Gmay3's Sketching Journey

Great job tackling this aerodynamic territory! Even when drawing people these days I still draw in a basic skeleton/block foundation. I imagine with cars it’s the easiest thing to do compared to the rest of the car. At least you’ll have proportions going for you and people can critique the rest!

Great ideas about overlays and using a light box, I didn’t try this on these but I’ll give it a shot for the next round! Thank you all!

Gerry, would you mind if I overlay one of these to help with perspective and proportion?

I wouldn’t mind at all Michael, thank you!

All right cool. I did a screen capture of an overlay. I’m going to record a voice over for it tonight when I get home from this client workshop I’m running today…so you will have a good step by step on what I did. Maybe I’ll start a tutorial Tuesday series.

That’s awesome! Thank you, I’m looking forward to it.

Allright Gerry, I dropped a VO on this over lunch. I hope this helps a little bit. This video mainly covers proportions and a bit on shading. One thing I didn’t talk about is line quality. Getting those predictable, repeatable, dynamic lines down is so important.Once you train yourself to be able to put down some controlled arcs with nice line quality, it is just a matter of rotating the page and controlling the length/position of the lines… easy to write, hard to do, it will take years of practice, but that is the same with anything.

Whoa this is so awesome, thanks so much!

I really like how you added a bit of perspective in the wheels, I can see how that helps a lot. As a beginner car sketcher, seeing the order of your lines is also really helpful. I’ll definitely be checking back at this and reviewing it as I get a bit deeper into shading. I think I’ll use your video to do some overlays to some of the other side views I posted to make sure I get that down.

Huge thanks Michael! Looking forward to the next Tutorial Tuesday.

No problem. Here are a few of the key moments as well:





Working on some cast shadows and hopefully more accurate line work. Using a pencil is helping a bunch to slow things down.

I’ve been working on my linework and shadows a bit and I’m finding that using a C1 marker as a rough underlay is helping a lot. I’m excited for the IDSA Midwest Conference this weekend at UIC, hope to see come Core77 folks there! :slight_smile:

I’m going to be posting some images from the ADS (Advanced Design Sketching) Summer Sketch Workshop, it was an 8 week course which was really helpful. I would definitely appreciate any feedback!

For these sketches I was focusing on the design language word “Aerodynamic” and I took some inspiration from some Star Wars / Marvel and other sci-fi helmets to practice some digital sketching :slight_smile:

Hi Gary,
I can definitely see that the workshop helped you a lot. Keep up the good work and keep practicing.

Thanks a lot FH13! I will do!

Here are a few more sketches from the workshop, these were focusing on mixing cold materials like metal or ceramic with warm materials like wood or cork. We were also focusing on rendering these materials for easy readability.

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A few more microphones from the workshop!

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this thread actually popped up for me in a random google search (kind of amazing). I just scanned through it and I just want to applaud the amount of work @gmay3able, the original poster, put in here!

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Hey thanks Michael!! :slight_smile: This was such fun period of intense sketch study and it really happened because of everyone’s generosity to share their knowledge with me, that really kept me going. I’m really still amazed at the sharing culture of designers and I try to pay this forward when I can. This sketch journey really set me up to keep the pace of learning intense which served me well to push as far as in could in design school. It was so cool to get to meet you and Patrick Bowers (aka PB) in person over the years in Chicago for different design events after all of your help during this sketch journey :slight_smile:

Since my last post, I had a great opportunity to be a summer ID intern with Rotimi Solola of SO Dsgn where I learned a ton, finished my final year at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Master of Design in Industrial Design (MDes) program and started working at TEAMS Design Chicago. I’ve recently tapped into my electrical engineering past to bring those skills to help our design concepts at TEAMS come to life by designing and building functional electronics into them to really test them out properly. Recently, I’ve also started a little hobby experimental design brand called MODULE! labs which is a product brand selling 3D printed items for synthesizers and I hope to expand into new areas of offering mechanical watch service / restoration and synthesizer / electronic instrument design.

Ok ok enough updates from me, now here’s a few semi-recent sketches :slight_smile:




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Awesome to hear you are doing well! I saw some of that synth stuff on IG! Feel free to post in here!

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Look how far you’ve come!

I love that @_YO brought this feed back up. Blast from the past.

…but seriously, scrolling through from the very first comment its incredible to visually see your journey! Well done. :slight_smile:

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Really fun to see and what a great example of how to effectively use the community!

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