Last week at the park, I was in the mood to paint a motorcycle. I wasn't exactly sure which type of motorcycle. I after a quick image search, I decided to paint a Kawasaki-ish 80s bike. I thought it was sporty, but also a good excuse to incorporate different materials.
A few weeks ago, I went to the graffiti park and spotted a couple of friends. They invited me to paint in a spot thats front and center. One idea had in mind was to sketch some "industrial design" arrows. I started out loose and wispy, and then worked my way up to something defined with nice contrast. It was definitely fun to work on!
I wanted to create a digital sketch, after seeing how pen and marker has its limitations. With a digital sketch, you can more effectively depict details and materials. This design incorporates a body thats a more simple, classic round shape. The inner face takes elements from Cartier's "Skeleton" series, in which the mechanism is visible. The numbers are a structural element with a brushed finish, contrasting with the shiny chrome finish of the body. This sketch took a good amount of time to render out. Fortunately, I was talking to my friend while working. This sketch was a combination of Corel Painter and Photoshop.
Today, I helped my friend with her sketching by doing some overlays. Its pretty fun being able to discuss my thought process and point out how to draw car in perspective. I've showed how I like to draw through, section lines, and being able to loosen up. I may need to draw more cars in the future!
I've put off posting this due to a crazy past few weeks! A couple weeks ago at the graffiti park, I decided to paint a Japanese style robot. I'm very pleased with the results.
A few days ago, I was pretty stumped on what I was going to sketch. After talking with a friend, she recommended that I should draw "Christian Louboutin" heels. I wasn't sure who Christian Louboutin was and I never drawn heels before, so I thought I would give it a try. The first page on top, was a little unsuccessful. With the second and third pages, I felt more comfortable drawing feet and shoes. I really enjoyed doing these sketches and may plan on doing some more later!
I really enjoyed this sketchwars topic, which was to sketch the A10 Warthog jet with traditional medium. I did two sketches in my moleskine sketchbook and the last sketch was drawn on larger A3 marker paper. These interpretations of the A10 Warthog are a little bit more futuristic and "brutal" looking.
This one was sketched on an iPad with Procreate. I really like the looseness of this sketch as well as playing around with the texture brushes to get the water effect.
An athletic robot for sketchwars. Hes either doing a jump kick or a dance move :P
I felt like I needed to re-visit the graffiti wall. I really liked last weeks sketchwars entry, which is why I decided to use that design for the wall.
Last weeks topic was to sketch an alien. I did a fairly quick sketch on my iPad with Procreate. I decided to make an amphibian-like alien based on a tree frog. For some added character, I made him a bit hipster-ish with his low slung jeans and prominent belt buckle.
One of my friends requested a logo for the San Antonio District Dental Society. She requested that the logo should contain elements of San Antonio as well as include purple, a color associated with dentistry. The final direction features a circular badge design with a tooth set against the background of the San Antonio skyline.
I was talking to a friend at a party last Friday about doing some sort of exploded view at the graffiti park. The next day, I decided that I was going to do a robot. This was a lot of fun and I now feel more comfortable with linework. With this painting, I wanted the various robot components to come together to form a spray painting robot.
A couple weekends ago, some friends were in town and I suggested a couple of places to hang out. One of those places is the HOPE Outdoor Gallery. I brought some paint with me and decided to paint a Spitfire fighter plane. I really liked that sketch I did a while back and thought that it would translate well into graffiti. I'm really pleased with how it turned out and enjoyed having good company.
The head of the Cleveland Institute of Art ID department asked the alumni to produce sketches for a time capsule in honor of our respected teacher, Richard Fiorelli. Fiorelli is retiring this year after being a longtime faculty member. He's taught many great designers that I look up to.
I had Fiorelli for perspective drawing class and learned a lot from him. What I've learned from that class became the foundation for my techniques that lead to my career in industrial design. In honor of Fiorelli, I decided to produce a ballpoint sketch of graffiti letters set to a single point perspective. Its a little looser and not too labored, which is what he preferred. I made a few mistakes, but I'm very pleased with this sketch and I hope Fiorelli likes it too!
The topic for this weeks sketchwars contest is helicopters. I decided to do a more modern version of the Cobra helicopter from the Vietnam war. I thought the form of that helicopter was nice and sculptural, yet aggressive. This was sketched with the iPad Pro using Procreate.
I was actually surprised to see that last weeks piece remained as intact as I saw it. Usually, murals get painted over fairly quickly.
I really enjoyed doing a car last time and was in the mood to do another. A photographer that documents whats happening at the park really enjoyed the loose sketch before it was colored. What I thought was really neat about that sketch was how the graffiti was able to show through the car sketch.
With the next mural, I wanted to have the cars "paint" be the graffiti that I was painting over. The first car was more modern and sporty. I wanted the next car to be more cartoony, which is why I went with the Ambassador. Its an iconic Indian design thats been around for 60 years or so. As I was painting, it drew a lot of attention from the Indian observers at the park. Overall, I'm very pleased with this piece.
I recently got an iPad Pro and started sketching with the pencil and the Procreate software. The first attempt was a little rough, but this second attempt was a lot more successful. Procreate feels very natural and I really enjoy the pencil to paper feeling the iPad delivers.
Now the next step will be to see if I can create a well polished render. I'll get to this later.
As usual, there was great work at the graffiti park. I wanted to try something else besides robots, so I decided to attempt to draw a car with spraypaint. It was a lot more challenging than expected! It was difficult to work on a larger scale, and draw consistent lines that are more than 5 feet long, but I think I've made it work. The design itself is a little safe, but the overall painting was successful. Next Sunday, I'll like another go at this.
This is my take on a modern version of a Mopar muscle car. I was really drawn to the the Barracuda and its toothy grill. I was also very drawn to the strong graphic breakups within the hood and side graphics. I also included LED projector headlights that allow air to flow through them, like the Bugatti Chiron. Overall, I wanted something mean and green.
