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How To: Car Sketch Interior With Josh Reed (Pt 3)

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 [...]

How To: Car Sketch Interior With Josh Reed (Pt 2)

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 [...]

How To: Car Sketch Interior With Josh Reed

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 [...]

How To: Off Road Vehicle Step 4

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.

How To: Off Road Vehicle Step 3

In this edit I mainly revise in order to add detail. My ellipse skill is bad so I created tires in photoshop. I chose to condense my rear end design and buff up my back tires. I paid strong attention to blocking off all my surfaces to create a more tangible sketch. Tangible sketches are [...]

How To: Off-Road Vehicle Step 2

From Josh Reed: In this first stage of revisions I really needed to understand what’s going on surface wise. I sketch without the roll cage so I could work my perspective in right. The rear wrap around gave me problems so I played with the styling on that a little. The middle sketch was a [...]

Introducing Josh: New Contributor

Hello Everyone! My name is Josh, I’m a Native Detroiter, and I’m currently enrolled at College for Creative Studies. I’m a  Industrial Design major focusing in product design. Even though I’m in product I have love for vehicle design and all things a like. My background before Industrial design is illustration and commercial arts. I like [...]