While sitting @ DMV for 2+ hours I had lots of time to doodle. Star Wars always seems to come to mind, so I sketched out some of my favorites! Only used an extra fine point sharpie, on recycled bond paper that I found @ DMV.
YO! everyone. I try and draw trans every now and then. Its a fun and good way to get some mileage in. Inspiration was Anthony Printis is a few of these drawings. Especially the truck. Drew that when I was at bae working on the JLTV.
hey folks, it’s been awhile so here’s a sketch and rendering of an alien in homage to the new aliens vs. predator game coming out today. i looked at a bunch of alien images and made up my own composition.
i decided to encompass what i would do with markers in photoshop. it’s a very quick and basic render and all you really need to know is how to use the paint brush, eraser, selection tools, and layers. this took a little over an hour.
scanned in my sketch. copied the background layer and made it its own and set it to “multiply” so that the color layers in the next images can go underneath it with the lines still there. kind of like a render sandwich.
set in ONE color under-layer (below the multiplied sketch layer). used the selection tool to select the areas i want to color first. hopefully your lineweight is strong enough so selecting won’t be a pain.
created another layer and added a medium (darker) color to add contrast. here’s a neat trick i learned at work. go to the first color layer, by using the rectangular selection tool select the area of what you want to select, then set it to the “Move” tool then press left and then right on your arrow keys. magically, your color layer is selected to the utmost accuracy. pretty neat right?
and finally adding a final layer with dark tones to give it even more contrast. i have 3 color layers by now and i just messed with the opacity on each layer to get the contrast i want overall.
enjoy! - alessandro
It has been ONE whole year since our first post here @ Lineweights! We want to thank everyone who takes valuable time out of their day to check out some of our work. We have big things planned for 2010, so please stay tuned and hope that you continue to enjoy Lineweights! Happy Birthday Lineweights!
Recently, Jon and I were asked to teach the Visulaization 1 class @ SJSU Industrial Design. It is something we both aspiring to do someday in the future…and that future is now. We are now 3 weeks into the class and the students seem to be responding really well, and bring a positive attitude to class everyday. Hopefully from their point of view we are able to connect, communicate, educate and inspire. I felt like the Circles Inside Squares demo was a great spot to start with our new posts for the class (as several other components that we have taught already appear here on LW’s). Enjoy!
First, sketch this out on a sheet of paper, cut it out and fold it up into a 6 sided cube.
Now, using your cube…sketch out what you see. Play with Perspective Views, View Angle, Eye Level of the cube…and then freehand the ellipses on each showing side of the cube!
Random sketch while i was in class.
Some quick stuff before the semester starts. Still have a few robots I have to get out of my head since the last project. Drawing some boxes to practice that perspective. I was on the Caltrain up to San Francisco and decided to draw a train. Board drinking a coffee and had my watch to draw.
Sketching random things you see or imagine and composing them into one sketch, can be a pretty interesting way to spice up your content. This is a combination of both things I came across, like the older gentleman on the right, the hand gun, and the city in the background…the skull, rocket ships and monkey in the space suit are from a Digital Art magazine. Had a bunch of fun with this sketch, hell…who doesn’t like drawing monkeys?
Muji fine point pen, sharpie fine point, on Brown Paper
One most important thing about sketching I remind people are they are your personal notes to something that may become refined later on. I think a lot of people are apprehensive when it comes to sketching because what they draw doesn’t look exactly what they saw or what they imagine. Bringing and idea to completion takes time. Even the great masters took the time to plan and figure out how to get to the final piece of their work.
Sketching is a lot like note taking. You want to take as much as you can so you can go back to it for reference. You’ll most likely do more sketches after that to refine you idea. Below is a sketch of a droid I thought up quickly in my head. All the lines are merely suggestions of robotic and mechanical parts, nothing very specific, but just a quick and general idea. I can go back to this sketch to refine areas I want to later on to finalize the final idea of the droid. When sketching don’t draw the the details, make a suggestion of them, quick and fast.
Ok. So I’ve been guilty at times for not bringing a sketchbook with me. Sometimes we forget or we’re just plain lazy. Make it more a habit to carry it with you. You mind is always teeming with ideas and when you’re out there, many things will visually impact you and invoke some sort of idea or inspiration.
Today was one of those days where having a sketchbook came in really handy. I was at Borders meeting with a couple of people when I spotted a young gentleman who have been serving in the Army. He was wearing this really kick ass army coat. I never knew that the Army issued such awesome threads.
Was checking out Spencer’s new blog…sketch a day…and it is so inspiring and something we should all be shooting for, sketching everyday…whatever it is, just keep on pounding the mileage…by the way, if you haven’t picked up Mechanika by Doug Chiang
…….please do so immediately!!!
Looking around in my Burne Hogarth Book again. He’s Good!
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