CDA Week 3 - Vehicles/Mechs mars caravan final

Caravan to transport goods for the future colonization of Mars.

Overall process

Final line work

Color studies

Final rendering. Markers, Prisma, Gel pen

I don't know what week it is i'm about to go out

Car rendering progress:


Based on this:


Environment stuff

CDA Week 2 - Vehicles

Tried the Doug Chiang aproach and it worked out sort of okay. I ended up overworking it a bit, and the form is too balanced compared to what I had in mind (more like a gorilla proportion with much longer/spindly legs).

ACAN WK 6 - comps + chardes wk2 classwork

Compositions need work. Messed some stuff up (like the Dyson vaccuum shadow messed up by the callout at the bottom. Still am not really good at compositions. Damnit. I thought they were pretty good too but Tony corrected me. Also Got a comment that I should fade my shadows out. Probably try that in vehicles stuff.



Doing studies of animals from preserved statue things, and then giving them character. Hard stuff.

ACCD Week... 5.5? Comps

Composition exercises - 4 items of hair care product, kitchenware product, branded/redesigned, money shot

Paul Mitchell hair care - tall bottle, medium bottle, jar, tube

OXO good grips kitchenware

FYI that's a whisk, peeler, mandolin, and chopper (SLAP CHOP)

CDA week 1 - Char/env

I suck so bad at looking at a person and caricaturizing them.





+ Environmental sketching stuff.

CDA Week 1 HW: Vehicles + Fig

Mars caravan to transport goods for colonization in the future.







I should probably do more but I need to do other homework so I don't fall behidn. Maybe if I have more time tomorrow I'll do some.

Man I gotta get an effing scanner...

Figure drawing.. basic stuff memorizing proportions and etc. Meh.

Week.. 5? CDA report + finished how tos

CDA classes are sweet. I had character design last night and we drew from a live model of a guy in a pirate costume, trying to capture his character. Fun stuff.

Here are my other 4 (failed) how-tos... jesus i'm terrible. Comps next week.




Crapload of homework now. Gotta do some vehicles and mechs today and some figure drawing stuff/character tomorrow.

week 4.5 - more how to, figdraw/vehicles

Had figure drawing and vehicles and mechs. Teachers are both pretty damn baller. Figure drawing teacher really knows how to teach. Also the model was top notch. Really nice poses.

Vehicles homework is to design a caravan to transport goods to colonies during the future colonization of Mars that seats 1-2 pilots. Really broad. I'll get started on that Thursday/Friday.

Figure drawing is just proportions/memorizing stuff. I'll also do that later this week.

Still working on how-tos. I really messed this one up. Bad color choice for arrows so it doesn't pop. Sad :[. Well, 4 more to get better at rendering and stuff.


If you're free, check out Andy Chung's badass marker renderings for Terminator and Aliens: http://www.acsketch.blogspot.com/ Really sick stuff.

week 4.1 - how tos

New assignment for tony is How Tos. 6 pages, minimum 7 steps, rendered 14x17. Explains how to do something. We did something like this briefly at CMU.


I'm so bad at choosing colors. Taking a picture of it messed up the colors even more. Yay.

CDA starts tomorrow, I'm so nervous.

Week 4, chicken leg fail, thumbnails, and stylizing project

I was in a super rush and made a stupid martini glass that the teacher said looked like a chicken leg. The original one was way better.

The next project in product design is a styling exercise where we have to develop a new way to stylize something that is elegant, heavy-duty, whimsical, or sporty via some non-functional 6"x6"x6" sculptures. I'm going to die.

Thumbnails for tonight's homework:

CDA classes start this weekend, I'm psyched (but my wallet is not, and neither is my body because I gotta bike 2 miles with giant newsprint pads and drawing boards). Tonight in advanced sketching is composition exercises which are supposed to be a bietch.