Doodles on Cheap Paper

I've been sketching a lot the past few days, trying to consciously improve my skills, and also just doodling a lot.  I have a lot of these sheets of crappy brown greyish paper that I just draw and draw and draw on.  They're too big to scan, so I took some pictures!  I've been drawing mostly cars these few days.  I really really cannot draw cars well, but I've always wanted to and they're great for practicing elipses!  I didn't grow up in a culture of cars, so I barely know what a car looks like from heart.  I copied a lot of car sketches from various places like IDsketching, before actually trying my own.

Doodlin'

Vroom vroom!

Phone / TV remote..?

This car was actually traced.  I needed to understand the shape of real cars first.

Check this guy out.

Sketches

I've been leafing through some of my old sketches.  Some of them aren't bad, but some of them I cringe to look at now.  I wonder if I've improved or uh....de-proved?

IDcreatures, visual communication, sketching tutorials website

Recently I've started collaborating with my friend Karla Soria on her website idcreatures.com.  Basically its a site with both free tutorials and paid content that helps designers develop their visual communication techniques.  So far I have done two videos for idcreatures, and expect to be doing more in the future.  Here is the first one I did, basically doing a rough sketch of a men's body wash bottle.  Now, I don't claim my sketching to be great, but I'm sure this will help some people out.  Check out idcreatures.com for more awesome tutorials by Karla.  I expect the site to become a useful resource for design students and hobbyists alike.

Sketch Practice

My courses during my semester abroad have not really required that much sketching, and I feel my skills starting to slip slightly, so today I decided to get back into regular sketching.  Usually when I draw outside a project I'm at a loss as to what to draw, so I looked at the back topics of idsketching.com's weekly sketch challenge and picked a few to start with.  You can tell the lines aren't that straight and the confidence is lacking a bit.  I've always been a nervous sketcher...but perhaps with practice I'll get there...

Boomboxes/iPod speakers and such.

An external hard drive playfully inspired by an iceberg.

Ramazzotti Update

Here are some updates on my project to design a lounge for the Italian liquor company Ramazzotti.  I left off when the larger class had split into smaller groups, and here is the development process of our group's concept.

My Contribution to our concept was an idea of modular, multipurpose furniture.

I wanted the furniture to have a modern feel while having an element of class. 

The idea for the furniture stuck, and I refined it to fit into our final concept.

We paid a lot of attention to how our lounge concept would be laid out.

A 1:10 model for the first iteration of our concept.

Our next iteration, with refined furniture models.

A small part of our second iteration, showing how the layout creates a small group space.

More to come soon!