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!
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!
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
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!
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 
The soundtrack for the Lineweights REVOLUTION has come!
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Our boy Tom Morello has teamed up with MC/Activist/Artist/Front man of The Coup…Boots Riley. Morello representing the SoCal, Boots from the mean streets of Oakland representing NorCal…join together to spread the word of uprising, change and revolution. Street Sweeper Social Club is….”more than a band, it’s a social club.” Love the idea of looking at MUSIC as more than the “individual band”, but more about the SOCIAL group it creates. Thats the same reason why Lineweights is online! Enjoy the boombox-tommy gun-earshot!
I wasn’t lucky enough to have taken the same class that Jon, Alex, Dan and Cres took when they sketched out those dope “creature sketches” that Jon just posted. I was fortunate enough to have the very same teacher throughout SJSU ID; Prof. John McClusky. The connection that many of us had with him, was something that fueled the fire to strive beyond the norm. Good, well informed design was only one of the many passions we picked up from John….Movies, Concept/Entertainment Design, Concept Artist, Sci-Fi, Infinite Futures and much more. This sketch would be very ….Seussian…in one of Johns great qrit’s! Thanks so much for the many inspirations John!
I sketched this around the same time JC sketched this creatures…guess it was one of our many late night sketch jam sessions! Dude, how about that for our Lineweights “events”…Sketch Jam, Sketch Jam…
Dr. Seuss has always been one of my favorites and very influential as a young kid trying to learn to draw…Thanks Theodor Seuss Giesel!
Enjoy!
We wanted to share with everyone the wonderful work that everyone that came out on June 14 @ the SF Zoo. Sketching animals that are moving around, at a pretty good distance can be quite a challenge…but so many people did such fantastic work! Also, check out the photos that our 2 wonderful photographers shot all throughout the day! Thanks again all, and please share it with every person on this big happy planet you know!
Oh, before I forget….would anyone be interested in getting this work in a MINI BOOK form?
Who didnt get a copy of our first SKETCH BOOK? Hit us up, we will hook you up with one! They turned out awesome Jon!
These sketches were done in loving memory of Michael Joseph Jackson, the King of Pop. The gathering of people I see on TV, the Internet and in every other area of life…speaks so strongly to the fragility and love we all share as humans. Micheal stood for much more than music and dancing to so many people….unity, peace, happiness and equality…(the music and dancing did help thou . Even with all the difficult periods in life he faced, people still stood by him. The joy and memories he brought to so many people across the globe will surely be missed but also remembered. I still remember getting my copy of Thriller, which was my first fill lenght album. I listened to it over and over and over… Thanks for the memories MJ, and peace to the Jackson family.
Hey LW’s viewers. Just wanted to say a big thank you to all that came out to the Zoo yesterday. The day was a great success, and we look forward the next event (probably next month)! We will be posting more details and some feedback from the day later this week. Thanks again, and be on the look out for more events to come!
Here are just a couple quick sketches from the day. Enjoy!
Rest in peace David Carradine. Like Jon mentioned in his tribute sketch, we lost a huge inspiration to many and a hero to all. I decided to work this sketch in a demo format, sketching and scanning at each stage to show the progress. I used just simple trace with black verithin-prisma. You will be missed…
Step 1: This initial sketch is done with basic straight lines.
(A). You start by breaking the page down with lines that extend off the page. These lines are the dominate composition lines, that help to dictate the main shapes and force of the sketch.
(B). Next you use Medium length lines (built off of the extended lines from A.) to help rough some of the bigger shapes, head, hands body are usually roughly formed.
(C). Using smaller lines, you help complete some of the rough shapes and help to begin the detail elements of the sketch.
Step 2: Using the sketch from Step 1 as an underlay, here we begin a new sketch by blocking out the basic shapes. Circles, triangles, cross section lines and roughly blocked out lines.
Step 3: Using the sketch from Step 2 as an underlay, we start a new sketch using the underlay as the “framework” to hang the more gestural/ expressive line work. Here we are looking to shape most of the final details, begin to build hierarchy and contrast in the line quality and look for value shifts. As the building of line work continues, its important to sketch “inside” the lines…using the cross section lines as reference, you can shape areas like the cheek, nose, mouth, eyes, etc.
Step 4: Here we have taken the sketch from Step 3, a little further with shading, cross hatching, feathering, etc. Using different techniques to help build in value, keeps the sketch alive and dynamic. Working with those different uses of the pencil, you can sepreate skin from cloth, etc. Finishing the light details on the face and hands, help to finialize the sketch. The last few details, I like to rough in a background, to help the portrait step off the page. Hope you can get something from this technique I was taught in a Figure Drawing/Painting class. Enjoy!
Hello all,
Below is a quick update to the SF Zoo Sketch Crawl Day! I added the Top Ten things to know going into the day. It might be a good call to print this guy out…its ment to fit on a 8.5×11, so warm those inkjets up! Look forward to seeing you all on Sunday!
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Sketched these out while working over at the Maker Faire last weekend. Love the Maker Faire, its like a steam/cyberpunk party mixed with a circus! This was the 4th year I have gone/worked at the Maker Faire, and it was a lot of fun this year!
Hello all,
Lineweights would like to invite you to a sketch crawl @ the SF Zoo on June 14th. This event is open to all, so please spread the word and bring friends (help us guerilla market this, print and pass out the flyers:) ! We need you to RSVP as soon as possible to reserve discount tickets for entry into the Zoo. Email us at lineweights@gmail.com to RSVP. We plan on sketching from 12-5pm, and just like the premise of Lineweights…this event is very simple, for everyone to grow/learn/sketch together. To follow, we will meet at the Riptide (right around the corner) for cocktail hour. We hope to see you then!
Here is post #2 of the NYC Series I am posting. In this edition, I looked through tons of photos that I took walking the streets of Manhattan. There is Street Art/ Graffiti/ Murals, all over NYC. Its pretty easy to see how the Art Scene in NYC flurishes, so much of it is out in the open and for all to see. There seemed to be a trend amongst alot of the graffiti I came across in NYC, more thoughtfulness and playfulness. The monkey sketch on the Left is painted on a Childrens Learning Center (grantted its on one of those metal roll up doors…the childrens learning center was in the Projects). There is alot more inspiration to come for the NYC Series so check on back! Enjoy!
This is post 2 of the Rock Star series of portrait paintings. Steven Tyler was painted for my very close cousin Catrina, who has the painting hanging in her home. As well, I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to hang the first print of this painting in Steven Tyler’s dressing room back in 2002 @ Shoreline Amphitheater. Prior to him going on stage he called my house and I spoke with him for several minutes! Really him! He called to thank me for the gift ( I gave him the print that hung in the dressing room), so he now owns print 1. I thought it was a friend playing a joke, but no, he said….”this is f***ing Steven Tyler man!” I then spoke with his band manager several time after that, regarding Tyler buying the original from me. We planned to meet up when they were in town, I kept in contact with them for a few years, but have since lost contact. Hopefully he still has the print…I like to think its hanging in his house somewhere. If your watching our Lineweights page Steven Tyler…hit me up! Enjoy.
Here is the first sketch in a series of sketches that I am working on, based on photographs I took in New York City. We only had 4 days in NYC Manhattan, so sketching time was limited. But I did take a ton of photos, capturing little scenes I wanted to sketch out. This one is the beginning of the NYC Library…scenes all over town like this made me realize why NYC was such a huge inspiration to Comic Book artist since the very beginning. This one is for you Gotham.
Here is one of my paintings, from a collection of old school Rock and Roll musicians. Jimi Hendrix has always been a big inspiration to me, and this painting captures that. I have many more that I will be posting, so please check back. As well, if you are intested in getting your own copy of “I dont live today”- I can mail you a 5×7 post card, if you provide me with your address. Hope you enjoy!
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