Our friends over at Core 77 are sponsoring a one hour design competition based on ideation sketching. They want to see the most sketches you can possibly crank out on the topic of your choice in 60 minutes. This would be a great way to get some summer practice in before school is back in [...]

So it’s always good to try new things and push your design skills. I thought it might be good for me to try and sketch out a toy of some sort to get myself into a different style/mood and to learn new things. I ended up doing just a basic little toy cell phone for [...]

Here are some cool sketches/renderings done by Gousman Vadim and Maxim Shershnev over at Cardesign.ru. There was definitely a lot of wonderfully inspiring work and great concepts to look at in the end. It is always good for me to look at work like this and study the technique or style…maybe even trying to replicate [...]

Just a reminder to be grinding out sketches and concepts for the 72 hour kit competition. We are giving away a really sweet prize (Intuos 4 drawing tablet) so work hard! If you have any questions check out the competition area of the forum. It would probably be a good idea to check out the [...]

Well the Kamaz Competition over at Cardesign.ru is nearly dunzo. If you are participating, I think there might be a few hours left to upload your work still. I thought I’d post some of the work I did for it here for all to see. I wish I would have spent more time on it [...]

Here is some great work by Justin Oaksford who just finished his 2nd term of Entertainment Design at Art Center in Pasedena, CA. I saw his work and instantly became a fan. I had a chance to ask him about his workflow:
“It’s a good idea to sketch your reference, as you can memorize more details about it. Then I [...]

So I just wanted to post an update and show an overlay sketch of the thumbnail video. I wanted to make sure you could see that it is possible to go in and continue to work out some of your thumbs while keeping them loose and interesting. This sketch was done by simply going over [...]

Here is a little video I prepared for a quick gestural type of sketching that is good for an ideation process. This type of sketching works well for me when I need to sketch something more complex. It allows you to cheat a bit by just sort of indicating where things may go without having [...]

I am always interested in seeing amazing sketches and art from wherever they might come. Here are some awe-inspiring concepts from the portfolio of James Clyne. Click on the link and check out art from cool blockbuster movies such as X-men, Minority Report, Transformers, Star Trek and more! Enjoy!

I had posted that the Kamaz competition was almost over…lucky for me some of you viewers are more on top of things than me! I had been thinking that the contest ended on June 1st instead of July 1st! So anyway, One month left so get going!