I really love the idea behind this stylus for capacitive touch screens. the MORE/REAL Stylus uses the existing body of your favorite and familiar pens with a capacitive cap to give you a familiar feeling while sketching. I’m really looking forward to more thoroughly using these. I supported the project – Check it out and [...]

Ellipses can be one of the most challenging parts of sketching. Not only is getting the right degree and perspective tough, but getting a smooth consistent line is a whole other story. Fortunately JESTER, one of our awesome users in the forums came up with a neat way to show how ellipses work. By simply [...]

Old School Viscom by Jason White

I happened to check in on the fellas over at Simkom.com. It has continued to be an on-going site of sketch inspiration and awesomeness! Right now they are featuring a sketch contest to create some hotness around snowmobiles. The person that creates the coolest snowmobile sketches will be featured in CARR magazine and have an [...]

IDSA Boston @ MASS Art Recently I was invited by IDSA Boston to host a Visual Communication and Sketching workshop with local designers and students alike. I had a great time working with the crew there. Initially I was slated to go for only about 4 hours, but we were having so much fun, I [...]

The Hot Rod Art Book – Masters of Chicken Scratch is a book by Dwayne Vance – a graduate of Art Center College of design , a former designer at Hot Wheels, and now oner of his own company “Future Elements” – that showcases the artwork and technique of several insanely talented artists including John [...]

I saw these a while back in 2007 and some of you may have seen this before, however, I thought I’d share. Physicist and self titled Kinetic Sculptor Theo Jansen of strandbeest.com creates stunning intricate wind powered “creatures” mecha, what have you. It’s mesmerizing watching them move and I find it inspiring. Love the detail and love [...]

Here’s an interesting concept from MIT’s media lab called “Beyond”. The sketches are pretty low fi, but the concept it downright interesting.The system uses a collapsible pen to essentially extrude or punch into the third dimension on the two dimensional surface. It’d be cool to see this with more resolution, refinement, pressure sensitivity, and all [...]

I’m on vacation and writing from the beach on my iPad but in read about this and just had to post about it! Ten One design, makers of the pogo sketch stylus many people use to sketch on their ipads, has just come up with a way to enable ores sure sensitivity on the iPad. [...]

If you’re like me and love to sketch with pencil on occasion, it can be very hard to do while in an impromptu setting with traditional prismacolor or other pencils. You’d need a sharpener and a bevy of pencils if you want to keep sketching with a reasonably sharp pencil point. Here’s the tip: If [...]