Doodling

A few breakfast doodles before heading up to LA for some meetings.

Ceramic cutlery set for this week’s weekly design challenge… the texture of these kinda geometrical highlights just happened by accident and I dig it!
Then I draw some sort of Mini but using only my memory, definitely cars are not my thing but really fun to do! For the sideview tried 3 wheels distance but seemed too long and instead of trying 2,5 wheels, went directly to 2 and looks completely odd… have a nice weekend everyone!


Nice work, Rodrigo! Keep them coming!

Thanks yo! I’m committed to start sketching everyday and focusing on improvement… in this case, haven’t watched any tutorial for car drawing just keep using memory, imagination and some image references to see how far/bad/good can I get.


Messing with proportions, views, shading and of course screwing up ellipses in perspective :unamused:



adding a little digital shading overtop of this sketchbook doodle

When I was in college in the 90’s I wanted a Nissan Pulsar NX wagon :slight_smile:

I remember those… Nice sketch Yo, I dig the stripe taillights.

Haven’t seen much of March of robots… here’s some roborace madness!

Thanks, always loved the original Pulsar NX tail lamps that were all diagonal stripes.

I totally slacked on March of Robots this year! Thanks for posting some.

A quick task chair doodle between conference calls. You know when you have that 30 minutes between meetings that aren’t really enough time to get back into what you were working on, or start something new? Time for a doodle.

Still doing some weird scenarios and characters… and a little bit of Akira! Saw it yesterday and it was awesomly interesting…


Just a random doodle before leaving the house for a design review :slight_smile:

something I found on my hard drive from 2016…

Boarding gate wait to Helsinki got me an Aalto (clichè) vibe and a dumb hot glue gun perspectives…

In the future I wonder if fully autonomous vehicles will have any screens or if they will be strictly BYOD (bring your own device). We have been working on projects with both solutions in the studio and I suppose the answer is based on the intended use cases for the vehicle… I also think we could see a return to bench seats but that is another story.

Is that going to be industry-driven or user-driven? I haven’t really seen a direction really stand out yet. I’ve noticed on United flights, it’s BYOD unless you wanna pay for DirectTV. On the other hand, on American, they’ve updated the screens to make them touchscreens. As a user myself, I’m pretty much BYOD because I can control whatever I watch. But I can totally see the industry wanting full control of the interfaces themselves, since they wouldn’t have to deal with all the different kinds of devices people have.


On an unrelated topic… got inspired by Weekly Design Challenge to draw something up, albeit somewhat late.

nice! That is defiantly one of the best entrants I saw into the hot glue gun challenge!

On the BYOD tip, I think it will probably depend. On some of the more econo, large capacity autonomous vehicles, I’m sure cost will be a driving factor, and the fact that you might be riding with a group of strangers dictates it will probably be BYOD only. If you are renting a more premium autonomous car for a 2-4 hour family jaunt, I could see how having a giant screen and maybe content streaming from your phone would be nice (the way we stream audio now). If you owned the autonomous vehicle, then maybe you would just give it your netflix/hulu/whatever passwords… but I wouldn’t be logging into my netflix account from the equivalent of a greyhound bus :slight_smile:

I recently had a flight with Norwegian Airlines ( I do not take planes often) and it surprised me that BYOD approach that Michael states. In order to view content, you first had to connect your device to the aircraft WiFi and then through their website, you could surf the available movies, music, etc and of course there was some premium content that you have to pay for it. Maybe this is better for multiple reasons instead of putting tactile screen that might come obsolete fast and has a probably high maintenance cost. Anyway, some vase doodles and a Jean Prouvè chair 300 inspired technical doodles… btw I ran out of pages but still had the mood on haha

Rodrigo,

Yes, BTOD is becoming pretty standard on airlines… and it makes sense. Why pay for inferior screens in every seat when most every passenger has their own screen (or screens, I usually travel with phone, iPad, and laptop.)… then you only need to provide WiFi.

I’m happy to see you keeping up the frequency of you sketching! Keep at it! Draw through exercises like that chair are particularly good. Try putting a clean sheet over top and tracing it up with some clean line work.