trains that run outta there… CalTrain, Muni and Freight. Trains are so huge that its really easy to see perspective lines (even thou some of mine are off), its great practice to help training your eye to visualize perspective lines.
Since its been a long while since my last post, I felt like I needed to get back to some of my basics to get the ball rolling again. Also its “back to school”time…it can be really helpful to warm up your school year with some of the basics you learned throughout art school. I threw on the first Syd Mead Gnomon tutorial video, and sketched along with him. http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/category/107/Syd-Mead
Took Bart yesterday (thankfully no strike went down) and sketched on the way to a conference/event by PeclersParis for trend/design/cultural stuff…here are some scribbles from the Bart ride and at the event…i like scribbling on the ride since it gets rough and forces you lose control and is unpredicatable as people are coming and going, sleeping and moving…good exercises…
just a bunch of purple stuff….super space calamari, a hulking helmet, kid up to no good, and the giant grape space ape (cygor one of my favorite spawn characters)
i have no idea…meandering i guess…does anyone remember Battle Beasts?…a panda zombie girl, don’t touch that, goldfish, pull the trigger already, bears, and brains…our european vacation isn’t coming quick enough, im thoroughly going insane…
from left to right…a smile (i think)…a man with a huge square chin, tough as nails…my friends just got a baby terrier, his name is Rocky…my little niece Asia (whom i drew the Repunzel sketches for), she’s a big inspiration…my other key inspiration, my baby sister, Stacy, who just got a job teaching English (i used the mechanical pencil she bought me for my birthday to draw this)…
Wow Dom! pulling out the old school ‘isht…well, i thought i posted these already, but i guess i never did…here are dan’s and my sketches of our beloved professor who would throw nebulous notions at you and shoot you down as we presented our lame concepts…we miss you magooboo, we’ll come visit you soon!
and here he is…the nebulous mooliger…he really really really hated star wars…
During many of our design studio classes, there was nothing more fun than sketching a caricature of people in the class. We had a really solid group of students moving through the Industrial Design program ahead of us…who helped to inspire the drive of Always Sketching …. One of our favorite subjects was our beloved teacher Tomasz Migurski @ SJSU ID. Here is one of the pages I found, rummaging through old sketches. I know you guys have more sketches (Jon, Alex, Dan and Kings!)…post’m up!
A quick thumb and refined thumb. I’m planing on taking it further.
In the series I am working on for all my younger cousins, this sketch (scanned in progress, not shown finished here) was done for my little cousin Sofie. She loves rivers, streams, waterfalls and cool hidden natural places. This composite sketch was done using The Art of Pocahontas as inspiration, its a large sketch…11×17, so I scanned it in 2 parts. I have 6 more sketches to go in the “Cousin’s series”, each one gets a sketch for their birthday this year 
Link to the turnaround video:
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?individual_id=191609&portfolio_id=2650896
I could say I’ve been busy which is partly true after getting a second job but, for the most part I have been lazy. And, looking at the time I could be spending on doing more creative things, I end up chosing something unproductive and unrewarding. Then I go into a cycle of regret and loathing that I question myself if I even have the passion to create anymore or if I was just looking for that steady job to pay my filthy habits. There are many books that have been read partially or have been unread, many drawings and sketchings that haven’t been finished, and many ideas that haven’t seen the light of day on paper. Perhaps all creative people go through this cycle of aspiration and laziness.
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