Vehicle Design: Rough Process

Here is another little insight into the rough process or very beginning of creating a vehicle. In this particular instance, it's a sort of prisoner transport craft with an unfolding chassis prison cabin.

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Rough Process; C.C. Cooper

Update on the fly (Fri, Aug 27, 2010): Recently, I discovered the wonderful work of the smashingly talented Taylor Krahenbuhl: Just wow!

Images © by Taylor Krahenbuhl

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Here's is a little update (Tue, Aug 24, 2010): Charley Parker did a lovely post about one of my favorite impressionist painters: Colin Campell Cooper. I'm fascinated by his street scenes and skyscrapers of New York and Philadelphia.

Images: Wikimedia 1 2

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This is another rough "beak an' ride" concept piece which I did sometime earlier this year in parallel with that motor-suit piece.

The inspiration came, partly, from here:

Image: Modern Mechanix

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Sorry About The Lack Of Updates Lately...

I'm quite busy on a number of different things here. I'll catch you later. BTW, here are some recently done rough sketches...

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Paper Ladder

There's not much to say about this one except that I use lines of action like twisted stave lines of sorts.

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Parcours

For me, fun is still a high priority.

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Telephone Doodle Smoke

Well, this piece is quite a bit strange, isn't it?

The story behind this piece is that last week, my students and I were exploring the bone structure/locomotory system of elephants and were watching the Disney short 'Goliath II' and became totally lost in designing characters from those references. The funny legged monsters (below on the right) are btw by the talented Dustin Schiele. Great abstraction on the theme, love it.

For the most beautiful elephant designs on this very planet please go over here, Andrew's talent is high at the highest levels.

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The Elephant With A Beak

Well, unsurprisingly for me, the elephant got a beak.

However, surprisingly, no motorpunk device or thing anywhere. Apropos deformation, look what Andrei did on the Wolfman! Holy moly!

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Motor-Owl

Some things become very popular only to fall out of bird's favour later.

Btw, apologies for the lack of replies to comments and mails, been some really hectic and busy days here lately.

Photos: Mini-Motor (2), Photobucket (1)

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The Inner Workings of The XR-3000 Z (or why the butterfly became a jetbug)

This is a follow to the last post: May I introduce Mr. Drummond to you? He loves btw hiding in letterboxes, too.

This work-in-progress chart I put together for my recent posting at The Art Center blog:

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Here is an update in order to put us all in the right mood for the Nemoland event 2010 in Florence, Italy: Here is a brilliantly hand-drawn Rolo commerical from the mid-80s animated by this year's Nemoland honoree Eric Goldberg (I'll be there too, to host a workshop but principally to marvel at Eric Goldberg's talks and workshops):

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The ACME Corp.'s Super Mind's Eye XR-3000 Z Delta Bravo (or the way how I look at things)

I felt like putting up a new blog header. Of course with a (typical of me) "built-in" reference to Ria Irvin's Eustace Tilley (The New Yorker magazine's iconic corporate character). This here started btw as a scratchy piece I picked out of a pile of StarDucks ballpoint test sketches.

When I come to consider it, my machines - all of them - have a strong reference to André Franquin's mad vehicles and machines...

This fake cover can fall in the category "The Duckish Face of Eustace Tilley":

This is more adequate, I guess:

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Inspiration: Jet Pack

Oh boy, I want one of those! I'll show you why with my next update here.

Update
Here's the signalized update. It wasn't the shape of the jet pack, but a sort of tune or feel that inspired the design below:

Furthermore, this horse skull was a quite useful reference, both for textures and shape. Even you can't see the horse skull in the final drawing, it's there...

Image: Wikimedia

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