YouTube Action. Nice head, bud.

It's been a while since anything exciting has happened, artistically, which explains the lack of posting. But, today I have 2 videos up on YouTube.

The first, is a SketchBook promotional video for which I provided all of the sketch work and acted. If its hard to decipher what the product is, think toast and espresso in one convenient package.



Second is a sketch of a character named Vince I have been drawing for almost 10 years now.
Again, this is being used as a Sketchbook promo, presenting tools and techniques for SketchBook 2009, which is to be released on Tuesday.


This one was sped up around 2000% to keep the video short. The actual illustration took just over an hour. Early morning pace.

I'm heading off to Orlando tomorrow morning to attend Photoshop World working again at the wacom booth, demonstrating Sketchbook. Yet, again. Hopefully I'll return with some decent work to pin up. And also a handful of job offer. :P

Digital Painting Tutorial.

I just got an AliasStudio tutorial posted on AliasDesign. It's a pretty standard automotive sketch with the obligatory female model adding to the composition. Turns out that it is the featured tutorial for the month, even though there are 2 other ones that blow me out of the water. Here is the link, and a sample image.

http://aliasdesign.autodesk.com/learning/tutorials/details/Digital%20Painting_133056/

Snowed In

So we got some major snow again today. Haven't seen piles like this since we were building sweet snow forts and tanks way back in the early 90s.

I got a chance to sit down and take a good look through Cosmic Motors, an art and design book from the mind of Daniel Simon. If you are at all interested in design, cars, babes, or sci-fi, then this book is worth every penny. Unbelievable talent, on a similar level as Syd Mead.

Anyway, enough praise for this guy. But check it out.
Here are some images from his website http://www.danielsimon.net/ and an article from aliasdesign.autodesk.com.

*Unable to post images currently, so here is the trailer for the book.

This was to be the 'cover' image for the March issue of Desktop Engineering Magazine. I now know that there are no covers for Desktop Engineering magazine. I cannot take credit for the 3D elements of this image, as it was sourced from Autodesk internal material. I created the render though (the driver's side of the front end)

The article, which we were informed would be Autodesk exclusive on conceptual design, was a combination of efforts from software types and designers from all over. I did get one image up there though, but being so large, it looked like garbage in reduced format. Oh well, maybe next time.

So to give these images a second shot, here they are:Another image depicting teh use of Showcase. Again, credit for the model of the go-cart does not belong to me. But I took care of the rendering in Showcase and dropped it into a Sketchbook Pro sketch.
This piece was completed for the AliasDesign site as a banner, but it was submitted as a filler.
Not too proud of these guys, but at least they weren't published! A re-working of a sketch I did, apparently before I could draw, of the collaboration between designer and engineer. Mis-shaped heads.
Finally, is another image that was done for other reasons. This made an appearance during the mainstage keynote at Autodesk University in Las Vegas last November.

Here are the links to the article. In 2 parts,
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaagtm.htm
http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaahdm.htm

Monday. Boring day at work fixing up Powerpoints for people in Detroit.

Thought I'd post a couple things I came across the other day. I did these 2 a couple years ago, while at school.
Ripofftron. I had just been informed that they would be making a Transformers movie. Needless to say I got pretty excited.This was created on one of the many interesting nights in first year residense.
This was a second year project that got a second life as part of an upcoming article about design.
I'm still waiting to hear if I am getting the cover of Desltop Engineering Magazine.
I'd post the images, but I don't want to get into any legal battles just yet.
Some coupe sketch I did a while back, inspired by the art of Daniel Simon.

Snoopin around on the internet.

Sick in a different way today, I was able to get myself propped in front of the computer. Managed to dig up some videos and images of some of my work in the States.

These both happened to be from CES 2008 in Las Vegas. I'm still looking for clips from:

Siggraph 2007 - San Diego, CA
Autodesk University 2007 - Las Vegas, NV
MacWorld 2008 - San Francisco, CA




This came from the Core77 gallery, with the caption: "CES 2008: Cintiq 12WX, Wacom brought in an ID sketching master to demonstrate the Cintiq 12WX tablet." I don't know who they were talking about, but that sure looks like my hand.

Who is that guy in the black shirt drawing that typical 3/4 perspective orange sports car? The first half of this video features the new tablet from Wacom, which I was promoting. I'm working on the same drawing that is pictured above.

So these two posts don't really show that I was there for 4 days with no breaks. (Aside from leaving ealry on Thursday to Check out AEE 2008. Great move, no joke.) Maybe I'll post a couple pics from that show, if you're lucky.