In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the daily sketches posted over on sketch-a-day.com. This weeks sketches include a watch, lots of robots, computer speakers and even a few spaceships. Check em out after the jump.

This week I had the chance to visit my old college and man was it fun. Of course, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to stop by the bookstore and check out the awesome selection of pens, paper, chalk and all the yummy goodness that any artist could want to get their grubby hands on. [...]

Ok in this section I photocopied my sketch and made a 2 inch x 3 inch copy of my sketch to pick a direction in which my light source will come from. I rendered it out some to get a feel for what I want my contrast to be. This mini sketch rendering will serve [...]

In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the daily sketches posted over on sketch-a-day.com. This weeks sketches include a bike helmet, cake mixers, cars, and even a sewing machine. Check em out after the jump. Sewing Machine:

So at this point my perspective issue Is in check for the most part, but graphically things are disjointed. Now that I understand where things go and the thickness of objects, I can go back and start to relate areas with similar graphic break ups to make the sketch look more consistent and cohesive. I [...]

So This week I decided to pick a interior sketch from my sketchbook. The main things  I battled with was perspective problems. Its natural to put a curve or jester to a line while you sketch. Gestural lines are great for sketchbooks but don’t translate well in technical drawings. I plan to convert my gestural [...]

If you haven’t already heard, Apple announced this thing they’ve been working on for some time – a tablet, the iPad. Well, part of that announcement was the face that there’d be no flash on the iPad – a big deal for some, but I couldn’t care less. In any case, part of all this [...]

In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the daily sketches posted over on sketch-a-day.com. This weeks sketches include robots, trash cans, video cameras and even a shoe. Check em out after the jump. See the full sized images after the jump:

This is my last sketch/render before I push my final rendering. At this point my surfacing is clear, direction of lighting, and perspective, yet, everything is still a little loose and expressive. I try to maintain the overall feel of the initial gesture sketch through the process.

I’m in the middle of writing up a big post for the site with some thoughts on the sketch process. In the mean time, I found this really cool article with some thoughts on sketching that speak dorectly to what I consider to be the heart and purpose of a sketch – communicating ideas. Here’s [...]