A Drawing A Day: Day 8

Managing to squeeze in sketches is tough, but I'm enjoying the challenge of doing something and getting it out to the internet. I don't know if anyone actually reads this blog at all, but the something thousand page views can't all be bots, surely?

This sketch is one of my favourites so far, and I' really like the form it takes. It's given me quite a lot of ideas for my next venture. My next venture is to start doing some work and setting up a shop in and selling from Etsy. I'm sure you'll hear about that in due course, when it starts to happen. This sketch was mostly inspired by my faceted gemstone sketch, and I wanted to turn it into something more designer-ly, and make it something useful. In this case, it's a lamp!

A Drawing A Day: Day 7

Sketching is getting a little harder each day, but such is the nature of this time that I'm working. I work at a small restaurant/theatre just down the road from where I live. The business in this place focuses and gets heavier around the Christmas period, and having time for other things can become quite taxing. Sketching is most likely going to fall apart directly after Christmas, but hopefully I will pick it up again as soon as possible.

Today's sketch is a very conceptual idea about a table which is inspired by a piece of crinkled paper. I'd love to be able to create a piece of furniture like this that has very subtle changes in the surface that might not be immediately obvious at first, but if one stands back could provide a strange light play across the surface. The slight variance in angles and shapes of the table could be an interesting talking point for users as well as a way of dividing the space between the users.

A Drawing A Day: Day 6

One of the things that I did this year was acquire a Wacom tablet, which I plan to make good use of this year trying out sketching and drawing digitally. One of the things that I really want to get into is the process of designing and drawing landscapes. I'm not a huge fan of characters, but I really love landscapes and cityscapes in concept art. They're something I really want to get better at, and achieve more in.

A simple sketch, this one, but I really wanted to just try out some things. I wanted to see how some shapes would translate into a city-like form.

A Drawing A Day: Day 5

I took a bit of a different route today, and decided to do something of a video game sort. I love the amount of effort that video game companies and film companies put into their weapon design, so I decided to try my hand at something. Aaaaand it looks like a nerf gun. I went way too over the top with it, and it doesn't look threatening at all. I think I'm going to give this another go at a later date, see how it goes then.

It just looks a bit too stocky and far too chunky to work as a serious weapon. Oh well, sketching will continue!